Amounts payable by a unit of local government which has entered into an agreement with any of its employees under which the employee agrees to take a reduction in salary in return for the public entity's agreement to use a corresponding amount to purchase for the employee an annuity meeting the requirements of section 403(b) of the federal Internal Revenue Code for a pay period shall be transmitted and credited not later than the fifth business day after the date on which the employee is paid for that pay period.
N.J.S. § 40A:9-17.2