Devon v. City of San Antonio

OPINION

HALL, Justice.

Article 6243f, Vernon’s Ann.Texas Civil Statutes, creates and controls the funding and administration of a firemen and policemen’s pension fund in cities of 550,000 to 650,000 inhabitants. We are concerned in this case with questions of construction and constitutionality of that statute, and will refer to it as the Act.

Section 4 of the Act provides that any city to which it applies “shall” deduct for the pension fund from the wages of each fireman and policeman in the employment of the city a sum equal to a set percentage of the base pay of a private. The city is then…