§ 323. Employers' contributions and their use; pension accumulation\nfund. a. Except as otherwise provided pursuant to this article, the\npension accumulation fund shall be the fund in which shall be\naccumulated:\n 1. All contributions made by employers, and\n 2. All income received from the investments of the police and fire\nretirement system, and\n 3. All monies received from all other sources and which are not\nrequired to be credited to any other fund.\n b. Each employer shall make three contributions annually. They shall\nbe known as the normal contribution, the deficiency contribution, and\nthe administration contribution. The rates thereof shall be computed by\nthe actuary.\n 1. Normal contribution. The rate of such contribution shall be applied\nto the members' annual compensation earned during the previous fiscal\nyear. Such rate shall be a uniform and constant rate per centum of\nannual compensation. When applied to the compensation of the average new\nentrant during the remaining period of his or her membership, such rate\nshall be computed to be sufficient to provide all the benefits, other\nthan those on account of prior service, granted by this article and\nwhich are payable from funds contributed to the pension accumulation\nfund.\n Such rate shall be computed each year by means of an actuarial\nvaluation as prescribed in section three hundred eleven of this article\nand as authorized by section three hundred twenty-three-a of this title.\n 2. Deficiency contribution.\n (a) In the case of employers who were participating in the state\nemployees' retirement system on March thirty-first, nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven, the rate of such contribution shall continue to be the rate\ndetermined for such participating employer pursuant to law. Such rate\nmay be varied, however, if an adjustment is necessitated by reason of\nthe allowance of additional prior service credits.\n (b) In the case of an employer who elects to participate in the police\nand fire retirement system on or after April first, nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven and before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine,\nan initial actuarial valuation shall be made to determine the accrued\nliability of such employer by reason of the prior service of those of\nits employees who are members of the retirement system. The rate of\ndeficiency contribution for such employer shall then be determined. Such\nrate shall be that proportion of the total annual compensation of such\nemployees as is equivalent to four per centum of such accrued liability.\nSuch rate shall be applied to the employer's payroll of members, as used\nin the annual valuation. The cost of making such initial valuation shall\nbe assessed against and paid by such employer.\n Notwithstanding the above, for employers who commence participation in\nthe retirement system on or after April first, nineteen hundred\nninety-nine, the accrued liability shall be amortized in equal annual\ninstallments over a twenty-five year period. With respect to such\nemployers the cost of making such initial valuation shall be assessed\nagainst and paid by the employer. The provisions of subdivisions c, d\nand e of this section shall not apply to employers who commence\nparticipation in the retirement system on or after April first, nineteen\nhundred ninety-nine.\n (c) The amount of each annual deficiency contribution payable by every\nemployer shall be at least three per centum greater than the amount for\nthe preceding year.\n (d) The comptroller shall approve the discontinuance of the state's\ndeficiency contribution on account of members employed by it when:\n (1) The total amount in the pension accumulation fund on account of\nall members, and\n (2) The present value of future deficiency contributions still to be\npaid by other employers, and\n (3) The present value of future normal contributions, on the basis of\nthe rate of normal contribution then in effect, shall equal the then\npresent v
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