Ala. Code § 36-26-15 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-15
Section 36-26-15 (Amended by Act 2026-574) Tests for Establishment of Employment Registers for Positions in Classified Service; Preferences for Veterans, Etc.; Cooperation of Board with Federal Government, Etc., in Establishing and Administering Standards of Personnel Qualifications, Pay Plans, Etc
Status: in_force

AMENDED BY ACT 2026-574, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2027. SEE ACT FOR REVISED LANGUAGE.

(a) The director shall conduct tests to establish employment registers for the various classes of positions in the classified service. The tests shall take into consideration elements of character, reputation, education, aptitude, experience, knowledge, skill, personality, physical fitness and other pertinent matters and may be written or oral or any other demonstration of fitness as the director may determine. For a promotion test, the qualifications shall include the requirement that an applicant be employed in a position in such class and for such length of time, as the director shall specify, subject to the rules. Public notice of the time, place and general scope of every test shall be given. The director, with the approval of the board, shall determine the qualifications for admission to any test. Admission to tests shall be open to all persons who appear to possess the required qualifications and may be lawfully appointed to a position in the class for which a list is to be established, and no fee shall be charged therefor. The director may, however, reject the application of any person for admission to a test or may strike the name of any person from a list or refuse to certify the name of any person on a list for a position if he finds that such person lacks any of the required qualifications or is physically unfit to perform effectively the duties of the position in which he seeks employment or is addicted to the habitual excessive use of drugs or intoxicating liquor or has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or guilty of any notoriously disgraceful conduct or has been dismissed from the public service for delinquency or has made a false statement of a material fact or practiced or attempted to practice any fraud or deception in his application or test or in attempting to secure appointment.

(b) All persons who have been honorably discharged from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard who have ever served in the armed forces of the United States at any time shall have five points added to any earned ratings in examination for entrance to the classified service. All persons who have ever served in the armed forces of the United States at any time who have been honorably discharged and who established by official records of the United States the present existence of a service-connected disability and because of disability are entitled to pension, compensation or disability allowance under existing laws and widows of such persons who shall have died in line of duty during any such period and widows of such persons who shall have been honorably discharged from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard and wives of such persons who shall have been honorably discharged from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard who, because of service-connected disability are not themselves qualified but whose wives are qualified, shall have 10 points added to any earned ratings. In entering upon registers the names of preference claimants entitled to five additional points, they will take the place to which their ratings entitle them on the register with nonveterans (the earned ratings augmented by the five points to which they are entitled) and will be certified when their ratings are reached. The name of a veteran with the augmented rating is entered ahead of the name of a nonveteran when their ratings are the same. The names of persons entitled to a 10-point preference, however, will be placed ahead of all others on the register with the same rating (ahead of veterans entitled to a five-point preference and nonveterans) and shall be then certified in the order of their augmented ratings. An appointing officer who passes over a veteran eligible and selects a nonveteran with the same or lower rating shall file with the director the reasons for so doing, which reasons will become a part of the veteran’s record but will not be made available to anyone other than the veteran himself, except in the discretion of the appointing officer. When reductions are being made in any part of the classified service, persons entitled to military preference in appointment shall be the last to be discharged or dropped or reduced in rank or salary if their record is good or if their efficiency rating is equal to that of any employee in competition with them who is retained in the service in their department.

(c) The board shall, in establishing and administering standards of personnel qualifications, pay plans and tests both for personnel now in place as well as that later employed, cooperate with and avail itself fully of the advice and assistance of the appointing authorities involved and of the federal government in those departments administered in whole or in part with federal funds.
Ala. Code § 36-20-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 20 / Section 36-20-6
Section 36-20-6 Fees
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-295, p. 544, §2, effective January 1, 2012.
Ala. Code § 36-27-181 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-181
Section 36-27-181 Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employers Elects to Come Under Provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Commencing October 1, 2002, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2001, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System, may receive a cost-of-living increase determined by the provisions used in Section 36-27-180, if the employer elects to come under this article. Any employer making the election to come under the article shall bear the cost of the cost-of-living increases paid to its employees pursuant to this section. Any employer participating under Section 36-27-6, may elect to come under this article at any time and have the article become effective on October 1, 2002, or on October 1 of any subsequent fiscal year and the employer shall not be required to pay this cost-of-living increase retroactively unless the employer elects to fund the increase.

(b) If the employer elects to come under this article, beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees retired from an employer participating in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, shall receive the same cost-of-living increase provided in Section 36-27-180, but not less than fifteen dollars ($15) per month.
Ala. Code § 36-6-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-7
Section 36-6-7 Applicability of Provisions of Sections 36-6-5 and 36-6-6
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 36-6-5 and 36-6-6 shall not apply to the salary of the State Health Officer, the State Mental Health Officer, the Director of Industrial Relations, the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts, the Director of the Alabama State Port Authority, nor the executive non-merit level employees of the port authority appointed pursuant to subdivision (2) of Section 33-1-3.
Ala. Code § 36-22-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-6
Section 36-22-6 Payment of Expenses of Special Investigations; When Investigations to Be Instituted by County Solicitors
Status: in_force

(a) The expense of a special investigation when ordered as provided in Section 36-22-5 shall be paid from the county treasury, upon a warrant properly drawn. After the report is made, the sheriff shall file with the county commission a detailed sworn statement of his expenses accompanied by the written approval of the officer directing the investigations, and the county commission shall audit and allow only so much thereof as it shall find reasonably necessary unless it is approved by the Governor or Attorney General, in which event they shall allow the amount approved. The allowed expenses must be paid in each case from the county treasury upon a warrant drawn according to law.

(b) Every district attorney shall direct the sheriff to make an investigation and report as provided in Section 36-22-5 when a written request to that effect setting forth the alleged violation of the law is presented to him signed by 25 reputable citizens of the county.
Ala. Code § 36-29-19.5 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29 / Section 36-29-19.5
Section 36-29-19.5 Premium Deductions Shall Be Pretax; Transfer of Funds
Status: in_force

Employee’s contribution to the health insurance premium shall be deducted from payroll on a pretax basis as permitted under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. The board is authorized to transfer the necessary funds from the State Employees’ Insurance Fund to the fund established by the Flexible Employees Benefit Board for the administration of the flexible employees benefits program.
Ala. Code § 36-6-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-4
Section 36-6-4 Receipt of Additional Salary or Compensation from Funds of United States or Philanthropic Source
Status: in_force

Any public officer or employee may receive an additional salary or compensation from funds derived from the United States or any philanthropic source, except as otherwise specifically provided in this code.
Ala. Code § 36-29-8 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29 / Section 36-29-8
Section 36-29-8 Optional Inclusion by Persons Eligible for Coverage; Submission of False or Misleading Information
Status: in_force

(a) All persons in the employment of the State of Alabama who are eligible for coverage under the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations of the board adopted pursuant thereto shall have the option to be included in such coverage and shall have an option as to whether they will subscribe to such coverage for their dependents, such option to be exercised in the manner and within the time limitation prescribed by the board.

(b) All persons who become employees of the State of Alabama, as defined by the terms of this chapter and the rules and regulations promulgated by the board pursuant thereto, shall have the option to become members of the plan hereby provided and shall have an option as to whether they will subscribe to such coverage for their dependents; provided, that the exercise of such option shall be contingent upon acceptance by the board subject to proper documentation of eligibility and such coverage may be deferred during any reasonable waiting period provided in the contract or contracts.

(c) Any employee or retiree knowingly and willfully submitting materially false information to the board or engaging in fraudulent activity that causes financial harm to the plan, may, upon a determination by the board, (1) repay all claims and other expenses, including an interest charge based on the applicable interest rate paid by the state under Section 40-1-44, incurred by the plan related to the intentional submission of false or misleading information or fraudulent activity and (2) may be subject to disqualification from coverage under the plan.
Ala. Code § 36-7-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 7 / Section 36-7-3
Section 36-7-3 Advancement of Traveling Expenses of Municipal Officers or Employees — Adoption of Resolution by Governing Body Prior to Travel
Status: in_force

No sum shall be advanced from the treasury from any municipality or county in this state for the purpose of defraying the expenses of any officer or employee of such municipality or county while traveling or remaining beyond the limits of such municipality or county unless the same shall first be allowed by a resolution adopted by the governing body of such municipality or county, which said resolution shall state the purpose and object of such proposed visit.
Ala. Code § 36-5-61 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-61
Section 36-5-61 To Whom Application Addressed; Application to Be Sworn
Status: in_force

This application must be addressed to the official or to one of the officials required to approve such bond and must be sworn to.
Ala. Code § 36-26-106 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-106
Section 36-26-106 Transfer of Employee - Notice of Action
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-270, p. 494, §14, effective July 1, 2011.
Ala. Code § 36-23-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 23 / Section 36-23-2
Section 36-23-2 Filling of Vacancies Generally
Status: in_force

Vacancies in the office of constable shall be filled by appointment of the Governor, and the person appointed shall hold office for the unexpired term and until his successor is elected and qualified.
Ala. Code § 36-27-140 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-140
Section 36-27-140 Amount of Increase - Persons Other Than Persons Whose Employer Participated in Employees’ Retirement System
Status: in_force

(a) Commencing October 1, 1998, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1998, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase of not less than thirty dollars ($30) per month and the increase shall be more if determined by computing the sum of the following two factors:

(1) Four percent of the individual’s current gross monthly benefit, including all previous increases.

(2) Two dollars ($2) for each year of creditable service in covered employment prior to retirement.

Retirees who chose Option 2, 3, or 4 shall receive the cost-of-living increase reduced by the same percentage as the reduction which occurred because of the option selected unless the designated beneficiary under the option is deceased on July 1, 1998, in which case the increase shall not be reduced.

(b) Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees, except where the deceased member or deceased retiree retired from an employer participating in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, if the date of death for the deceased member, or the effective date of retirement for the deceased retiree for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1998, shall receive the cost-of-living increase in the amount attained by the retiree reduced by the retiree’s option election factor but the reduction shall not make the increase less than thirty dollars ($30) per month.
Ala. Code § 36-27-53.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-53.1
Section 36-27-53.1 Election by Certain Active Members Who Had Employment with Legislature Prior to 1979 - Purchase Pursuant to Title 29
Status: in_force

Any active and contributing member of the Employees’ Retirement System, may hereby claim and purchase credit in the Employees’ Retirement System for up to four years’ time for employment by the Alabama Legislature pursuant to Chapters 4, 5 and 7 of Title 29, prior to 1979, provided, that such member shall pay into the Employees’ Retirement System the total amount he would have contributed had he been allowed to contribute at the position and salary level, together with interest not to exceed eight percent compounded annually from the date of service to the date of payment, and provided that he shall make such payment within one year from August 8, 1991. Provided, further, any active and contributing member who has previously purchased credit for said service rendered prior to 1979 is prohibited from purchasing such credit for the same service.
Ala. Code § 36-6-153 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-153
Section 36-6-153 Appropriations
Status: in_force

It is not the intent of this division to make appropriations, but the appropriations required by this division shall be made in the annual budget act for the affected entities.
Ala. Code § 36-27-82 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-82
Section 36-27-82 Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Participated in Employees’ Retirement System
Status: in_force

There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1988, to each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-7 or section 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1987, and to certain beneficiaries of deceased members and deceased retirees of such employers, provided the effective date of retirement or death for such deceased retiree or deceased member for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1987, and who is receiving a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System a cost-of-living increase as follows:

(1) Fifty cents per month for each year of service attained by said retiree plus $1.75 per month for each year of retirement attained by said retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1.

(2) Fifty cents per month for each year of service attained by said retiree plus $1.75 per month for each year of retirement attained by said retiree reduced by the retiree’s option selection factor for each retiree selecting Option 2, 3 or 4.

(3) Fifty cents per month for each year of service attained by said deceased member or deceased retiree plus $1.75 per month for each year since the date of death of such deceased member or in the case of a deceased retiree since his effective date of retirement, reduced by the survivor’s option factor for each beneficiary receiving monthly benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System.
Ala. Code § 36-27-14 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-14
Section 36-27-14 Granting of Credit for Service as Officer or Subordinate Officer of Legislature; Maximum Credit; Payment of Employee’s Contribution; Applicability of Provisions of Section
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who, as of September 18, 1973, is a regular employee of the State of Alabama and is covered or eligible to be covered under the state Employees’ Retirement System and who is also an officer or subordinate officer of the Legislature of Alabama shall have credited to him one half year of creditable service for each legislative session in which such person was employed prior to becoming a regular employee of the State of Alabama, not to exceed eight years in the aggregate; provided, that such person shall pay into the retirement system the employee’s part of the cost or contribution based on the salary such person received as a legislative employee, such cost or contribution to be calculated at the percentage or rate in effect at the time on September 18, 1973.

