Section 20572.

(a) If a contracting agency fails for 30 days after demand by the board to pay any installment of contributions required by its contract, or fails for three months after demand by the board therefor to file any information required in the administration of this system with respect to that agency's employees, or if the board determines that the agency is no longer in existence, the board may terminate that contract by resolution adopted by a majority vote of its members effective 60 days after notice of its adoption has been mailed by registered mail to the governing body of the contracting agency.

(b)  Notwithstanding Section 20537, if a contracting agency fails to remit the contributions when due, the agency may be assessed interest at an annual rate of 10 percent and the costs of collection, including reasonable legal fees, when necessary to collect the amounts due. In the case of repeated delinquencies, the contracting agency may be assessed a penalty of 10 percent of the delinquent amount. That penalty may be assessed once during each 30-day period that the amount remains unpaid.

(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 462, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)