Section 36-27-97
Board of Control's and employer's duties and responsibilities; board may notify employers withdrawn from participation of cost-of-living increases.
(a) The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-94 and 36-27-96 of this article, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer the percentum rates of earnable compensation of the members required to be paid to the retirement systems. Each employer of members of the Employees' Retirement System shall pay on account of the increases provided in Sections 36-27-94 and 36-27-96 in the same manner and from the same source of funds as provided in Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-24, it being the intent of the Legislature that the cost of providing the increases in Sections 36-27-94 and 36-27-96 of this article shall be distributed from all funds in proportion to the salaries paid therefrom for active members.
(b) The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System may notify any employer who participated in the Employees' Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation on May 13, 1993, that the cost-of-living increases provided by this article and Sections 36-27-87 through 36-27-93, are available to their retirees and beneficiaries provided the employer elects to fund the increase.
(Acts 1993, No. 93-604, p. 984, §§4, 5.)