(b) This section shall apply only to those persons at the time of their retirement who have 20 or more creditable years of service under the state retirement system.

(c) The employee’s contribution for prior years of service shall be paid by such employee within 90 days after September 18, 1973.
Ala. Code § 36-21-141 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-141
Section 36-21-141 Nomination and Award
Status: reserved

REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
Ala. Code § 36-19-23 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-23
Section 36-19-23 Payment of Fees to Local Assistants Not Receiving Salary from State
Status: in_force

All local assistants not receiving a salary from the State of Alabama shall receive monthly on the audit of the Fire Marshal $.50 for each report of each separate fire reported to the Fire Marshal under the provisions of this article; provided, that the loss by such fire shall exceed the amount of $25.00. In addition thereto there shall be paid to the chiefs of the fire departments or to the mayor in each incorporated municipality or place in which no paid fire department exists or to any other authorized citizen without the limits of an incorporated municipality or place, whose duty it shall have been to make and who has actually made an investigation of such fire and reported same to the fire marshal, the sum of $.15 per mile for each mile traveled to the place of the fire and, where an investigation has been made, a sum not to exceed $3.00 for each day’s service spent in making such investigation. Such fees shall be paid only after conclusive evidence is furnished that such service has been ordered by the Fire Marshal and has been performed in accordance with the provisions of this article, upon itemized vouchers and upon oath.
Ala. Code § 36-27-205 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-205
Section 36-27-205 Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer and Receiving Benefits Not Administered by System
Status: in_force

Commencing October 1, 2006, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 2005, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit not administered by the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive the cost-of-living increase of two percent in his or her gross monthly benefit which the Legislature committed to in Section 14 of Act 2005-316, plus an additional five percent increase in his or her gross monthly benefit. The increase shall not be less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. The increase shall be granted provided the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state elects to fund and pay the increase.
Ala. Code § 36-27-87 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-87
Section 36-27-87 Amount of Increase - Persons Other Than Those Whose Employer Participated Under Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7 or 36-27-7.1
Status: in_force

There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1990, to each person except persons whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7 or 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1989, and to beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees except where the deceased member or deceased retiree retired from an employer participating in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7 or 36-27-7.1, provided the date of death for such deceased member or the effective date of retirement for such deceased retiree for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1989, and who is receiving a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System a cost-of-living increase as follows:

(1) $1.00 per month for each year of service attained by said retiree plus $3.00 per month for each year of retirement attained by said retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1.

(2) $1.00 per month for each year of service attained by said retiree plus $3.00 per month for each year of retirement attained by said retiree reduced by the retiree’s option election factor for each retiree selecting Options 2, 3 or 4.

(3) $1.00 per month for each year of service attained by said deceased member or deceased retiree plus $3.00 per month for each year since the date of death of such deceased member or in the case of a deceased retiree since his effective date of retirement reduced by the survivor’s option factor for each beneficiary receiving monthly benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System.
Ala. Code § 36-25-11 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 25 / Section 36-25-11
Section 36-25-11 Public Officials or Employees Entering into Contracts Which Are to Be Paid Out of Government Funds
Status: in_force

Unless exempt pursuant to Alabama competitive bid laws or otherwise permitted by law, no public official or public employee, or a member of the household of the public employee or the public official, and no business with which the person is associated shall enter into any contract to provide goods or services which is to be paid in whole or in part out of state, county, or municipal funds unless the contract has been awarded through a process of competitive bidding and a copy of the contract is filed with the commission. All such contract awards shall be made as a result of original bid takings, and no awards from negotiations after bidding shall be allowed. A copy of each contract, regardless of the amount, entered into by a public official, public employee, a member of the household of the public employee or the public official, and any business with which the person is associated shall be filed with the commission within 10 days after the contract has been entered into.
Ala. Code § 36-1-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 1 / Section 36-1-4
Section 36-1-4 Payroll Deductions, Etc., for Community Chests, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) Any officer or employee of the State of Alabama, any political subdivision or school district thereof, of any institution supported in whole or in part by the state, a county or a municipality who desires to make a contribution to a community chest or other combination of nonprofit health or welfare agencies shall be permitted to have such contribution deducted from the salary or wage due such officer or employee by filing a written request therefor with the fiscal officer of the state, political subdivision, school district or institution by which such officer or employee is employed.

(b) Upon receipt of such request by the fiscal officer of the state, political subdivision, school district or institution from such officer or employee, such fiscal officer is authorized to issue a warrant or warrants in favor of the designated community chest or other combination of nonprofit health or welfare agencies in such amount as may be designated in such request.
Ala. Code § 36-27-51 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-51
Section 36-27-51 Credit to Officer or Employee for Prior Service with Another Eligible Employer
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Any person who, as of October 1, 1996, is an officer or a regular employee of an employer eligible to participate in the Employees’ Retirement System under Section 36-27-6, and is covered or eligible to be covered under the state Employees’ Retirement System and who has previously been employed by another employer eligible for participation under Section 36-27-6, shall be eligible to receive up to 10 years of creditable service for employment rendered to another employer eligible for participation in the Employees’ Retirement System under Section 36-27-6 provided, that the member claiming the credit shall have attained not less than five years of contributing membership service credit, exclusive of military service credit under the Employees’ Retirement System, the member shall not have received credit for the prior service under any public retirement or pension plan except the federal Social Security program, and the member performs and complies with the conditions prescribed in subdivision (2).

(2) A member of the Employees’ Retirement System eligible under this subsection, may receive credit for service rendered to another employer eligible for participation in the Employees’ Retirement System as provided in subdivision (1), provided that prior to receiving the credit, the member shall contribute, prior to the date of his or her retirement, to the Employees’ Retirement System, for each year of service credit, a percentage of his or her current annual earnable compensation or the average of his or her current annual earnable compensation for the two fiscal years immediately prior to the purchase, whichever is greater; the applicable percentage of the annual earnable compensations shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuation.

(b) The eligible employer defined in subsection (a) shall certify in writing to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama the total employment status and earnable compensation by fiscal year for the member requesting the service credit.

(c) The member shall claim, purchase, and receive credit for all the service certified from the eligible employer up to a maximum of 10 years. In addition, the member is only eligible for a maximum of 10 years of service credit under this section regardless of the total number of eligible employers and total years of service.
Ala. Code § 36-2-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 2 / Section 36-2-3
Section 36-2-3 Residence of Officers Generally; Location of Offices
Status: in_force

All officers must reside in this state and keep their offices in such places as are or may be designated by law.
Ala. Code § 36-16-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 16 / Section 36-16-7
Section 36-16-7 Property Inventory Control Division - Created
Status: in_force

There is hereby created, in the office of the State Auditor, a Property Inventory Control Division.
Ala. Code § 36-13-13 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 13 / Section 36-13-13
Section 36-13-13 Governor’s Councillor
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created the office of Governor’s Councillor. Every person who shall have been elected to the office of Governor of Alabama for two terms or more and who shall have attained age 60 may be entitled to become a Governor’s Councillor upon his application to the Governor and upon the Governor’s certifying his employment as such councillor. A councillor shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor.

(b) It shall be the duty of a Governor’s Councillor, upon the request of the Governor, to provide such aid, counsel, advice and assistance as the Governor may require or direct. All reports, advice, counsel or recommendations of a councillor shall be confidential and privileged and shall not be divulged or revealed by a councillor to anybody except the Governor.

(c) A councillor shall be entitled to compensation payable from the State Treasury at the same times and in the same way that the Governor’s salary is paid, which shall be in the amount of $18,000.00 per annum.

(d) This section shall automatically expire and have no force and effect immediately upon the adoption of a constitutional amendment providing or authorizing retirement or pensions for former governors if any such constitutional amendment should be proposed in the future.
Ala. Code § 36-12-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 12 / Section 36-12-2
Section 36-12-2 Public Officers and Servants to Accurately Maintain and Preserve from Loss, Destruction, Etc., Complete Books, Papers, Files, Etc
Status: in_force

All public officers and servants shall correctly make and accurately keep in and for their respective offices or places of business all such books or sets of books, documents, files, papers, letters and copies of letters as at all times shall afford full and detailed information in reference to the activities or business required to be done or carried on by such officer or servant and from which the actual status and condition of such activities and business can be ascertained without extraneous information, and all of the books, documents, files, papers, letters, and copies of letters so made and kept shall be carefully protected and safely preserved and guarded from mutilation, loss or destruction.
Ala. Code § 36-28-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 28 / Section 36-28-3
Section 36-28-3 State Office for Social Security
Status: in_force

There shall be a State Office for Social Security under the supervision of the state Comptroller. All employees of such office shall be subject to the provisions of the state Merit System.
Ala. Code § 36-21-43 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-43
Section 36-21-43 Meetings; Official Seal
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall meet in regular session quarterly at a time and place in the State of Alabama to be designated in its bylaws. Special meetings may be called by the chairman, the vice-chairman or any three members by giving notice of the time, place and purposes of such special meeting at least five days before it is to be held to each member of the commission. Such notice may be waived by all members of the commission, either before or after a special meeting.

(b) The commission shall adopt an official seal, and the executive secretary shall be custodian of the seal and shall have authority to affix the seal to agreements and obligations of the commission and to certified copies of proceedings of the commission.
Ala. Code § 36-5-24 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-24
Section 36-5-24 Liability of State or County Officials Collecting and Paying Out Money and of Recipients Thereof Under Law Declared Unconstitutional, Void, Etc
Status: in_force

When any state or county official shall have collected or paid out any money as fees, salary or compensation for official services rendered under any law of Alabama, general or special, which law, subsequent to such collection or paying out, shall be declared by the Supreme Court of Alabama to be unconstitutional or void or illegal, such officer shall not be liable either individually or on his official bond in any civil action brought for the recovery of such money so collected or paid out, nor shall the person to whom the same shall have been paid be liable therefor.
Ala. Code § 36-26-66 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-66
Section 36-26-66 Capitol Security Police Officers in Department of Finance
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2003-363, §3, effective September 1, 2003.
Ala. Code § 36-14-17 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 14 / Section 36-14-17
Section 36-14-17 Centralized Data Collection and Display Regarding Appointees to Certain State Entities
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, the following words have the following meanings:

(1) BOARD. A state board, commission, committee, permanent task force, or similar multi-member entity created by executive order of the Governor or by law and having statewide or regional jurisdiction or application.

(2) VACANCY. A vacancy in an existing board, or a new, unfilled board position.

(b)(1) Not later than April 3, 2023, the Secretary of State shall establish and maintain on the official website of the Secretary of State accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information regarding every board which includes, at a minimum, all of the following information:

a. The name of the board, its mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

b. A brief description of the board’s mission and duties.

c. The name of each appointee to the board.

d. The date of appointment, term of appointment, and expiration date of the term of appointment of each appointee.

e. The name and position of the appointing authority of each appointee.

f. The statutory authority for board appointments.

(2) The website shall have a search feature that, at a minimum, allows searches by board name, by appointing authority, and by terms and expiration date of appointments.

(3) Not later than 30 days after a new board is created, the Secretary of State shall update the website to include the information described in subdivision (1).

(c) The chair of an existing board shall notify the Secretary of State by electronic means of a vacancy as follows:

(1) For a vacancy scheduled to occur on the board as a result of the expiration of a term, at least 45 days before the vacancy occurs.

(2) For a vacancy occurring for any reason other than the expiration of a term, as soon as possible, and in any case within 15 days after the occurrence of the vacancy.

(d) Notification of the appointment of board members of a newly created board shall be provided electronically to the Secretary of State within five business days of appointment as follows:

(1) For an appointing authority who is a member of the Legislature, the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate, as appropriate, shall notify the Secretary of State of the appointment.

(2) For any other appointing authority, the appointing authority shall notify the Secretary of State of the appointment.

(e) The chair of each board shall be responsible for ensuring all relevant information is transmitted to the Secretary of State in a timely manner.

(f) Not more than 30 days after a board is sunsetted, abolished, or terminated, the Secretary of State shall remove the board from the website as an active board, but may retain the board information for archival purposes.

(g) The Secretary of State shall maintain on the website of the Secretary of State a list of all current vacancies.

(h) The Secretary of State, on or before the tenth legislative day of each regular session of the Legislature, shall submit a report detailing the membership and viability status of each board to the Chairs of the House Boards, Agencies, and Commissions Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. If the annual report reveals that a board has been inactive for five or more years, the Secretary of State shall recommend that the Sunset Committee call the board for review, pursuant to the Alabama Sunset Law of 1981, and introduce a bill to terminate the board during the next regular session.

