The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195?, March 01, 1945, Page 30, Image 30

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THE RETIREMENT ACT
(Continued from Page 27)
(3) All funds paid into the fund shall be
deposited with the state treasurer, who
shall be custodian of the fund and pay all
warrants drawn on it in compliance with
the law. No such warrant shall be paid
until the claim for which it is drawn is
first approved by the executive secretary
and otherwise audited and verified as re­
quired by law.
(4) With the approval of the board and
subject to the limitations in the laws of the
state, the state bond commission may in­
vest any part of the fund.
(5) The board shall provide for an an­
nual audit of the retirement fund and for
an annual report to the members of, and
employers participating in, the system.
Section 11. (1) The administrative ex­
penses of the system shall be paid from
the contributions which this act requires
the members of the system and the em­
ployers participating in it to pay into the
public employes retirement fund.
(2) In order to facilitate financing the
establishment and administration of the
system the board may designate fiscal per­
iods and may provide that extraordinary
expenses incurred during one such period,
such as expenses for equipment and actu­
arial studies, may, for purposes of equitably
distributing part of the burden of the ex­
penses to members who join and employers
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who begin to participate in the system after
the expenses are incurred, be apportioned
to subsequent fiscal periods in such a man­
ner as to the boards seems equitable.
(3) For each fiscal period designated by
the board there shall be deducted from the
account of each member of, and each em­
ployer participating in, the system that
fraction of the administrative expense of
the system for that period which the mem­
ber’s or employer’s total contribution to
the fund for the period is of the sum of all
the members’ and employers” contributions
to the fund for the period.
Section 12. A working fund for the sys­
tem is hereby established from which, pend­
ing the time that the funds in the public
employes retirement fund are sufficient to
carry out the provisions of this act, funds
may be drawn to defray the expenses which
the board deems necessary to acquire
equipment, make actuarial studies, employ
personnel, and take other steps necessary
to establish the system and begin operating
it. Whenever, in the judgment of the gov­
ernor and either the board of the executive
secretary, it becomes necessary for any of
those purposes to meet demands payable
from the working fund, they may certify to
the secretary of state and the state treas­
urer that in their judgment it is necessary
to borrow a specified sum for that purpose
from funds in the general fund of the state
treasury not otherwise appropriated. Upon
receiving the certificate the secretary and
treasurer shall credit to the working fund,
as an appropriation from funds in the gen­
eral fund not required for immediate dis­
bursement, the sum so cerified, which shall
be repaid to the general fund by the end of
1946, together with interest thereon at the
rate which the secretary and treasurer spe­
cify, but not exceeding 4 per cent per an­
num. For the purpose of making such funds
available for the working fund there is
hereby appropriated fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) from funds in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
Section 13. At least once every four years
the board shall cause a competent actuary
familiar with public systems of retirement
and death benefits to prepare a report
evaluating the current and prospective as­
sets and liabilities of the system and indi­
cating its current and prospective financial
condition. In preparing the report the ac­
tuary shall investigate the mortality, dis-
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