A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, employers shall make payment of the required matching amount as provided by Section 5 of this act within five (5) business days of the participating employee's payroll pay date. The System shall ensure the payment is credited to the defined contribution system account or accounts maintained on behalf of the participating employee as soon as possible.

B. All employee contributions to the defined contribution system shall be effected by salary deductions from the salary of the employee and shall be remitted by the participating employer to the System for deposit into the defined contribution system account or accounts maintained on behalf of the employee.

C. Participating employers whose salary deductions and employer contributions are not remitted to the System through the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall either:

1. Send all such remittances by electronic funds transfer; or

2. Place all such remittances in a bank account from which OPERS can debit the amount due,

both within five (5) business days of the payroll pay date of the participating employee. Payroll data shall be remitted by the same deadline.

D. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall cooperate with the Board to ensure that any necessary programming changes are made to the state's payroll system to carry out the requirements of this act.

E. Each employer which has employees participating in the defined contribution system shall pay to the System in the same manner and at the same time required for contributions under this section an amount to reimburse the cost of administration of the defined contribution system, as determined by the Board.

1. The Board shall certify each year to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and to participating employers whose salary deductions and employer contributions are not remitted to the System through the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, the determined amount for the administrative cost of the defined contribution system which will be required to be paid for each participant. The Board shall promulgate such rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection and provide the methodology for the determination.

2. Each employer shall pay at least monthly to the System the sum sufficient to satisfy the obligation under this section as certified by the Board.

F. The funds held on behalf of each employee participating in the defined contribution system shall consist of the amount in the account or accounts plus credits representing employer and employee contributions, profits, income and other increments attributable to such contributions, and minus debits representing any losses, other decrements, or expenses under the system and any distributions made to the employee under the system.

Added by Laws 2014, c. 375, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.