(i) The Secretary of State may adopt necessary rules to implement and administer this section.
Ala. Code § 36-30-40 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 30 / Section 36-30-40
Section 36-30-40 Definitions. (Amended by Act 2026-353)
Status: in_force

THIS ACT WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2026-353, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR AMENDED LANGUAGE.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) BENEFIT. Any monetary allowance payable by the state for a firefighter on account of his or her disability or to his or her dependents on account of his or her death, irrespective of whether the same is payable under a pension law of the state or under some other law of the state.

(2) DISABILITY. Disability to perform duties as a firefighter.

(3) FIREFIGHTER. A person employed as a firefighter by the state.

(4) FIREFIGHTER’S OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. Any condition or impairment of health caused by any of the following:

a. Hypertension.

b. Heart disease.

c. Respiratory disease.

d. Cancer which manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the state, provided the firefighter demonstrates that he or she, while in the employ of the state, was exposed to a known carcinogen which is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer, and the cancer shall be presumed to arise out of and in the course of the firefighter’s employment unless the state demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence that the cancer was caused by some other means.

e. HIV which manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the state, provided the firefighter demonstrates by sufficient evidence that he or she was exposed to HIV while in the line and scope of his or her employment with the state.

f. Hepatitis which manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the state, provided the firefighter demonstrates that he or she was exposed to hepatitis while in the line and scope of his or her employment with the state.
Ala. Code § 36-27-6.3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-6.3
Section 36-27-6.3 Purchase of Credit for Prior Service as Firefighter
Status: in_force

Any active and contributing member of a city or municipal retirement system that participates in the Employees’ Retirement System under Section 36-27-6 who rendered prior service as a full-time firefighter with a non-participating city employer that has been annexed into a city or municipality that participates in the Employees’ Retirement System, may purchase credit including hazardous duty service in the Employees’ Retirement System for the prior service if the member pays to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees’ Retirement System prior to the date of his or her retirement a sum equal to the full actuarial determined cost for each year of service purchased as determined by the actuary for the system. The local governmental entity which currently employs the member shall furnish the Employees’ Retirement System with documentation of the prior service being claimed by the member as requested by the retirement system. Notwithstanding the foregoing language, no member of the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or in any other retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program.
Ala. Code § 36-15-22 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 15 / Section 36-15-22
Section 36-15-22 Attorney General to Designate Certain Merit System Positions
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other laws, in addition to the existing Merit System positions in the office of the Attorney General, no later than 30 days after January 15, 1996, the Attorney General shall designate certain positions in his or her office as state Merit System positions and the individuals holding the positions on the date of designation, not to exceed 15 positions, shall become state Merit System employees on such date if he or she meets the minimum requirements for the position. The State Personnel Department shall determine the appropriate classification for each aforementioned employee. The classifications shall reflect a classification and pay that would result in his or her compensation being the same or higher than his or her current compensation. Each of these individuals shall have conferred upon them all the rights and benefits of any other member of the classified service in the state Merit System.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, as to any person holding an unclassified state Merit System appointment under Act No. 91-736 in a currently budgeted position as a deputy attorney general or paralegal in any department or agency of the State of Alabama on January 15, 1996, after consulting with the director of the department or agency, the Attorney General shall designate the position in the department or agency as a classified state Merit System position and the individual holding the position shall become a state Merit System employee in the classification most appropriate to the job duties and current salary of the employee as determined by the State Personnel Department if he or she meets the minimum requirements for the position. The classification of each individual shall reflect a classification and pay which would result in his or her compensation being the same as his or her compensation on January 15, 1996 or at entry level of the classification, whichever is greater. The individuals classified under this subsection shall have conferred upon them all the rights and benefits of other employees in the classified service under the state Merit System.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, no position may be designated a classified state Merit System position pursuant to this section at a classification of Attorney IV, for attorney positions, or at higher than the second level classification for the positions for non-attorney positions.
Ala. Code § 36-19-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-6
Section 36-19-6 Reports of Fires to Fire Marshal by Assistants
Status: in_force

Every fire occurring in the state shall be reported in writing to the Fire Marshal within 10 days after the occurrence of the same by the officer designated in Section 36-19-3 in whose jurisdiction such fire has occurred. Such report shall be in the form prescribed by the Fire Marshal and shall contain a statement of all facts relating to the cause and origin of such fire that can be ascertained, the extent of damages thereof, the amount of insurance on such property, if any, and such other information as may be required.
Ala. Code § 36-26-32 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-32
Section 36-26-32 Restoration of Employee to Former Position After Service in Armed Forces
Status: in_force

At any time before the expiration of 12 months after the termination of the period of honorable service of such applicant in any of the Armed Forces of the United States, he may apply in writing, which application shall be directed to and filed with the State Director of Personnel, for the termination of his leave of absence. Within 30 days of the filing of such application, the State Personnel Board shall consider the same and, if the mental and physical condition of the applicant are such that he is not thereby disqualified to perform the duties of such position from which he had leave of absence, it shall thereupon order his restoration to said position, effective upon the date on which the said order is made and entered. Such restoration shall be made, as provided in this section, notwithstanding the fact that it results in the layoff of the incumbent who is serving in such position.
Ala. Code § 36-18-21 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-21
Section 36-18-21 Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this article, the following words, phrases or terms shall have the following meanings, respectively unless the context thereof clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) DIRECTOR. Shall mean the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.

(b) PERSON. A human being, and where appropriate, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a government or a governmental instrumentality.

(c) DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid.

(d) DNA SAMPLE. Any biological sample containing DNA.

(e) DNA RECORD. An objective form of scientific analysis or tests which contain genetic identification characteristics of DNA samples.

(f) DNA POPULATION FREQUENCY. The frequency of occurrence of a particular DNA trait or fragment in a particular population.

(g) DNA DATABASE. That system established by the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for the purposes of collecting, storing and maintaining DNA records.

(h) DNA POPULATION STATISTICAL DATABASE. That system established by the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for collecting, storing, and maintaining genetic information relating to DNA population frequencies.

(i) FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

(j) CODIS. The National DNA Identification Index System established by the FBI.

(k) INCARCERATION FACILITY. Any place of lawful involuntary confinement, partial or total, limited or unlimited, for criminals convicted pursuant to Alabama law, including but not limited to:

1. Prisons, jails or similar facilities.

2. Work release centers, or similar facilities.

3. Farms, ranches, halfway houses or similar facilities.

4. Drug or alcohol abuse treatment facilities.

5. Mental hospitals or other mental health facilities.

6. Parole or probation facilities or similar facilities.

(l) CUSTODIAN. Any person who supervises, directs, or controls, by duty, assignment, appointment, or election any incarceration facility, including but not limited to:

1. The Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections.

2. Any warden or similar officer employed by the State of Alabama or any county or municipality thereof.

3. Any director, supervisor, or similar officer of any work release center, ranch, farm, halfway house or similar facility operated, in whole or in part, or funded, in whole or in part, from state, county, or municipal funds.

4. Any director, supervisor, or similar officer of any drug or alcohol abuse treatment center or similar facility receiving criminals convicted or sentenced thereto pursuant to Alabama law.

5. Sheriffs.

6. Chiefs of police.

7. Probation and parole officers.
Ala. Code § 36-22-9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-9
Section 36-22-9 Execution of Process Required of Constables; Compensation and Liability Therefor
Status: in_force

The sheriff is authorized to execute all process which is required to be executed by constables and shall receive the same fees and compensation therefor as constables, except in cases of forcible entry and detainer and unlawful detainer, and he and his sureties on his official bond shall be liable for any abuse of the process that he may execute under this section.
Ala. Code § 36-27-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-4
Section 36-27-4 Membership - Generally; Denial of Membership; Absence from Service; Military Service
Status: in_force

(a) The membership of the retirement system shall be composed as follows:

(1) All persons who shall become employees after October 1, 1945, shall become members of the retirement system as a condition of their employment.

(2) Any person who is an employee on October 1, 1945, shall become a member as of that date unless, within a period of 90 days next following, such employee shall file with the Board of Control on a form prescribed by the board a notice of his or her election not to be covered in the membership of the system and a duly executed waiver of all present and prospective benefits which would otherwise inure to him or her on account of his or her membership in the retirement system.

(3) An employee whose membership in the retirement system is contingent on his or her own election and who elects not to become a member may thereafter apply for and be admitted to membership with all prior service credit as otherwise provided for in this article by applying for such membership at any time prior to July 1, 1962; provided, that the employee pays to the treasurer of the retirement system on or before July 1, 1962, a sum equal to the total contributions which he or she would have made as a member during the period of his or her service as an employee from October 1, 1945, to the date of his or her application for membership. Any member or retired employee who at one time worked as a nonmember may now receive credit for prior service and for the years worked as a nonmember; provided, that the member or retired employee pays to the treasurer of the retirement system on or before July 1, 1962, a sum equal to the total contributions which he or she would have made as a member during the period of his or her employment from October 1, 1945, to the date he or she became a member.

(4) All county engineers of the several counties of the state in whose salaries the State Department of Transportation participates, except county engineers who are already members of this retirement system under provisions of this article or who are covered under the provisions of a county retirement system supported by funds of the employing county. The effective date for the inclusion of county engineers in the system shall be October 1, 1964. Membership in the retirement system shall be optional for county engineers employed on the date participation becomes effective, and any county engineer who elects to enroll in the retirement system within one year thereafter may be admitted to membership with all prior service credit and all membership service credit; provided, that the county engineer pays to the treasurer of the retirement system at the time he or she enrolls a sum equal to the total employee contributions and interest he or she would have had to his or her credit had he or she been a member during the period of his or her service as county engineer from October 1, 1945, to the date of his or her application for membership. Should a county engineer employed on the date participation becomes effective elect to enroll as a member without paying such prior membership contributions and interest, he or she may become a member without credit for service prior to date of his or her enrollment. Membership shall be compulsory for all county engineers who are eligible for such membership upon entering service as a county engineer after the date participation becomes effective to the extent of the State Department of Transportation’s participation in his or her salary.

(b) The Board of Control may, in its discretion, deny the right to become members to any class of employees whose compensation is only partly paid by the state, except as provided in this article.

(c) Should any member in any period of six consecutive years after becoming a member be absent from service more than five years or withdraw his or her contributions, as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of Section 36-27-16, or retire or die, he or she shall thereupon cease to be a member.

(d) A member in service on January 1, 1976, who has honorable duty consisting of active full-time military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, exclusive of any summer or weekend service in a reserve or national guard component of any branch of the armed forces, and who has not received credit toward retirement status in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama for that military service, may be granted by the Board of Control membership service credit for the period of such service in the armed forces; provided, that such member pays into the Employees’ Retirement System, in a lump sum prior to October 1, 1976, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation paid to a state employee during each claimed year of full-time military service, plus and together therewith eight percent interest compounded from the last date of such claimed military service; and provided further, that such a member shall not receive membership service credit for more than four years of military service, and shall receive no credit for military service if such member is receiving military service retirement benefits, other than disability allowances or benefits, from any branch of the United States Armed Forces, or by reason of any such service in any branch of the armed forces, or, if such member received anything other than an honorable discharge for and including the claimed military service. Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, if any person becoming a member of the Employees’ Retirement System after January 1, 1976, shall have honorable duty consisting of active full-time military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, exclusive of any summer or weekend service in a reserve or national guard component of any branch of the armed forces, such member may be granted by the Board of Control membership service credit for such period of service in the armed forces; provided, that such member pays into the Employees’ Retirement System, in a lump sum within one year next after the first day of the pay period in which the first deduction to the Employees’ Retirement System is made after having been honorably discharged from the armed forces, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation paid to a state employee during each claimed year of full-time military service, plus and together therewith eight percent interest compounded from the last date of such claimed military service; and provided further, that no member shall receive more than four years’ membership service credit for military service, and no credit for military service shall be granted if such member is receiving military service retirement benefits, other than disability allowances or benefits, from any branch of the United States Armed Forces, or by reason of any service in any branch of the armed forces, or, if such member received anything other than an honorable discharge for and including the claimed military service.

(e) Any member, who retired prior to January 1, 1976, who has service in the armed forces, as described in this section, shall be entitled to claim such full-time military service; provided, that such retired member pays into the Employees’ Retirement System, in a lump sum prior to October 1, 1976, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation paid to a state employee during such claimed year of full-time military service, plus and together therewith eight percent compounded from the last date of such claimed military service; and provided further, that such retired member shall not receive membership service credit for more than four years of military service, and shall receive no credit for military service, if such member is receiving military service retirement benefits, other than disability allowance or benefits, from any branch of the armed forces, or by reason of any such service in any branch of the armed forces. The provisions of this subsection shall be retroactive to October 1, 1975.

