19-20-605. Pension accumulation fund -- employer's contribution. The pension accumulation fund is the fund in which the reserves for payment of pensions and annuities must be accumulated and from which pensions, annuities, and benefits must be paid to or on account of beneficiaries credited with prior service. Contributions to and payments from the pension accumulation fund must be made as follows:
     (1) Each employer shall pay into the pension accumulation fund an amount equal to 7.47% of the earned compensation of each member employed during the whole or part of the preceding payroll period.
     (2) If the employer is a district or community college district, the trustees shall budget and pay for the employer's contribution under the provisions of 20-9-501.
     (3) If the employer is the superintendent of public instruction, a public institution of the state of Montana, a unit of the Montana university system, or the Montana state school for the deaf and blind, the legislature shall appropriate to the employer an adequate amount to allow the payment of the employer's contribution.
     (4) If the employer is a county, the county commissioners shall budget and pay for the employer's contribution in the manner provided by law for the adoption of a county budget and for payments under the budget.
     (5) All interest and other earnings realized on the money of the retirement system shall be credited to the pension accumulation fund, and the amount required to allow regular interest on the annuity savings fund shall be transferred to that fund from the pension accumulation fund.
     (6) All pensions, annuities, and benefits must be paid from the pension accumulation fund.
     (7) The retirement board may, in its discretion, transfer from the pension accumulation fund an amount necessary to cover expenses of administration.

     History: En. 75-6207 by Sec. 102, Ch. 5, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 57, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 422, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 507, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 26, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 127, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 331, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 443, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6207(4); amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 193, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 251, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 549, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 527, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 658, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 204, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 530, L. 1993; Sec. 19-4-605, MCA 1991; redes. 19-20-605 by Code Commissioner, 1993.