(1) The following terms as used in this section shall have the meanings set forth below, viz.:
(a) The term "person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or institution, including banks chartered under state or national laws;
(b) The term "public bodies" shall mean the State of South Carolina, any county of the State, any incorporated city or town in the State, and any division or political subdivision of the State;
(c) The term "public agency" shall mean any authority, board, commission, governing body, any department of any of the foregoing and any public officer acting in an official capacity and performing functions committed by law, for any public body;
(d) "The International Bank" means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the African Development Bank, or the Asian Development Bank, each of which is an international institution, the members of which are governments of certain nations of the world including the government of the United States, and which was established and is operating under articles of agreement signed by those governments;
(e) The term "pension funds" shall mean pension funds established by public bodies and which are administered by persons or public agencies.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, public agencies may invest pension funds in obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the International Bank.
(3) Such obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the International Bank shall be eligible as deposits of collateral, as security for the deposit of public funds, and for all other types of deposits to be made with any public agency.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-64; 1955 (49) 195; 1972 (57) 2584; 1990 Act No. 314, Section 1.