(f) All retirement allowance payments due on or after January 1, 1976, to members of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama who retired prior to that date and who have complied with the provisions of this section shall be redetermined as if the provisions of this section were in effect at the time they retired; provided, that any increase in the retirement allowance payment for a member who, prior to October 1, 1975, retired under the provisions of any optional benefit elected pursuant to Acts 1945, No. 515, as amended, shall accrue only to the retired member, and no person designated to receive any payments after the death of a retired member under the provisions of any such optional benefit shall receive any increase in such payments.
Ala. Code § 36-16-11 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 16 / Section 36-16-11
Section 36-16-11 Property Inventory Control Division - Property Exempt from Control
Status: in_force

Exempt from Sections 36-16-8 through 36-16-10 are all of the following classes of property:

(1) Livestock, animals, farm and agricultural products, and all property owned, used by, or under control of all public schools, universities, colleges, trade schools, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, and the Alabama Public Library Service.

(2) All fire control or fire rescue equipment acquired by the Alabama Forestry Commission from sources other than state agencies which are designated for donation to volunteer fire departments pursuant to Section 9-3-19.

(3) Any hospital operated by the Alabama Department of Mental Health.

(4) All property of the Alabama State Port Authority.
Ala. Code § 36-31-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 31 / Section 36-31-3
Section 36-31-3 Applicability of Provisions of Chapter
Status: in_force

This chapter shall apply to each and every retirement and pension plan enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alabama which does not specifically designate a trustee, board of trustees, committee or other person or persons to administer, invest, reinvest, hold or dispense funds of the retirement and pension plan; and this chapter shall apply to each and every retirement and pension plan enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alabama which designates a pension board or other person or persons whose powers and duties with respect to the retirement and pension plan are limited to dispensing benefits and to handling administrative duties which exclude investing, reinvesting and holding funds of the retirement and pension plan.
Ala. Code § 36-12-26 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 12 / Section 36-12-26
Section 36-12-26 Proceedings for Recovery of Papers, Property, Etc., by Successor to Office Upon Death of Incumbent, Etc
Status: in_force

If any person holding any office in this state dies or his office in any way becomes vacant and any books, papers or property belonging or appertaining to such office come into the possession of any person, the qualified successor to such office may, in the manner before prescribed in Sections 36-12-20 through 36-12-25, demand such books, papers or property from the person having the same in his possession; and, on the same being withheld, an order may be obtained and the person charged may, in like manner, make oath of the delivery of all such books, papers and property that ever came into his possession; and, in case of his failure to make such oath and to deliver up the books, papers or property so demanded, such person shall be committed to jail and a search warrant may be issued and the books, papers, or property seized by virtue thereof and delivered to the plaintiff, as prescribed in Sections 36-12-20 through 36-12-25.
Ala. Code § 36-29-11 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29 / Section 36-29-11
Section 36-29-11 Payment of Benefits Under Plan
Status: in_force

Any benefits payable under the plan adopted may be paid either directly to the attending physician, hospital, medical group or other furnishing the service upon which the claim is based or to the insured employee upon presentation of valid bills for such services, subject to such provisions designed to facilitate payment as may be made by the board.
Ala. Code § 36-6A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6A / Section 36-6A-3
Section 36-6A-3 Administration of Parental Leave
Status: reserved

(a) Parental leave authorized by this chapter shall be administered as follows:

(1) Parental leave shall be paid at 100 percent of the eligible employee’s base pay.

(2) Parental leave shall remain at 100 percent of the pay provided in subdivision (1) for the duration of the leave as if the eligible employee worked continuously from the date that the eligible employee commenced his or her parental leave until the date the eligible employee returns from parental leave.

(3) Parental leave shall not require an eligible employee to use or exhaust sick leave, annual leave, or any other leave or paid time off.

(4) Parental leave has no cash value.

(b) Any unused parental leave may not be used to calculate an eligible employee’s retirement benefits.

(c) Unused parental leave shall not roll over, be reserved for use during a subsequent qualifying event, or be paid to the eligible employee.
Ala. Code § 36-18-27 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-27
Section 36-18-27 Disclosure of Dna Records
Status: in_force

DNA records collected and maintained for the purpose of the identification of criminal suspects or offenders shall be disclosed only:

(a) To criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes.

(b) In judicial proceedings, if otherwise admissible.

(c) For criminal defense purposes, to a defendant, who shall have access to samples and analyses performed in connection with the case in which such defendant is charged.
Ala. Code § 36-29A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29A / Section 36-29A-6
Section 36-29A-6 State Not Waiving Sovereign Immunity
Status: in_force

Neither this chapter nor any part thereof shall be construed as a waiver by the state of its sovereign immunity under the Constitution of Alabama 1901.
Ala. Code § 36-20-32 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 20 / Section 36-20-32
Section 36-20-32 Seal
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-295, p. 544, §2, effective January 1, 2012.
Ala. Code § 36-6-110 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-110
Section 36-6-110 Persons Eligible - 2007 Increase
Status: in_force

Beginning with the first pay day on or after October 1, 2007, all state employees who are listed in the classified and unclassified service of the state as defined in Section 36-26-10, and all other state employees and hourly employees of the state, except those set out in Section 36-6-112 and all legislative personnel, officers, and employees, including, but not limited to, Legislative Reference Service personnel, whether subject to the state Merit System or not, and all employees of the county health departments who are employed subject to the state Merit System and whose compensation is paid out of a budget provided and agreed upon by the state, county, or other contributing agency under the direction of the State Board of Health shall receive a three and one-half percent salary increase.
Ala. Code § 36-17-17 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 17 / Section 36-17-17
Section 36-17-17 Special Trustee of State Sinking Funds
Status: in_force

Sinking funds are trust funds for the equitable use and benefit of the holders and owners of the state bonds or obligations for the payment of which the sinking funds were created. The Treasurer is special trustee for the care and custody of such sinking funds after they are paid into the State Treasury. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to take charge of, keep safely and handle the funds coming into said sinking funds.
Ala. Code § 36-5-15 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-15
Section 36-5-15 Failure of Officer to Give Bond Within Prescribed Time Vacates Office; Certification of Failure to File Bond to Appointing Power and Filling of Vacancy
Status: in_force

If any officer required by law to give bond fails to file the same within the time fixed by law, he vacates his office. In such case, it is the duty of the officer in whose office such bond is required to be filed at once to certify such failure to the appointing power, and the vacancy must be filled as in other cases.
Ala. Code § 36-26-33 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-33
Section 36-26-33 Rights and Privileges Upon Entry, Etc., into Military Service of Employees Not in Classified Service
Status: in_force

Those employees who are not in the classified service, as defined by this article, upon being called into or entering the military service, shall have the same rights and privileges as to reemployment by the state or any department thereof as are granted to those employees in the classified service by Sections 36-26-30 through 36-26-32.
Ala. Code § 36-22-11 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-11
Section 36-22-11 Entries to Be Made in Record Book as to Amounts Received by Sheriff on Executions or Orders of Sale
Status: in_force

The sheriff must also enter on the same page, against the entries required by Section 36-22-10, the amount he receives on such execution or order of sale, stating the principal, interest and cost separately and also stating separately each item of costs he receives which is not charged in the bill of costs, the time he receives the same and his return.
Ala. Code § 36-1-7.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 1 / Section 36-1-7.1
Section 36-1-7.1 Alabama Employees’ Suggestion Incentive Program
Status: in_force

(a) There is established the Alabama Employees’ Suggestion Incentive Program for merit and non-merit employees of state government. The program will make financial incentive awards to state employees whose adopted suggestions result in substantial financial savings or improvement in the efficiency of state operations.

(b) There is established the Alabama Employees’ Suggestion Incentive Board, which shall be composed of the Director of Finance, the Governor or his or her designee, and the Executive Director of the Alabama State Employees’ Association.

(c) The board shall adopt rules to govern its proceedings and may adopt any other rules and regulations necessary to implement this section, including specifying classifications of employees for award purposes and excluding any employee classifications from this section.

(d) The board shall elect a chair and secretary, shall maintain a permanent and accurate record of its proceedings, and shall establish criteria for making and approving awards. The board shall meet at least quarterly to evaluate suggestions forwarded to it by state departments and agencies. Departments or agencies shall forward to the board a suggestion submitted by an employee together with the department’s recommendation regarding the suggestion and a calculation of one-time savings, and when possible, the on-going savings that would result from implementation of the suggestion. The department or agency shall not implement an employee suggestion forwarded pursuant to this section until the board approves and authorizes implementation.

(e) Upon approval and implementation of an employee suggestion that is meritorious, the board shall award the employee submitting the suggestion a one-time cash award of one thousand dollars ($1,000). In an exceptional situation, the board may award up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) to an employee for a suggestion or suggestions that result in extraordinary savings or improvement for the state.

(f) No elected official or department head shall be eligible to be a recipient of an incentive award pursuant to this section.

(g) A state department or agency shall implement the employee suggestion within 180 days of the approval notice from the board or provide a written report to the board at that time with specific reasons why the department has not implemented the suggestion.

(h) Beginning with the budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2000, the Legislature shall make an annual appropriation to the board for implementing this section.
Ala. Code § 36-26A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26A / Section 36-26A-6
Section 36-26A-6 Sovereign Immunity
Status: in_force

This chapter does not create a new cause of action against the State of Alabama or its agencies.
Ala. Code § 36-27-139 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-139
Section 36-27-139 Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer and Receiving Benefits Not Administered by System
Status: in_force

Commencing October 1, 1996, any pensioner or annuitant who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit not administered by the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive a fifty dollar ($50) per month increase provided the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state elects to fund the increase provided the pensioner retired prior to October 1, 1996.
Ala. Code § 36-21-78 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-78
Section 36-21-78 Annuities and Benefits Provided by Chapter Cumulative; Participation by Peace Officers in Other Plans, Systems, Etc., Not to Bar Participation in Fund
Status: in_force

The annuities and benefits provided for in this article shall not repeal or be considered to be in substitution for any other annuity or benefit provided for by law or any other retirement system, whether municipal, county, state or federal.

Participation by a peace officer in any other such program, plan, fund or system shall not bar participation by such peace officer in the fund.
Ala. Code § 36-21-183 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-183
Section 36-21-183 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Powers and Duties
Status: in_force

The board shall have the following powers in carrying out its responsibilities:

(1) To collect all moneys provided in this article to be collected by it.

(2) To provide for and maintain all necessary administrative facilities and personnel.

(3) To provide for payment of all administrative salaries, fees, and expenses.

(4) To cause its moneys to be invested in a manner consistent with the ERS investment policies and practices.

(5) To pass upon all applications for annuities and benefits provided for in this article.

(6) To adopt such rules as may be necessary or desirable to expedite the administration of the affairs of the board pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act.

(7) To provide upon request descriptive literature regarding the fund.

(8) To pay all benefits and annuities that may be determined to be due under this article and under the rules of the board.

(9) To make refunds and repayments to which members may be entitled under this article.

(10) To employ such agents, attorneys, actuaries, and other specialized personnel as shall be necessary or desirable to enable the board to carry on its functions in a proper and actuarially sound manner.

(11) To receive by gift, grant, devise, or bequest any moneys or properties of any nature or description.

(12) To carry out any powers expressly granted to the board elsewhere in this article.

(13) All other powers necessary for the proper administration of this article.
Ala. Code § 36-5-66 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-66
Section 36-5-66 Effect of Discharge of Surety
Status: in_force

The discharge provided for in Section 36-5-65 does not affect the previous liability of any of the obligors, but in case of the discharge of any one or more obligors under such section, the same shall operate as a discharge of all other obligors.
Ala. Code § 36-27-7.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-7.1
Section 36-27-7.1 Participation of Employees of Counties, Cities, Towns, Public or Quasi-Public Organizations, Etc. - Certain Retired Employees of Cooperative Extension Service of Auburn University
Status: in_force

(a) Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any retired employee of the Cooperative Extension Service of Auburn University who has retired under federal civil service retirement after January 1, 1972, but on or before May 1, 1976, and who would otherwise be eligible to participate in the Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Alabama under the provisions of Section 36-27-7, shall be allowed prior creditable service under the Employees’ Retirement System for time spent in the employment of the Cooperative Extension Service before retirement under federal civil service retirement and shall be allowed to participate in the Employees’ Retirement System under the same conditions and with same benefits for such past service as employees eligible to participate in the Employees’ Retirement System under the provisions of Section 36-27-7; provided, that 10 percent of the cost with respect to the claim for prior service shall be borne by the individual employee, and the remaining 90 percent shall be paid from funds made available from the Education Trust Fund. All other costs with respect to the claim of prior service for the individual employee shall be paid from funds made available from the Education Trust Fund for that particular purpose, and such claims for prior service shall be without cost or liability to Auburn University. Contributions, plus regular interest by the employee, shall be made no later than 180 days after August 8, 1978.

