The port commission must deduct 9% of members’ compensation from each payroll, and the employer must certify the deduction amounts to the board of trustees.
§3690. Method of financing A. Employee contributions. (1) The port commission shall make deductions from any salary or wages paid by them to any member of this plan equal to nine percent of the compensation paid him in each and every payroll. (2) The deductions provided for herein shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any member shall be reduced thereby. Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for herein and shall receipt for his full salary or compensation, and payment of salary or compensation less said deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment, except as to the benefits provided under this Subpart. The employer shall certify to the board of trustees on each and every payroll or in such other manner as the board may prescribe, the amounts to be deducted; and each of such amounts shall be deducted, and when deducted shall be paid into the Employees' Savings Account established in R.S. 11:532. B. Employer contributions. The port commission shall annually contribute an amount equal to the rate calculated pursuant to R.S. 11:102. Contributions shall be made monthly based on the same salary or wages used to calculate the members' contributions. C, D. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 648, §3, eff. July 1, 2015. E. Collections of contributions. The port commission shall cause to be deducted on each and every payroll of a member the contributions payable by such member as provided in this Subpart. Acts 1971, No. 80, §10, designated by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2008, No. 493, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 399, §1, eff. July 1, 2011; Acts 2014, No. 648, §§2, 3, eff. July 1, 2015.