(a) The board of trustees shall keep, or cause to be kept, such data as shall be necessary for the preparation of mortality, service and retirement tables and for the compilation of such other data as shall be required for an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement system.
(b) Beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty-six, and in each five-year period thereafter, the actuary shall make actuarial investigations into the experiences of the members, retirants and beneficiaries of the retirement system. Based upon such investigations, the board of trustees shall adopt for the system rates of mortality, withdrawal from service, superannuation retirement and disability retirement and salary scales for final average salary.
(c) Beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty-two, and at least once in each three-year period thereafter, the actuary shall make an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the retirement system: Provided, That until the first actuarial investigations are made, the valuations shall be based upon decrement assumptions which are, in the opinion of the actuary, applicable to the members, retirants and beneficiaries of the system.
(d) Beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty-two, the actuary shall annually compute the annuity reserve liabilities for annuities being paid retirants and beneficiaries.
(e) The board shall specify and adopt all actuarial assumptions for the system at its first meeting of every calendar year or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, which assumptions shall become part of the terms of the system.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 10. West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act
§5-10-3. Retirement System Created and Established; Body Corporate
§5-10-4. Effective Date of System
§5-10-5. Board of Trustees Created; Powers and Duties Generally; Composition
§5-10-6. Trustees' Terms of Office
§5-10-8. Trustees' Compensation and Expenses
§5-10-10. Board Meetings; Quorum; Vote; Proceedings
§5-10-11. Reports Required of Board
§5-10-12. Officer and Employee Bonds
§5-10-13. Actuarial Investigations and Valuations; Specification of Actuarial Assumptions
§5-10-14. Service Credit; Retroactive Provisions
§5-10-15. Military Service Credit; Qualified Military Service
§5-10-15b. Credit for Public Employment in Another State
§5-10-15c. Military Service Credit for Members of the West Virginia National Guard
§5-10-16. When and How Political Subdivision Becomes Participating Public Employer
§5-10-17. Retirement System Membership
§5-10-18. Termination of Membership; Reentry
§5-10-19. Employers to File Information as to Employees Service
§5-10-20. Voluntary Retirement
§5-10-21. Deferred Retirement and Early Retirement
§5-10-21a. Deferred Retirement and Early Retirement for New Members as of July 1, 2015
§5-10-22a. Supplemental Benefits for Certain Annuitants
§5-10-22b. Supplemental Benefits for Certain Annuitants
§5-10-22d. Supplemental Benefits for Certain Annuitants
§5-10-22g. One-Time Supplement for Certain Annuitants Effective July 1, 2001
§5-10-22h. Limitations on Benefit Increases
§5-10-22i. One-Time Supplement for Certain Annuitants Effective July 1, 2006
§5-10-22j. One-Time Bonus Payment for Certain Annuitants Effective July 1, 2008
§5-10-22k. One-Time Bonus Payment for Certain Annuitants Effective July 1, 2011
§5-10-22l. Minimum Benefit for Certain Retirants
§5-10-23. Terminal Payment Following Retirement
§5-10-25. Disability Retirement
§5-10-26. Reexamination of Disability Retirants; Reemployment; Adjustment of Annuity for Earnings
§5-10-27. Preretirement Death Annuities
§5-10-27a. Federal Law Maximum Benefit Limitations
§5-10-27b. Federal Law Minimum Required Distributions
§5-10-27d. Rollovers and Transfers to Purchase Service Credit Or
§5-10-28. Unified Accounting; Funds
§5-10-29. Members' Deposit Fund; Members' Contributions; Forfeitures
§5-10-30. Refund of Accumulated Contributions
§5-10-31. Employers Accumulation Fund; Employers Contributions
§5-10-34. Transfers to Retirement Reserve Fund
§5-10-35. Retirement Reserve Fund Created; Transfers From Fund on Reemployment
§5-10-39. No Trustee, etc., Shall Gain From Investments of System
§5-10-40. Restricted Use of Retirement System Moneys
§5-10-41. Allowance of Regular Interest on Balances in Funds
§5-10-42. Fiscal or Plan Year of Retirement System
§5-10-43. Pro Rata Reduction of Annuities
§5-10-44. Correction of Errors; Underpayments; Overpayments
§5-10-47. Benefits Exempt From Taxes
§5-10-48. Reemployment After Retirement; Options for Holder of Elected Public Office