(b) The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama shall administer the provisions of this section, and shall make such rules and regulations as necessary in carrying out its provisions.
Ala. Code § 36-2-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 2 / Section 36-2-4
Section 36-2-4 Residency of State Officers
Status: in_force

Every state official or officer holding office under the authority of this state and who is paid a salary or receives pecuniary profit for his or her services as such official and whose office or post of duty is located in the Capitol building or in the City of Montgomery may reside or live anywhere within this state.
Ala. Code § 36-19-1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-1
Section 36-19-1 Police Powers of Fire Marshal, Deputies and Assistants
Status: in_force

The Fire Marshal and his duly appointed deputies and assistants shall have full, general powers of peace officers in this state and may exercise such powers anywhere within the state.
Ala. Code § 36-27-154 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-154
Section 36-27-154 Notification of Employers Who Have Withdrawn from Participation
Status: in_force

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System may notify any employer who participated in the Employees’ Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation before May 25, 2000 that the cost-of-living increases provided by this article and Acts 98-272, 1998 Regular Session, 96-572, 1996 Regular Session, 94-232, 1994 Regular Session, as amended by 94-768 of the 1994 First Special Session, and 93-604, 1993 Regular Session, are available to their retirees and beneficiaries provided the employer elects to fund the increase.
Ala. Code § 36-27-8 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-8
Section 36-27-8 Continuation, Etc., of Participation in System by Employee Covered or Retired Under System Who Becomes Director or Employee of Department; Payment of Matching Contribution by Department
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who is an employee or retired employee of the State of Alabama and covered or retired under the provisions of the state Employees’ Retirement System and who becomes the director or employee of any department may elect to continue or resume his participation in the state Employees’ Retirement System.

(b) Each department of the state is hereby authorized to pay out of any funds in the State Treasury to the credit of said department such sums as are necessary to match any contributions made to the state Employees’ Retirement System by any past, present or future departmental director or employee under the provisions of this section.

(c) The Board of Control of the state Employees’ Retirement System shall make such rules and regulations as might be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and insure that any past, present or future departmental director or employee who comes under the provisions of this section shall receive full rights, privileges and benefits under the state Employees’ Retirement System for the time he serves as a state departmental director or reemployed employee.
Ala. Code § 36-11-22 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 11 / Section 36-11-22
Section 36-11-22 Preparation of Final Record of Impeachment Proceedings
Status: in_force

The clerk or, if he is the accused, the person acting as clerk of the court in which the trial is held shall make and preserve a final record of the proceedings in all respects as clerks of the circuit courts are required to do of trials held therein, and all laws applicable thereto are made applicable to final records and proceedings under this chapter.
Ala. Code § 36-17-15 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 17 / Section 36-17-15
Section 36-17-15 Conversion of Coupon Bonds into Registered Bonds and Vice Versa
Status: in_force

(a) All bonds of the State of Alabama of every kind and character heretofore issued which constitute a direct obligation of the State of Alabama, and for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the State of Alabama is pledged, may be converted or exchanged from coupon bonds into registered bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities and may be converted or exchanged from registered bonds into coupon bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities in such manner that coupon bonds and registered bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities shall be interchangeable, at the option of the holder thereof.

(b) The Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized to prescribe regulations for the registration of bonds and for the conversion or exchange of coupon bonds into registered bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities and for the conversion or exchange of registered bonds into coupon bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities, so that coupon bonds and registered bonds of the same series, denominations and maturities shall be interchangeable, at the option of the holder thereof, on all issues of bonds described in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Upon the issuance of a registered bond for a coupon bond, all matured and unearned coupons on said bonds shall be first clipped from the said bond by the Treasurer and cancelled.

(d) The fee to be paid on each such conversion or exchange of a registered bond to a coupon bond shall be $2.00 for each $1,000.00, or fraction thereof, of face value of bonds so converted or exchanged, and the fee to be paid on each such conversion or exchange of a coupon bond to a registered bond shall be $.50 for each $1,000.00 or fraction thereof of face value of bonds so converted or exchanged, which fees shall be paid to the Treasurer and shall be placed to the credit of the General Fund of the State.

(e) The Treasurer shall keep a full and complete record of all coupon bonds which are converted or exchanged into registered bonds and a full and complete record of all registered bonds which are converted or exchanged into coupon bonds, with the respective numbers of such bonds both before conversion or exchange and after conversion or exchange, the amount or denomination thereof when converted or exchanged and the name and address of the registered holders of all bonds which are converted or exchanged from coupon bonds into registered bonds and the name and address of all holders of registered bonds which are converted or exchanged into coupon bonds. Such registered bonds can be transferred only by an appropriate change of registration in such manner and form as may be prescribed by the Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor.

(f) Interest on all registered bonds shall be paid by check or draft of the Treasurer mailed to the holder at the address shown by the registration records.

(g) No coupon bond shall be converted into a registered bond and no registered bond shall be converted into a coupon bond within 15 days prior to any interest payment date.
Ala. Code § 36-6-63 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-63
Section 36-6-63 Authority to Revise Schedule of Rates in Existing Pay Plans
Status: in_force

The Director of the State Personnel Department shall revise the schedule of rates set forth in the pay plan for state employees and shall certify the same to the state Comptroller, who shall issue warrants in accordance therewith. With respect to all court officials and employees within the Unified Judicial System who serve the trial and appellate courts of the state and the Administrative Office of Courts, the Administrative Director of Courts shall revise the schedule of rates set forth in the pay plan for these court officials and employees to reflect the increase provided in this division, and shall certify the same to the state Comptroller, who shall issue warrants in accordance therewith. With respect to the legislative employees, the Secretary of the Senate for employees of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives for employees of the House of Representatives, the Director of the Legislative Reference Service for employees of the Legislative Reference Service, and the Director of the Legislative Fiscal Office for employees of the Legislative Fiscal Office, shall revise the schedule of rates set forth in the pay plan for these legislative employees to reflect the increase provided in this division, and shall certify the same to the state Comptroller, who shall issue warrants in accordance therewith.
Ala. Code § 36-27C-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27C / Section 36-27C-6
Section 36-27C-6 Participation
Status: in_force

(a) Participation in this fund shall be voluntary under regulations adopted by the board and in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code.

(b) Any person who becomes ineligible for participation in the fund due to the termination of his or her employment with an eligible employer, or due to other reasons, may leave his or her vested accumulations on account with the fund. In that event, no further contributions may be accepted on the account of the person unless the person is reemployed by an eligible employer or again becomes eligible.
Ala. Code § 36-5-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-2
Section 36-5-2 When Bonds to Be Filed
Status: in_force

In all cases, official bonds must be filed in the proper office within 40 days after the declaration of election or after the appointment to office, except bonds of tax assessors and tax collectors which shall be filed on or before September 1 next after their election or appointment.
Ala. Code § 36-6-71 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-71
Section 36-6-71 2006 Salary Increase
Status: in_force

(a) Effective with the first payday on or after June 1, 2006, state troopers and corporals and such other comparable classifications of arresting officers employed by the Department of Public Safety shall receive a four step, 10 percent, salary increase; sergeants and lieutenants and such other comparable classifications of arresting officers employed by the department shall receive a three step, seven and one-half percent, salary increase; and captains and higher ranking officers and such other comparable classifications of arresting officers employed by the department shall receive a two step, five percent, salary increase. The salary increases provided herein shall not affect normal annual merit raise considerations.

(b) The Director of the State Personnel Department shall revise the classifications, schedule of rates, and ranges set forth in the pay plan for arresting officers and other comparable classifications employed by the Department of Public Safety to reflect the increases provided in subsection (a) to ensure that the new classifications, schedule of rates, and ranges shall be applicable to both current and future arresting officers and other comparable classifications employed by the Department of Public Safety and shall send the revised classifications, rates, and ranges to the State Comptroller who shall issue warrants in accordance therewith.
Ala. Code § 36-12-43 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 12 / Section 36-12-43
Section 36-12-43 Public Policy; Definitions; Applicability
Status: in_force

(a) It is the policy of the state to promptly provide residents with the opportunity to inspect public records and to request a copy, subject to payment of reasonable fees and to appropriate protections for private, confidential, privileged, and other nonpublic information, and to the interest of the general public in having the business of government carried on efficiently and without undue interference.

(b) For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) BUSINESS DAY. A day that the public officer’s office is open to the public and conducting normal operations.

(2) PUBLIC OFFICER. A public officer or his or her designee responsible for responding to public records requests.

(3) RESIDENT. An individual who is permanently domiciled in Alabama with an expectation to remain in Alabama as demonstrated by reasonable proof of residency such as, but not limited to, an Alabama driver license or voter registration.

(4) STANDARD REQUEST. A public records request that seeks one or more specifically and discretely identified public records that the public officer determines would take less than eight hours of staff time to process considering the time needed to identify and retrieve any responsive records and any time needed to redact or take other measures to withhold protected information. A standard request should require no or minimal clarification by the requester.

(5) SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE. A response to a proper public records request that sets forth the public officer’s ultimate position on the substance of the request. The term includes, but is not limited to, the following, in whole or in part:

a. A statement that the public records are provided as attached or enclosed.

b. A statement that access to the requested public records will be provided at a set time, place, and location during regular business hours or at a time, place, and location mutually agreeable to the public officer and the requester.

c. A statement that the public officer is prepared to provide the requested public records to the requester upon payment of a reasonable fee.

d. A statement that denies the request with reasons stated therefor.

e. A statement that denies the request on the grounds that the requested public record does not exist within the government agency. If known to the public officer, the public officer may identify the proper custodian or location for the requested public record.

f. A statement that denies the request for failure to substantially complete a standard request form.

g. A statement that denies the request for failure to substantially comply with the written procedures established by the public officer for such request.

h. A statement that denies the request because the records sought are not public.

(6) TIME-INTENSIVE REQUEST. A public records request that the public officer determines would take more than eight hours of staff time to process considering the time needed to identify and retrieve any responsive records and any time needed to redact or take other measures to withhold protected information.

(c) This article is not intended to, and does not, change or in any way affect any protections for private, confidential, privileged, or other nonpublic information provided under applicable law.
Ala. Code § 36-11-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 11 / Section 36-11-3
Section 36-11-3 Investigations of Alleged Misconduct or Incompetency of Public Officers by Grand Juries; Disposition of Grand Jury Reports
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of every grand jury to investigate and make diligent inquiry concerning any alleged misconduct or incompetency of any public officer in the county which may be brought to its notice; and, if, on such investigation and inquiry, it finds that such officer, for any cause mentioned in this chapter, ought to be removed from office, it shall so report to the court, setting forth the facts, which report shall be entered on the minutes of the court. If the officer so reported against is one of those included in Section 174, Article 7, of the constitution, the clerk of the court shall transmit a certified copy of such report to the Attorney General. If the officer so reported against is the presiding judge of the court, the report must not be made to the court or entered on the minutes; and, in such cases, the report of the grand jury must be signed by the foreman and countersigned by the district attorney, who must transmit the same to the Attorney General.
Ala. Code § 36-21-55.4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-55.4
Section 36-21-55.4 Compliance with the Reporting Requirements
Status: in_force

(a) The Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission shall randomly audit law enforcement agencies’ compliance with the reporting requirements under Section 36-21-55.1.

(b)(1) If the commission determines that a law enforcement agency is not in compliance with the requirements under Section 36-21-55.1, it shall notify the law enforcement agency by registered or certified mail of the results of its audit. The law enforcement agency shall have 30 days from receipt of notice to reach compliance with the requirements of Section 36-21-55.1. If a law enforcement agency does not reach compliance within 30 days from receipt of notice, the commission may assess a civil penalty against the agency in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation and an additional one hundred dollars ($100) thereafter for each day the information is not reported to the commission for entry into the database pursuant to Section 36-21-55.1.

(2) If the commission determines that the law enforcement agency made a good-faith effort to report the information as required under Section 36-21-55.1, or that noncompliance was due to a technical error, the commission may waive the assessment of any civil penalty.

(3) Any civil penalties collected by the commission under this subsection shall be deposited into the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Fund to be used by the commission for the implementation and enforcement of this division.

(c) The commission may adopt rules relating to the audit and assessment, collection, or waiver of civil penalties as provided in this section.

(d) Nothing in this division shall be construed as reducing the standards and requirements established by the commission.
Ala. Code § 36-20-31 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 20 / Section 36-20-31
Section 36-20-31 Bond
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-295, p. 544, §2, effective January 1, 2012.
Ala. Code § 36-12-45 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 12 / Section 36-12-45
Section 36-12-45 Written Procedures Concerning Public Records; Request Form
Status: in_force

(a)(1) A resident may request access to a public record by following the written procedures for accepting such requests established by the public officer having custody of the public record. The written procedures may establish any of the following:

a. A standard request form for use in submitting a public records request.

b. A designee, such as a public records coordinator, to whom a public records request shall be addressed.

c. The permissible method or methods of transmitting a public records request.

d. Any other policies pertaining to the process for submitting a public records request.

