Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 11, § 3635. Payment by city to fund

A. The City of New Orleans shall pay to the board, in monthly installments, the sum certified by the board necessary to cover disbursements, expenditures and payments of pensions and benefits under this Subpart. The board shall each year prepare and confect a budget of its anticipated and estimated revenues, receipts, and disbursements for the ensuing year. Upon the basis of the budget, the board shall certify to the commission council the amount which will be necessary to pay all pensions and benefits under this Subpart, and expenditures necessary in its operation and administration for the ensuing year. Upon the submission of this budget, the commission council shall budget and appropriate the amount certified by the board. Any surplus from any year's operation shall be credited towards the succeeding year's appropriation. The estimate shall include the amount equal to any deficit of the preceding year in addition to the amount necessary for the operation of the fund for the current year. Any securities or other assets belonging to the fund on July 28, 1949, shall not be included as revenue, surplus, or receipts in estimating the budget for any year, but the interest on any securities or other assets shall be considered as revenue in preparing the annual budget.

B. If, at any time, there are not sufficient funds in the police pension fund to pay the persons entitled to the benefits provided in this Subpart, the City of New Orleans, shall budget, appropriate, and pay to the fund, the amount of the existing deficit.