Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 58 - RETIREMENT
Part XVII - Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System
Chapter 2 - Internal Revenue Code Provisions
Section XVII-205 - General

A. The assets of this system's pension plan shall be held for the exclusive benefit of the employees who are or become participating members of the system and their survivors and beneficiaries, and of retirees and their survivors and beneficiaries. No part of the corpus, the system's pension plan assets held in trust, or income of the system's pension plan shall be used for or diverted to purposes other than the exclusive benefit of such members and retirees, or their survivors or beneficiaries, whether by operation or natural termination of the system's pension plan, by power of revocation or amendment, by the happening of a contingency, by collateral assignment, or by any other means.

B. The retirement benefit earned by a member shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable no later than the date he becomes eligible to retire. Benefits of affected members shall also become vested and nonforfeitable to the extent funded, upon the termination or partial termination of the system's pension plan or the complete discontinuance of contributions thereto.

C. Forfeitures resulting from a termination of employment or a withdrawal of a member's own contributions may not be used to increase benefits to remaining members. This shall not preclude an increase in benefits by amendment to the benefit formula made possible by favorable investment results or for any other reason.