(2) The public officer shall make his or her written procedures concerning public records reasonably available to the public.

(3) A public officer shall not be obligated to respond to a public records request that is not made pursuant to the public officer’s written procedures.

(4) Written procedures need not be adopted as administrative rules pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act.

(b) In the absence of written procedures to the contrary, each of the following shall apply:

(1) A resident may submit a public records request by delivering the request by hand or by mailing the request to the main office or principal place of business of the public officer having custody of the public record.

(2) Receipt of a hand-delivered public records request occurs when the request is received at the public officer’s main office or principal place of business. Receipt of a mailed public records request occurs on the date of actual receipt by the public officer. A certified mail receipt or similar signed postage receipt shall be prima facie evidence of receipt by the public officer.

(3) The standard request form shall read substantially as follows , provided a public officer may require additional information or modify the order or format in which the information is requested:

“Requester’s contact information:

Name:__________________________________________________

Phone number:__________________________________________

Email address:_________________________________________

Street address:________________________________________

City:__________________________________________________

State:_________________________________________________

Zip:___________________________________________________

Agency you are requesting public records from:

_______________________________________________________

Date of request:_______________________________________

Records requested: (Be as specific as possible. A public officer is not obligated to respond to a request that is vague, ambiguous, overly broad, or unreasonable in scope, nor is a public officer obligated to respond to a request that seeks records that do not exist or materials that are not public records. Additionally, extensive requests for public records may increase the fees to cover the administrative cost of searching and copying the requested records.)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Payment of fees may be required before your request is fulfilled.

By submitting this request, you certify that you are an Alabama resident with standing to make a request for public records pursuant to Alabama law.”
Ala. Code § 36-25-10 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 25 / Section 36-25-10
Section 36-25-10 Representation of Client or Constituent Before Board, Regulatory Body, Department, Etc
Status: in_force

If a public official or public employee, or family member of the public employee or family member of the public official, or a business with which the person is associated, represents a client or constituent for a fee before any quasi-judicial board or commission, regulatory body, or executive department or agency, notice of the representation shall be given within 10 days after the first day of the appearance. Notice shall be filed with the commission in the manner prescribed by it. No member of the Legislature shall for a fee, reward, or other compensation represent any person, firm, or corporation before the Public Service Commission or the State Board of Adjustment.
Ala. Code § 36-25A-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 25A / Section 36-25A-4
Section 36-25A-4 Maintenance of Records
Status: in_force

A governmental body shall maintain accurate records of its meetings, excluding executive sessions, setting forth the date, time, place, members present or absent, and action taken at each meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, the records of each meeting shall become a public record and be made available to the public as soon as practicable after approval.
Ala. Code § 36-35-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 35 / Section 36-35-2
Section 36-35-2 Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) BOARD. The Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board created by Section 36-35-4 to administer the program.

(2) COOPERATIVE. A business entity functioning on a cooperative basis that distributes its income to a particular member in proportion with that member’s use of the cooperative on a patronage basis.

(3) DEPARTMENT. Any department, agency, office, or program administered by the state for which the board or director has negotiated, or entered an agreement with a pharmacy benefits manager or cooperative to negotiate, a prescription drug rebate, or discount.

(4) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. An executive director employed by the board to administer this chapter and the program.

(5) GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. Any department of the State of Alabama; any county government or municipal government; any school system, college, or university; or any public authority.

(6) MANUFACTURER. A manufacturer of prescription drugs as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-S(k)(5), including a subsidiary or affiliate of a manufacturer.

(7) PARTICIPATING RETAIL PHARMACY. A retail pharmacy or other business licensed to dispense prescription drugs in this state that participates in state employee health insurance plans.

(8) PRESCRIPTION DRUG BUYING GROUP. Entities formed to enable retail pharmacies to aggregate their buying power in negotiating discounts and/or rebates on the purchase of pharmaceutical products from the manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, including, but not limited to, cooperatives and pharmacy benefits managers. The term pharmacy benefits manager includes any entity that procures prescription drugs at a negotiated rate for dispensing within this state to a department or governmental entity.

(9) PROGRAM. The Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Program established by this chapter relating to supplemental drug rebates, and negotiated pricing of drugs.

(10) WHOLESALER. A business licensed pursuant to state law to distribute prescription drugs in this state.
Ala. Code § 36-26-38 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-38
Section 36-26-38 Political Activities Prohibited
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall be appointed or promoted to or demoted or dismissed from any position in the classified service or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to employment in the classified service because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. No person shall seek or attempt to use any political endorsement in connection with any appointment to a position in the classified service. No person shall use or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence, whether possessed or anticipated, to secure or attempt to secure for any person an appointment or advantage in appointment to a position in the classified service or an increase in pay or other advantage in employment in any such position for the purpose of influencing the vote or political action of any person or for any consideration. No employee in the classified service and no member of the board shall, directly or indirectly, pay or promise to pay any assessment, subscription or contribution for any political organization or purpose or solicit or take any part in soliciting any such assessment, subscription or contribution under coercion; provided, however, it shall be unlawful for any officer or employee to solicit any type political campaign contributions from other employees who work for said officer or employee in a subordinate capacity. No employee in the classified service shall be a member of any national, state or local committee of a political party or an officer of a partisan political club or a candidate for nomination or election to any public office or shall take any part in the management or affairs of any political party or in any political campaign, except on his personal time and to exercise his right as a citizen privately to express his opinion and to cast his vote; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit any person in the classified service from serving out the term of a party office which he had been elected at the time this chapter goes into effect. Any employee in the classified service may engage in political action or political activities on personal time before and after work, holidays and during approved leave.

(b) Any officer or employee in the classified service who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall forfeit his office or position.
Ala. Code § 36-23-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 23 / Section 36-23-4
Section 36-23-4 Bond
Status: in_force

Before entering upon the duties of his office, the constable must give bond as prescribed by law.

The official bonds of constables shall be $1,000.00, the premiums on said bonds to be paid by the persons making such bonds without expense to the county.
Ala. Code § 36-26-36 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-36
Section 36-26-36 Partial Payment of Accrued Sick Leave at Time of Retirement or Death; Calculation, Accumulation, and Use of Sick Leave
Status: in_force

(a) Upon retirement, each employee who acquires sick leave pursuant to the state Merit System shall receive payment of 50 percent of his or her accrued and unused sick leave, not to include escrowed sick leave as provided herein, at the time of his or her retirement, and payments for the sick leave shall be made at the same rate as his or her regular pay, not to exceed 600 hours.

(b) When a state employee in the classified service dies while in active service to the state, the estate of the deceased employee shall receive a monetary payment of 50 percent of the accrued and unused sick leave, not to exceed 600 hours, which the employee was credited with at the time of his or her death.

(c) The state shall calculate sick leave each pay period. Sick leave earned over 1200 hours shall be considered excess sick leave which shall be accrued and credited to the employee for use as sick leave in the year the excess sick leave is earned.

(d) Excess sick leave over 1200 hours shall be placed in escrow for the state employee who earned the sick leave to be used only as may be provided by State Personnel Board rules.

(e) This section does not preclude the accumulation of and payment for a greater number of hours of sick leave to an employee upon retirement pursuant to Section 16-1-18.1.
Ala. Code § 36-27-51.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-51.1
Section 36-27-51.1 Purchase of Credit for Prior Service by Member of City Retirement System
Status: in_force

Any active and contributing member of a city retirement system that participates in the Employees’ Retirement System under Section 36-27-6 who rendered prior service to a non-participating employer funded by a city and a county which was eligible for participation in the Employees’ Retirement System under Section 36-27-6, may purchase up to eight years of credit in the Employees’ Retirement System for the prior service if the member pays to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees’ Retirement System prior to the date of his or her retirement a sum equal to the full actuarial determined cost for each year of service purchased as determined by the actuary for the system. The local governmental entity which currently employs the member shall furnish the Employees’ Retirement System with documentation of the prior service being claimed by the member as requested by the retirement system. Notwithstanding the foregoing language, no member of the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or in any other retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program.
Ala. Code § 36-30-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 30 / Section 36-30-7
Section 36-30-7 Construction of Article; Decision of Awarding Authority Final
Status: in_force

(a) This article shall not be construed to give any person a right of action against the State of Alabama in any court for the recovery of the compensation authorized by this article. This article shall not be construed to take away any right of action in any court under any other law for the recovery of damages for the death of a first responder; nor, in the event of the death of a first responder who was an employee of the State of Alabama at the time of the injury which proximately caused his or her death, shall this article be construed to take away the right or privilege of the surviving dependents of the first responder to file a claim for damages with the State Board of Adjustment pursuant to any other law.

(b) The decision of the awarding authority shall be final and shall not be subject to appeal or review by any court.
Ala. Code § 36-21-182 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-182
Section 36-21-182 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Compensation
Status: in_force

All board members shall be paid thirty dollars ($30) per day and mileage and per diem for attendance of board meetings. When a board member is traveling on fund business, he or she shall receive the same mileage and per diem as allowed for state employees while attending state business.
Ala. Code § 36-22-61 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-61
Section 36-22-61 Payroll Deductions; Refunds; Widow’s Allowance; Effect of Other Retirement Plans
Status: in_force

The governing body of each county shall begin deducting, upon July 19, 1979, and each month thereafter, from the salaries of such sheriffs an amount equal to six percent of the monthly salary paid such sheriff. Such sum shall be deducted monthly and paid into the general fund of the county. If any sheriff, subject to the provisions of this article, shall end his tenure of office prior to having reached age of 55 years, but having had 16 years of service as a law enforcement officer, 12 of which have been as sheriff, his supernumerary allowance as set out in Section 36-22-62, shall be vested and held in the general fund of the county until he attains the age of 55, at which time, or any time thereafter, he may elect to become a supernumerary sheriff as set out in Section 36-22-60. If any sheriff, subject to the provisions of this article, shall end his tenure of office prior to having had 16 years of service as a law enforcement officer, 12 of which was served as sheriff, as provided herein, an amount equal to the total paid by him into the general fund of the county under the provisions of this section, shall be repaid to him. In the event a sheriff should die in office prior to his eligibility, then, in that event, the total amount paid by him to the general fund of the county hereunder shall be paid to his named beneficiary. In the event a sheriff dies in office who immediately prior to his death was eligible for supernumerary status but had not elected to be commissioned as a supernumerary sheriff, then, in that event, his spouse shall be entitled to the same benefits as if he had elected to be commissioned as a supernumerary sheriff. In the event of the death of any supernumerary sheriff in whose favor a monthly retirement allowance is accruing, his spouse shall be entitled to a monthly allowance equal to 50 percentum of the retirement allowance the supernumerary sheriff was receiving when he died, as hereinafter specified, for a period of up to 15 years. No spouse shall receive any benefits under this article unless such spouse was married to the deceased sheriff or supernumerary sheriff at the time of his death and any benefits of a spouse under this article shall terminate in the event the spouse remarries. This section shall not apply in any county in which the sheriff of said county is eligible to become entitled to any other state or county retirement act, which he may elect to come under.
Ala. Code § 36-6-10 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-10
Section 36-6-10 Voluntary Diminution of Salary
Status: in_force

It shall be lawful for any person who is an officeholder in or of the State of Alabama or any county or municipality thereof or holding any civil office of profit under this state or any county or municipality thereof whose compensation, salary or fees is fixed by law for his services and which compensation, salary or fees cannot be or shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed under the provisions of Sections 118 or 281 of the Constitution of Alabama or Amendment No. 328 thereof to voluntarily diminish the compensation, salary or fees fixed by law to which he is entitled to such extent as he may desire.

Any person desiring voluntarily to diminish the salary, fees or compensation to which he is entitled and which is fixed by law shall sign and acknowledge an instrument in writing designating the office or position held by him and stating or declaring the amount to which he desires to diminish his salary, fees or compensation. This instrument must be acknowledged by him substantially in the form provided by law for acknowledgment of conveyances, and the acknowledgment may be taken by any officer authorized to take acknowledgment and proof of conveyances in this state. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of the state, be filed with and recorded by the Department of Finance. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of a county in the state, be filed with and recorded by the probate judge of the county which he serves. This instrument signed and acknowledged shall, where the person executing and acknowledging the instrument is an officeholder of or in the service of a municipality of the state, be filed with and recorded by the custodian of the records of the municipality.

