2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement
RS 11:3439 - Fiscal affairs of the fund; investment

§3439. Fiscal affairs of the fund; investment

A. The board of trustees may at any time, after considering the probable current demands upon such fund, determine what portion of said fund may be safely withdrawn from the current cash account for Investment for revenue purposes, and having so determined, invest the same in the manner hereinafter authorized, and all proceedings of the board of trustees relating thereto shall be entered upon its records. Such investment shall be in:

(1) Interest bearing bonds of the United States of America or the state of Louisiana or the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.

(2) Federally insured banks or savings and loan associations.

(3) Industrial bonds.

(4) Utility bonds.

(5) Preferred securities.

(6) Railroad equipment trust certificates.

(7) First mortgage loans which shall be limited to ten percent of the issuing company's admitted assets.

(8) Real estate first mortgage loans on unencumbered real estate, which shall be limited to seventy-five percent of the appraised valuation of the real property.

(9) Bank certificates of deposit of any accredited state or federal bank operating in Louisiana provided full collateral is submitted and maintained by the city under the terms of its local fiscal agency agreement.

(10) Repurchase agreements.

(11) Securities of any accredited building and loan association or savings and loan association which is located in the state of Louisiana, provided such investment amount is fully insured by the federal government.

(12) Mutual funds which have official representatives domiciled in Louisiana.

(13) Common stocks of any major company which is fully solvent and/or registered on a major securities exchange.

B. The board may invest the permanent fund or any portion thereof in the name of the "Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund" in any of the above instruments or securities which the board deems prudent and advisable. The board shall have full power to diversify the investments of the funds, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so. The board shall have full power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which any of the funds created herein shall have been invested. The board shall manage the funds with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence, under the circumstances then prevailing, that a prudent man, acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.

Designated from Acts 1938, No. 222, §9 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.