The Public Employees’ Deferred Compensation Fund is hereby established. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may:
(a) Establish one or more accounts, trusts, group trusts, or similar vehicles within the fund.
(b) Retain a bank, trust company, or similar entity to serve as repository of the fund, or of any account, trust, group trust, or other similar vehicle within the fund.
The board may also retain a bank or trust company to serve as a custodian for safekeeping, recordkeeping, delivery, securities valuation, investment performance reporting, or other services in connection with investment of the fund or of any account, trust, group trust, or similar vehicle within the fund.
Notwithstanding Section 13340, all moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 639, Sec. 13. (SB 1139) Effective January 1, 2011.)