The Department of Finance, the probate judge of the county and the custodian of the records of a municipality shall respectively provide and preserve a book in their respective offices in which to record such instruments and shall record such instruments in said book, and said book shall be a public record. A certified copy from such book shall have the same force and effect as a certified copy of a conveyance. Neither the Department of Finance nor the probate judge nor the custodian of the records of a municipality shall have the right to charge or collect any compensation for their respective services or for doing what is required to be done by them under the provisions of this section.

From and after the filing of any such instrument with the Department of Finance or with the probate judge or the custodian of the records of a municipality, the compensation or salary or fees of the person executing, acknowledging and signing the instrument shall be reduced in the amount designated in the instrument filed, and, thereafter, warrants or checks or drafts or money given in payment of the compensation, salary or fees to which the person filing the instrument is entitled shall be in the amount of the reduced compensation, salary or fees of such person in accordance with the reduction made by the instrument filed, and the person filing the said instrument shall not be entitled to more compensation, salary or fees than the reduced amount thereof as shown by the terms of the instrument filed for record.
Ala. Code § 36-18-29 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-29
Section 36-18-29 Penalty for False Entry or Alteration of Records
Status: in_force

A person who shall knowingly make any false entry or falsely alter any record of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences; or who shall intentionally destroy, mutilate, conceal, remove or otherwise impair the verity or availability of records of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences with the knowledge of a lack of authority to do so; or who shall possess a record of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and refuse to deliver up such record upon proper request of a person lawfully entitled to receive the same shall be guilty of a Class B felony.
Ala. Code § 36-27-26 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-26
Section 36-27-26 Proposed Legislation Affecting System to Be Accompanied by Actuarial Estimate of Cost
Status: in_force

All proposed legislation affecting the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama shall be accompanied by an actuarial estimate of the cost involved in such proposed legislation.
Ala. Code § 36-18-24 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-24
Section 36-18-24 Dna Database
Status: in_force

(a) The director is hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish a DNA database for the purposes of:

(1) Assisting federal, state, county, municipal, or local criminal justice and law enforcement officers or agencies in the putative identification, detection, or exclusion of persons who are the subjects of investigations or prosecutions of sex related crimes, other violent crimes, or other crimes in which biological evidence is received or recovered.

(2) Supporting identification research and protocol development of DNA forensic methods.

(3) Creating and maintaining DNA quality control standards.

(4) Assisting in the recovery or identification of human remains from natural or mass disasters.

(5) Assisting in other humanitarian purposes including the identification of missing, deceased, or unidentified persons.

(b) The DNA database shall contain DNA records which the director shall deem necessary for the implementation of this article, and also shall contain DNA records of:

(1) Persons convicted after May 6, 1994, for a felony offense.

(2) Persons confined as of May 6, 1994, under a sentence of imprisonment or involuntary incarceration or confinement in a prison, jail, or other incarceration facility as a result of any felony conviction.

(3) Persons convicted after May 6, 1994, of any offense contained in Chapter 6, Title 13A, or as the same may be hereafter amended.

(4) Persons convicted after May 6, 1994, of any attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit any offense contained in Chapter 6, Title 13A, or as the same may be hereafter amended.

(5) Persons convicted or sentenced after May 6, 1994, for any of the offenses enumerated above and serving a sentence of probation, suspended sentence, or other sentence or judgment not requiring immediate incarceration.

(6) Subject to subdivision (3) of subsection (c) of Section 36-18-25, persons arrested on or after October 1, 2010, for any felony offense or for any sexual offense including, but not limited to, those that would require registration pursuant to the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act, commencing with Section 15-20A-1, of Chapter 20A, Title 15, former Community Notification Act, Article 2, of Chapter 20 of Title 15.
Ala. Code § 36-19-27 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-27
Section 36-19-27 Failure of Person or Corporation to Comply with Provisions of Chapter as to Requirements of Fire Marshal
Status: in_force

Any person or persons or corporation failing to comply with the provisions of this article as to the requirements of the Fire Marshal shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00 for each violation thereof.
Ala. Code § 36-16-9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 16 / Section 36-16-9
Section 36-16-9 Property Inventory Control Division - Duty of Examiners of Public Accounts as to State Personal Property
Status: in_force

The Examiners of Public Accounts, in making their examination or audit of the accounts and records of each state department or agency, shall compare the inventory of personal property of the department or agency kept by the Property Inventory Control Division with personal property in the custody of the department or agency, and shall include a statement of the result of the comparison in their report. The value of any personal property lost to the state due to the neglect or willful act of the person having the custody of the property shall be recoverable from such persons in an appropriate action instituted on behalf of the state by the Attorney General.
Ala. Code § 36-26-20 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-20
Section 36-26-20 Employee Training Programs
Status: in_force

The director shall devise plans for and cooperate with appointing authorities and other supervising officials in the conduct of employee training programs to the end that the quality of service rendered by persons in the classified service may be continually improved.
Ala. Code § 36-25-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 25 / Section 36-25-7
Section 36-25-7 Offering, Soliciting, or Receiving Anything for Purpose of Influencing Official Action; Money Solicited or Received in Addition to That Received in Official Capacity
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall offer or give to a public official or public employee or a member of the household of a public employee or a member of the household of the public official and none of the aforementioned shall solicit or receive anything for the purpose of corruptly influencing official action, regardless of whether or not the thing solicited or received is a thing of value.

(b) No public official or public employee shall solicit or receive anything for himself or herself or for a family member of the public employee or family member of the public official for the purpose of corruptly influencing official action, regardless of whether or not the thing solicited or received is a thing of value.

(c) No person shall offer or give a family member of the public official or family member of the public employee anything for the purpose of corruptly influencing official action, regardless of whether or not the thing offered or given is a thing of value.

(d) No public official or public employee, shall solicit or receive any money in addition to that received by the public official or public employee in an official capacity for advice or assistance on matters concerning the Legislature, lobbying a legislative body, an executive department or any public regulatory board, commission or other body of which he or she is a member. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a public official or public employee from the performance of his or her official duties or responsibilities.

(e) For purposes of this section, to act corruptly means to act voluntarily, deliberately, and dishonestly to either accomplish an unlawful end or result or to use an unlawful method or means to accomplish an otherwise lawful end or result.
Ala. Code § 36-27E-10 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27E / Section 36-27E-10
Section 36-27E-10 Diversity of Personnel Employed and Vendors Hired
Status: in_force

All personnel employed and vendors hired by contract with funds available to the trust fund and trustees under subdivision (b)(4) of Section 36-36-5, shall reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the state.
Ala. Code § 36-27-73 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-73
Section 36-27-73 Deduction for Administrative Costs
Status: in_force

The Employees’ Retirement System may deduct in 12 equal installments from the retirement allowance payable to a retired member any additional contributions necessary to pay the administrative costs incurred in granting the credit hereunder in the event its Board of Control and consulting actuaries thereto determine that the amounts contributed by the member under the provisions hereof are insufficient to pay such administrative costs.
Ala. Code § 36-21-49 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-49
Section 36-21-49 Agreements and Cooperation by Law Enforcement Agencies
Status: in_force

Each state, county, municipal, and public college or university law enforcement agency in this state may make agreements and arrangements for cooperation and mutual assistance in law enforcement work with the commission and with each other.
Ala. Code § 36-29-50 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29 / Section 36-29-50
Section 36-29-50 High Deductible Health Plan with a Federally Qualified Health Savings Account
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT or HSA. A savings or other account meeting the requirements for favorable tax treatment under 26 U.S.C. §223, as amended.

(2) HIGH DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH PLAN or HDHP. That term as defined in 26 U.S.C. §223(c)(2), as amended, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

(3) PARTICIPANT. An eligible active or retired state employee and his or her dependents as determined by the State Employees’ Insurance Board.

(b) The State Employees’ Insurance Board may offer a high deductible health plan with a federally qualified health savings account (HDHP-HSA) to eligible active and retired state employees and their dependents. A retired state employee eligible for or entitled to Medicare benefits under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act is not eligible to participate in the HDHP-HSA. The terms and conditions of the HDHP-HSA shall be established by the board in accordance with federal requirements and limitations.

(c) A participant in the HDHP-HSA may receive an employer contribution into the participant’s HSA from the State Employees’ Insurance Fund in an amount to be determined by the board. The employer contributions into the participant’s HSA shall not constitute compensation to an employee for the purposes of any statute fixing or limiting the compensation of the employee.

(d) A participant in the HDHP-HSA is eligible to deposit the participant’s own funds into a HSA. Each department, agency, or county health department on behalf of the state may deduct or reduce from salary or wages amounts voluntarily designated by a participant pursuant to salary reduction agreement to participate in the HDHP-HSA. The amount by which a state employee’s salary or wage is reduced pursuant to a salary reduction agreement authorized by this article shall continue to be included as earnable compensation for the purpose of computing benefits under the State Employees’ Retirement System and the Teachers’ Retirement System.
Ala. Code § 36-30-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 30 / Section 36-30-4
Section 36-30-4 Payment of Compensation - Paid Only to Residents of United States
Status: in_force

Compensation pursuant to this article for the death of a first responder shall be paid only to his or her designated beneficiaries or dependents who at the time of the first responder’s death were residents of the United States.
Ala. Code § 36-27-52 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-52
Section 36-27-52 Coverage for Official Court Reporters
Status: in_force

(a) Any person serving as an official court reporter on August 13, 1987, shall have one year from such date to elect to be covered by the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama in lieu of eligibility to become a supernumerary court reporter. All elections under this provision shall be in writing and filed with the Administrative Office of Courts and with the Board of Control of the state Employees’ Retirement System within the election period heretofore set forth. Provided, however, that the failure of any person to elect coverage under the Employees’ Retirement System shall not affect their eligibility to qualify for supernumerary status and any official circuit court reporter who was employed on August 13, 1987, and did not elect to be covered by the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama may, upon reemployment as an official court reporter after a lapse in service, continue to accumulate creditable service towards eligibility for supernumerary status. Any official court reporter employed prior to August 13, 1987, and who subsequently earned creditable years of service in the Employees’ Retirement System while serving as an official court reporter may have those creditable years of service transferred to the court reporters’ supernumerary program. Any official court reporter employed or appointed on or after August 13, 1987, shall automatically be covered under the Employees’ Retirement System.

(b) Official court reporters electing to be covered under the Employees’ Retirement System may elect no later than September 30, 2000, to purchase creditable service in the Employees’ Retirement System of up to five years for prior service as an official court reporter; provided that any court reporter so electing shall pay to the state Employees’ Retirement System a sum equal to the full actuarially determined cost for each year of service credit purchased as determined by the system’s actuary.
Ala. Code § 36-22-17 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-17
Section 36-22-17 Disposition of Fees, Commissions, Etc
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided herein, all fees, commissions, percentages, allowances, charges, and court costs heretofore collectible for the use of the sheriff and his or her deputies shall be collected and paid into the general fund of the county. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of Section 14-6-47, all monies paid by the state for the feeding of prisoners pursuant to Title 14, Chapter 6 shall be paid into the Prisoner Feeding Fund established in Section 14-6-47, and expended only as provided in Chapter 6.
Ala. Code § 36-6-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-2
Section 36-6-2 Succeeding Officer Entitled to Salary for Day Upon Which Inducted into Office
Status: in_force

The succeeding officer is entitled to the salary for the day upon which he is inducted into office to the exclusion of the retiring officer.
Ala. Code § 36-13-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 13 / Section 36-13-2
Section 36-13-2 Employment of Secretaries, Administrative Assistants, Stenographers, Special Investigator, Press Secretary, and Counsel
Status: in_force

The Governor may employ an executive secretary to the Governor, a recording secretary, a principal administrative assistant, stenographers, a special investigator, press secretary and administrative assistants whenever and for such period as he may deem necessary. Whenever, in his judgment, it is expedient or necessary, the Governor may employ an attorney or attorneys to advise him in his official capacity, or to institute, conduct or appear in any court or in any civil or criminal case in which the state is interested and to agree with such counsel on his compensation. The salaries of the secretaries, principal administrative assistant, stenographers, a special investigator, press secretary and administrative assistants shall be paid as the salaries of other state employees are paid. The compensation of such counsel shall be paid in the amount and at the time agreed upon out of such funds as are appropriated to the Governor’s office.
Ala. Code § 36-10-16 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 10 / Section 36-10-16
Section 36-10-16 Threatening, Etc., of Prisoners for Purposes of Extorting Confessions, Etc., or Keeping Prisoners Incommunicado
Status: in_force

No officer or person having the custody and control of the body or liberty of any person under arrest shall refuse permission to such arrested person to communicate with his friends or with an attorney nor subject any person under arrest to any form of personal violence, intimidation, indignity or threats for the purpose of extorting from such person incriminating statements or a confession. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Ala. Code § 36-27C-1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27C / Section 36-27C-1
Section 36-27C-1 Legislative Intent
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature to make available to participants a defined contribution plan as described in Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code, so as to enable the participants to conveniently and economically receive the fullest benefits offered by federal tax law as it relates to qualified defined contribution savings plans for public employees covered by a mandatory defined benefit public employee savings plan and participating in voluntary supplemental deferred compensation or tax sheltered annuity plans under Internal Revenue Code Sections 457 and 403(b) respectively.
Ala. Code § 36-30-23 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 30 / Section 36-30-23
Section 36-30-23 Eligibility for Benefits - Where Physical Examination Not Required at Time of Entry into Service
Status: in_force

(a) If a physical examination was not required at the time of entry into service, a policeman or state trooper who has had at least three years’ continuous service as a policeman or state trooper next preceding September 8, 1967, shall be deemed eligible for benefits under the provisions of this article.

