5.12.030 Exceptions.
The provisions of this Chapter are subject to the following exceptions:
A. Any officer or employee may, with the approval of his
Commissioner, assign his salary or wages to the Retail Credit Association of
Portland, Oregon;
B. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a City employee from
executing a power of Attorney to Portland Employees’ Credit Union, an
Oregon corporation, whereby the
salary or wages, or any part thereof, of the employee is assigned to the
corporation. The Auditor and Treasurer are hereby authorized to recognize
all of the powers of Attorney to make on the payrolls any deductions required
thereby, and to pay the Portland Employees’ Credit Union any sums authorized by
the powers of Attorney.
C. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a City employee from
executing a power of Attorney to the Firemen’s Relief Association of the
Firemen’s Beneficiary Association of Portland, an
Oregon corporation, or to the
Portland Police Beneficiary Association, an
Oregon corporation, whereby the
salary or wages, or any part thereof, of the employee is assigned to either of
said corporations. The Auditor and Treasurer are hereby authorized to
recognize all of the powers of Attorney.
5.12.050 Garnishments.
(Amended by Ordinance Nos. 146745, 154642, 155429 and 173369, effective May
12, 1999.) Whenever any salary, wage or credit in possession of the City,
belonging or owed to any person, firm or corporation whatsoever is garnished or
levied upon, subject to the City Attorney’s approval of the original garnishment
or levying documents, the Office of Fiscal Administration, Accounting Division,
shall thereafter process such garnishments as follows:
A. With respect to the garnishment of City employees’ salaries
of wages, the amount of garnishment shall be deducted from the employees’ salary
or wages as a voluntary deduction through the computer process. The total
amount of garnishment deducted for all employees whose wages are being garnished
shall be transmitted to the Treasurer’s Office account by an authorization
notice accompanied by a Garnishment Report in the form of a deduction
register. The Garnishment Report will document the name(s) of the payee(s)
according to the Notice of Levies or Writs of Garnishment received. The
Treasury Division will then draw one or more checks, depending on the number of
levies or writs received for each employee, against such office account in favor
of the payee designated on the Notice of Levy/Writ of Garnishment.
B. With respect to Notices of Levy or Writs of Garnishment not
affecting the salary or wages of a City employee and any Notice of Levy or Writs
of Garnishment received after the biweekly payroll cutoff, the procedure for
processing such Notices of Levy/Writs of Garnishment shall be as stated in this
Subsection. The Office of Fiscal Administration, Accounting Division,
shall place upon any check issued for such salary, wages or credit and an
endorsement:
1. Noting that such salary, wages or credit has been garnished
or levied upon as the case may be, together with identification of such
garnishment or levy;
2. Directing the payment of a certain sum upon such
garnishment or levy;
3. Designating the person entitled to receive such sum;
and
4. Directing the payment of the balance of money due on such
warrant, if any, to the payee thereof.
The Office of Fiscal Administration, Accounting Division, shall then
deliver such warrant to the Treasurer and the Treasurer shall deposit such
warrant to the account of the City and draw one or more checks against such
account in the amounts directed and in favor of the person or persons
designated by the endorsement upon such warrant.
