§8-22-15. Action by city required before new provisions are applicable.

Notwithstanding any provisions in sections two through fourteen of this article to the contrary, the provisions of said sections two through fourteen shall not be applicable to any fund established by any city prior to the effective date of this section, unless and until such city shall by ordinance provide for the application thereof. In the absence of any such ordinance, any such established fund shall be governed and controlled by and administered in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred fourteen, acts of the Legislature, regular session, 1947, and the amendments by (1) chapter ninety-two, acts of the Legislature, regular session, 1949, (2) chapter one hundred twenty-nine, acts of the Legislature, regular session, 1955, and (3) chapter thirty-nine, acts of the Legislature, regular session, 1968, if and only if an ordinance were adopted on and after May 8, 1968, and prior to the effective date of this section providing for the application of said chapter thirty-nine.