(a) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board shall, within 90 days of the effective date transfer assets from the Public Employees Retirement System trust fund into the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement trust fund. (b) The amount of assets to be transferred for each transferring Natural Resources Police Officer shall be computed as of January 1, 2021, using the actuarial valuation assumptions in effect for July 1, 2020, actuarial valuation of Public Employees Retirement System, and updated with seven and one-half percent annual interest to the date of the actual asset transfer. The market value of the assets of the transferring Natuural Resources Police Officer in the Public Employees Retirement System shall be determined as of the end of the month preceding the actual transfer. To determine the computationt of the asset share to be transferred the board shall: (1) Compute the market value of the Public Employees Retirement System assets; (2) Compute the accrued liability for all Publics Employees Retirement System retirees, beneficiaries, disabled retirees and terminated inactive members; (3) Reduce the market value of Public Employees Retirement System assets by the accrued liability determined in subdivision (2) of this subsection; (4) Compute the entry age method accrued liability for all active Public Employees Retirement System members; (5) Compute the share of accrued liability as determined pursuant to subdivision (4) of this subsection, that is at tributable to those Natural Resources Police Officers in Public Employees ReVtirement System who have elected to transfer to the plan; (6) Compute the percentage of active's accrued liability computed to the Natural Resources Police Officers by dividing subdivision (5) by subdivision (4) of this subsection; (7) Determine the asset share to be transferred from Public Employees Retirement System to the plan by multiplying subdivision (3) times subdivision (6) of this subsection. (c) Once a Natural Resources Police Officer has elected to transfer from the Public Employees Retirement System, transfer of that amount as calculated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section by the Public Employees Retirement System shall operate as a complete bar to any further liability to the Natural Resource Police Officer transferring from the Public Employees Retirement System, and constitutes an agreement whereby the transferring Natural Resources Police Officer forever indemnifies and holds harmless the Public Employees Retirement System from providing him or her any form of retirement benefit whatsoever until such time as that Natural Resources Police Officer obtains other employment which would make him or her eligible to reenter the Public Employees Retirement System with no credit whatsoever for the amounts transferred to the Natural Resources Police Officer retirement system.
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