There is hereby created effective July 26, 1950, an "Assessors' Retirement Fund" for all parishes of the state of Louisiana, and a public corporation to be known as the "Board of Trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund" for the assessors and assessors' employees throughout the state of Louisiana, which corporation shall be vested with the power to administer the fund herewith provided for, to sue and be sued, to buy and sell securities for investment of the surplus monies of said fund, to allot disability payments and retirement allowances as hereinafter set forth.
La. Consolidated Public Retirement § 11:1401