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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="21-124" title_number="21" title_name="State Retirement and Pension System" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Administration">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer is the custodian of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the accumulation, annuity savings, and expense funds of the several systems; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the assets of the Board of Trustees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Retirement Agency shall make all payments from the accumulation, annuity savings, and expense funds of the several systems in accordance with regulations that the Board of Trustees adopts with the approval of the State Treasurer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer may make arrangements with one or more duly qualified banks or trust companies in this State, organized under the laws of this State or of the United States, for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>banking services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any other function that the State Treasurer considers necessary to safeguard physically the assets that the Board of Trustees manages.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may deposit any of the securities that the Board of Trustees purchases in vaults or in other safe depositories outside the office of the State Treasurer, whether or not in this State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall deliver to the Board of Trustees a safekeeping receipt that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>describes the securities that the State Treasurer deposits; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>is payable on demand and without conditions to the Board of Trustees, to any designated fund of the several systems that the Board of Trustees controls, or to the State Treasurer.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Board of Trustees shall keep on file any safekeeping receipt that the State Treasurer delivers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, to make disbursements, the State Treasurer may keep cash on deposit in one or more duly qualified banks or trust companies in this State that are organized under the laws of this State or of the United States.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>keep more than 10% of the total amount in the funds of the several systems on deposit as cash; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>keep cash that exceeds 25% of the paid–up capital and surplus of the bank or trust company in that bank or trust company.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
