2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 23 COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
23-2307 Retirement system; members; contribution; amount; county pay.

23-2307. Retirement system; members; contribution; amount; county pay.

Each employee who is a member of the retirement system shall pay to the county or have picked up by the county a sum equal to four and one-half percent of his or her compensation for each pay period. The county shall pick up the employee contributions required by this section for all compensation paid on or after January 1, 1985, and the contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining federal tax treatment under the Internal Revenue Code as defined in section 49-801.01, except that the county shall continue to withhold federal income taxes based upon these contributions until the Internal Revenue Service or the federal courts rule that, pursuant to section 414(h) of the code, these contributions shall not be included as gross income of the employee until such time as they are distributed or made available. The county shall pay these employee contributions from the same source of funds which is used in paying earnings to the employee. The county shall pick up these contributions by a compensation deduction through a reduction in the cash compensation of the employee. Employee contributions picked up shall be treated for all purposes of the County Employees Retirement Act in the same manner and to the extent as employee contributions made prior to the date picked up.

Source

Laws 1965, c. 94, § 7, p. 405;
Laws 1981, LB 459, § 1;
Laws 1984, LB 218, § 1;
Laws 1985, LB 347, § 4;
Laws 1991, LB 549, § 4;
Laws 1992, LB 1057, § 1;
Laws 1995, LB 574, § 31;
Laws 2001, LB 186, § 1;
Laws 2001, LB 408, § 1.