§5-10-3. Retirement system created and established; body corporate.

The West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System is hereby created and established to provide for the orderly retirements of employees, of the state and the other participating public employers, who become superannuated because of age or total and permanent disability, and to provide certain survivor benefits. The retirement system shall constitute a body corporate. All business of the system shall be transacted in the name of West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System.