South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System
Section 9-11-220. Contributions of employers.

(1) Commencing as of July 1, 1974, each employer shall contribute to the system seven and one-half percent of the compensation of Class One members in its employ and a percentage of compensation for all other members in its employ as provided pursuant to Section 9-11-225.
(2) In addition, the employer of a member who makes a special contribution pursuant to subsection (2), (3) or (4) of Section 9-11-210 to establish credit as Class Two service for credited service which would otherwise be Class One service or to establish credit for service not otherwise credited and an employer who makes a special contribution on behalf of a member pursuant to subsection (10) of Section 9-11-210 in lieu of a contribution pursuant to said subsection (2), (3) or (4) shall make a contribution with respect to such service, determined as follows:
(a) Reserved.
(b) If the special contribution is made pursuant to Section 9-11-210(3), the employer contribution shall be equal to two and one-half percent of the member's monthly rate of compensation at the time such special contribution is made multiplied by the number of months of credited service to be established as Class Two service, except that with respect to any such service rendered prior to July 1, 1974, and after the effective date of the employer's admission to the System such employer contribution shall be based on a rate of one and one-half percent of such compensation.
(c) If the special contribution is made pursuant to Section 9-11-210(4), the employer contribution shall be equal to a percentage of the member's monthly rate of compensation at the time such special contribution is made multiplied by the number of months of service for which credit is to be established. Such percentage shall be seven and one-half percent in the case of a Class One member and ten percent in the case of a Class Two member. The employer contribution required by this subsection shall be paid by the current employer.
The contributions payable by employers under this subsection (2) shall be paid in a lump sum or in installments over such period, not to exceed ten years, as the Board may, under uniform rules, determine.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-345; 1962 (52) 1933; 1974 (58) 2032; 1982 Act No. 367, Section 2; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 67Q, eff January 1, 2001; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt III, Section 28, eff July 1, 2012.

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 9 - Retirement Systems

Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System

Section 9-11-10. Definitions.

Section 9-11-15. Payments to beneficiaries may include payments to persons, trustees, and estates.

Section 9-11-20. System created; corporate powers; name; director.

Section 9-11-25. Retirement of probate judges.

Section 9-11-27. Magistrates' participation in the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System.

Section 9-11-30. The Board shall administer system; powers and duties.

Section 9-11-35. Confidentiality of member records.

Section 9-11-40. Application to become an employer under system; membership in system; classification of members; transfer of contributions and credited service to South Carolina Retirement System; continuation of membership in correlated systems.

Section 9-11-45. Employer may require members of local retirement system to become members of South Carolina Police Officers' Retirement System; maintenance of local system.

Section 9-11-48. Transfer of local retirement system for firefighters to state system.

Section 9-11-50. Establishing service credit by making payments into the system; reestablishment of service credits; employer payments; credit for unused sick leave; rules and regulations.

Section 9-11-60. Retirement allowances; retirement after age fifty-five; purchases of additional service credit.

Section 9-11-80. Retirement allowances; disability retirement; periodic reexaminations; discontinuation or reduction of allowances.

Section 9-11-90. Effect of restoring beneficiary to service; retirement after return to service.

Section 9-11-100. Members who stop police work may withdraw contributions.

Section 9-11-110. Lump sum paid in event of death.

Section 9-11-120. Preretirement Death Benefit Program; post-retirement death benefit payment.

Section 9-11-125. Death Benefit Plan.

Section 9-11-130. Survivor may elect to receive allowance for life in lieu of lump-sum payment.

Section 9-11-140. Accidental Death Benefit Program.

Section 9-11-150. Optional forms of retirement allowances.

Section 9-11-155. Compliance with Internal Revenue Code.

Section 9-11-160. Allowances paid monthly.

Section 9-11-170. Supplemental Allowance Program.

Section 9-11-175. Compliance with Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9).

Section 9-11-180. Department of Public Safety authorized to pay certain monies into system on behalf of active highway patrol member employees; use of such monies.

Section 9-11-190. Certain monies paid into system from state's general fund on behalf of active member employees; use of such monies.

Section 9-11-200. Certain monies may be paid into system by employers on behalf of active member employees; use of such monies.

Section 9-11-210. Contributions of members; employer to pay required member contributions on earnings after July 1, 1982; tax treatment; funding; retirement treatment.

Section 9-11-220. Contributions of employers.

Section 9-11-225. Employer and employee contribution rates.

Section 9-11-230. Contributions paid monthly; state funds may be withheld if records or money not received on time.

Section 9-11-260. Deposit of assets.

Section 9-11-265. Interest on member accounts.

Section 9-11-270. Allowances and other rights exempt from taxation and legal process; exceptions; assignment.

Section 9-11-280. Contracts with members are obligations of system only; rights of members upon termination of system or discontinuation of contributions.

Section 9-11-290. Property of system is exempt from state and local taxes.

Section 9-11-300. Increase in retirement allowances as of July 1, 1974.

Section 9-11-312. Retirement allowance adjustment.

Section 9-11-315. Beneficiaries receiving Medicaid (Title XIX) sponsored nursing home care; effect on benefits; exception.

Section 9-11-320. False statements and falsification of records.

Section 9-11-350. Compensation used to determine benefits to be subject to federal limitations.

Section 9-11-355. Compliance with USERRA.

Section 9-11-360. Compliance with Internal Revenue Code Section 415.

Section 9-11-510. South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System shall pay certain retirement allowances and death benefits; appropriations.

Section 9-11-520. Rights of participants on June 30, 1963 in service of political subdivisions not members of South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System.

Section 9-11-525. Increase in monthly benefits under Police Insurance and Annuity Fund.