The legislative purpose of this enactment is to enable this state, its agencies and political subdivisions, and political subdivisions of counties and municipalities to pick-up and pay the contributions which their employees are by law required to make to the respective retirement system in which the public employee is a member.
This article shall apply to all retirement plans for employees sponsored by any public employer in this state. This article shall, on and after July 1, 1986, be read in pari materia and harmonized with the provisions of this code creating any retirement system for public employees.
The following words and phrases as used in this article, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context, have the following meanings: (1) "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all amounts credited to a member's individual account in the member's deposit fund and includes both contributions deducted from the compensation of a member […]
(a) The State of West Virginia for its public employees and county boards of education for its teachers shall pick-up and pay the contributions which the employees are required by law to make to the retirement system in which they are a member for all compensation earned by its member employees after June 30, 1986. […]
In enacting this article, it is the intent of the Legislature that the retirement plan created pursuant to this article and those created pursuant to article ten of this chapter; article fourteen-d, chapter seven of this code; article twenty-two-a, chapter eight of this code; article two, chapter fifteen of this code; article seven-a, chapter eighteen […]