(b) If a physical examination was not required at the time of entry into service, a law enforcement officer who became covered by this article pursuant to Act 2012-549 who has had at least three years’ continuous service as a law enforcement officer next preceding August 1, 2012, shall be eligible for benefits under the provisions of this article provided the eligibility requirements as provided in subdivision (4) of Section 36-30-20 are met.

(c) The provisions of this article shall not affect or modify the Workers’ Compensation Law except that no county or municipal law enforcement officer who receives benefits under this article may receive benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Law for the same occupational disease.
Ala. Code § 36-27-142 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-142
Section 36-27-142 Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Participated in the Employees’ Retirement System
Status: in_force

Commencing October 1, 1998, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to July 1, 1998, and who is receiving a monthly allowance or is eligible to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase in the amount of one half the amount of the years of service factor and the full amount (four percent) of the current gross benefit factor of the formula in Section 36-27-140. Retirees who chose Option 2, 3, or 4 shall receive the cost-of-living increase reduced by the same percentage as the reduction which occurred because of the option selected unless the designated beneficiary under the option is deceased on July 1, 1998, in which case the increase shall not be reduced. Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees of employers participating in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, shall be entitled to the increase the retiree has attained using the formula provided in Section 36-27-140 as modified by this section, reduced by the retiree’s option election factor. No retiree or beneficiary of this class shall receive a benefit increase of less than twenty dollars ($20) per month.
Ala. Code § 36-13-12 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 13 / Section 36-13-12
Section 36-13-12 Pension for Widows or Widowers of Governors
Status: in_force

Any unremarried widow or widower who was the wife or husband of any person who has held the office of Governor of Alabama during such person’s term of office as Governor shall be entitled to a pension of $1,200.00 per month, which shall be payable at the end of each month from any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, until he or she remarries or dies.
Ala. Code § 36-25-29 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 25 / Section 36-25-29
Section 36-25-29 Appropriations
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature shall appropriate such sums as it deems necessary to implement the provisions of and administer this chapter.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, the annual appropriation to the State Ethics Commission in the State General Fund Appropriations Act shall not be less than one tenth of one percent of the total State General Fund amount appropriated in the State General Fund Appropriations Act unless a lower appropriation amount is expressly approved by two-thirds of the membership of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the membership of the Senate.
Ala. Code § 36-26-10 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-10
Section 36-26-10 Exempt, Unclassified, and Classified Service Defined; Applicability of Certain Provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Positions in the service of the state shall be divided into the exempt, the unclassified, and the classified service.

(b) The exempt service shall include all of the following :

(1) Officers elected by the vote of the people.

(2) Officers and employees of the Legislature.

(3) All employees of a district attorney’s office.

(4) Members of boards and commissions, whether appointed or self-perpetuating, and heads of departments required by law to be appointed by the Governor or by boards or commissions with the approval of the Governor.

(5) All officers and employees of the state’s institutions of higher learning, teacher-training institutions and normal schools, educational, eleemosynary , and correctional institutions which are governed and controlled by boards of trustees or similar governing bodies, and secondary agricultural schools and vocational schools.

(6) All inmate help in all charitable, penal, and correctional institutions.

(7) All commissioned and warrant officers and enlisted personnel of the national guard and naval militia of the state in their respective military and naval grades.

(8) The Governor’s private secretary, legal advisor, recording secretary, and those employees of the Governor’s office paid exclusively out of the Governor’s Emergency or Contingent Funds.

(9) The employees of the Alabama State Port Authority engaged in railroad service and subject to the provisions of an act of Congress known as the Railway Labor Act as amended or as it may hereafter be amended.

(10) For each agency, up to three employees in addition to any other exempt positions as otherwise allowed by law; provided no classified employees or positions are eliminated and these positions may not be occupied by the head of an agency.

(11) For the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Transportation, and the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, one employee in addition to the number of employees provided for in subdivision (10), and in addition to any other exempt positions otherwise allowed by law, provided this position may not be occupied by the head of an agency.

The services listed in this subsection as exempt shall in no respect be subject to the provisions of this article, anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

(c) The unclassified service shall include:

(1) One confidential assistant or secretary for each board, commission , and elected officer and, when requested by the Governor, for each department head appointed by the Governor; and

(2) All employees of the Governor’s office not exempted. The positions in the unclassified service enumerated in this subsection may at the request of the appointing authority be filled by classified employees. Each of the employees thus appointed, at the conclusion of his or her occupancy of such position, shall resume his or her previous status in the classified service.

(d) The classified service shall include all other officers and positions in the state service.

(e) Except as to services denominated as exempt or unclassified services in subsections (b) and (c), the Governor shall have the power by executive order to extend the provisions of this article to include additional positions or classes of positions.

(f) Employees in the unclassified service shall be subject to the same rules of employment as apply to employees in the classified service except as to appointment and dismissal.
Ala. Code § 36-27-102 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-102
Section 36-27-102 Restrictions on the Purchase of Additional Retirement Time; Time for Payment
Status: in_force

The election to purchase additional retirement time in Section 36-27-101 shall be restricted only to previous part time employment in the Legislature. The election to purchase additional retirement time shall be restricted to part time employees or present full time employees who were previously part time employees who are now presently employed by the Legislature. The eligible legislative employee shall purchase such time by paying the additional amount he would have contributed had he been allowed to do so when the service was rendered. The contributions made under Sections 36-27-101 and 36-27-103 and this section shall be made by June 1, 1990.
Ala. Code § 36-36-9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 36 / Section 36-36-9
Section 36-36-9 Applicability of Chapter
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to define or otherwise grant any right or privilege to health care benefits or other post-employment benefits to any person other than those health care benefits or other post-employment benefits, rights, and privileges previously or already granted to employees and retired employees and their dependents by the state’s health care benefit plan or its post-employment benefit plan, if any. Such rights and privileges, if any, shall be governed by the terms of the state’s post-employment benefit plan, if any. This chapter is not intended to assure or deny any existing or future employee, retired employee, any of their dependents, or any other person of any right of employment or entitlement to any health care benefit or other post-employment benefit or limit or otherwise restrict the ability of the state to modify or eliminate any existing or future health care benefit or other post-employment benefit.
Ala. Code § 36-13-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 13 / Section 36-13-4
Section 36-13-4 Negotiation of Temporary Loans to Meet Deficiencies in Treasury
Status: in_force

Should any deficiency occur in the State Treasury at any time, the Governor may negotiate temporary loans, not to exceed $100,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to supply such deficiency.
Ala. Code § 36-27-98 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-98
Section 36-27-98 Certain Pensioners and Annuitants, Retired from Local Units Before Units Became Members and Receiving Benefits, May Receive Increase; Certain Local Units May Provide Increase
Status: in_force

(a) Any pensioner who retired from a city, town, county, or local board before the city, town, county, or local board became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, and who is receiving a monthly benefit on May 13, 1993, administered by the Employees’ Retirement System, may receive an increase in benefits in the amount of $60 per month if the city, town, county, or local board elects to fund the increase, provided the pensioner retired prior to October 1, 1992. For purposes of this section, a pensioner is a retiree who earned retirement in any public pension plan created by the Legislature or a political subdivision.

(b) Any annuitant who retired from a city, town, county, or local board before the city, town, county, or local board became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, and who is receiving a monthly benefit on May 13, 1993, administered by the Employees’ Retirement System, may receive $30 per month if the city, town, county, or local board elects to fund the increase.

(c) Any city, county, or local board affiliated with the Employees’ Retirement System on October 1, 1993, may provide the cost-of-living increase pursuant to this article to any retiree or beneficiary who retired prior to October 1, 1992, if the local unit elects to fund the increase.
Ala. Code § 36-32-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 32 / Section 36-32-3
Section 36-32-3 Officers; Powers and Duties; Compensation; Expenditures and Revenues; Education and Training; Facilities
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members at the first regular quarterly meeting of the calendar year.

(b) The commission may do all of the following:

(1) Organize the Alabama Fire College by appointing an executive director, assistant directors, and such officers as the interest of the Alabama Fire College may require.

(2) Remove the executive director or any assistant or other officer.

(3) Fix, increase, or reduce the compensation of the executive director or any assistant or other officer.

(4) Institute, regulate, alter, or modify the government of the Alabama Fire College as the commission may deem advisable.

(5) Prescribe courses of instruction related to the mission of the Alabama Fire College.

(6) Establish the cost of any prescribed course of study related to the mission of the Alabama Fire College.

(7) Confer certifications as are usually conferred by similar institutions related to the mission of the Alabama Fire College.

(c) The commission may delegate to the executive director such powers and functions in the administration of the affairs of the fire college as the commission may deem proper, including the hiring, firing, dismissal, nonrenewal, discipline, promotion, and supervision of any employee of the Alabama Fire College and of the commission. The commission may direct the executive director to coordinate the certification of any person regulated by the commission, to conduct investigations and fulfill other duties as provided in Section 36-32-5, and to provide any technical assistance programs. The commission shall set the salaries of the faculty, administrative personnel, and support staff subject to the salary schedule adopted by the commission. The salary schedule adopted by the commission shall be identical to the salary schedule adopted by the State Board of Education for employees of state community and technical colleges. The State Board of Education may not be held liable for the failure of the commission to adopt such salary schedule. Employees of the commission shall participate in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama, subject to all rules, regulations, and conditions thereof and shall be considered employees as defined in subdivision (1) of Section 16-25A-1. In the event an employee of the commission is receiving a monthly benefit from the Teachers’ Retirement System by virtue of his or her retirement from employment with the commission, he or she shall be considered a retired employee as defined in subdivision (2) of Section 16-25A-1, allowing participation in the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Plan, as established in Chapter 25A of Title 16.

(d) Members of the commission shall receive fifty dollars ($50) per diem for attending meetings of the commission, plus travel expenses as provided for by state travel law, provided funds are available.

(e) The commission, the Department of Postsecondary Education, and any institution of postsecondary education may contract with the commission for the provision of services to students or for the fulfillment of the educational mission of the Alabama Fire College. The commission shall report annually to independent auditors employed by the commission all expenditures and revenues. The independent auditor shall be secured by the commission through a competitive bid process. In addition to an independent audit, the commission shall also report annually to the Chief Examiner all expenditures and revenues. The commission shall be audited by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts in accordance with Section 41-5-14. The findings of both audits shall be reported to and reviewed by the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee of the Alabama Firefighters’ Personnel Standards and Education Commission.

(f) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter, amend, modify, repeal, or affect in any way the provisions in Chapter 18 of Title 22 or to prohibit or limit in any way the authority of the Alabama Department of Public Health to establish standards for the training, qualification, scope of privilege, certification, licensing of emergency medical services personnel and for the operation, design, equipment and licensing of ambulances, and ambulance service operators. The commission may authorize the Alabama Fire College to provide education and training to firefighters and trainees in emergency medical services, but only in a manner that complies with Chapter 18 of Title 22 and the rules of the State Board of Health.

(g) The commission may not move its facilities unless authorized by an act of the Alabama Legislature.
Ala. Code § 36-19-24 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-24
Section 36-19-24 Reports by Insurance Companies as to Fire Losses
Status: in_force

Every fire insurance company transacting business in this state shall report to the Fire Marshal, through the secretary or other representative of the insurance company, all fire losses on all property insured in such company within the state, showing the owner and occupant of the premises burned, the date of the fire, the location, the cause of the fire, occupancy, the amount of insurance, the sound value of the property and the amount of loss paid. Such report shall be made monthly on or before the tenth day of each month. In case of fire of suspicious origin, an immediate preliminary report shall be made through a representative of the insurance company, stating the name of the owner and occupant of the premises burned, the date of the fire, the location and occupancy and such other facts and circumstances as known by them tending to establish the cause and origin of the fire. Such report shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any report that such company may be required to make by any law of the state to the Commissioner of Insurance or other state officer.
Ala. Code § 36-29-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 29 / Section 36-29-7
Section 36-29-7 Payment of Employer’s Contribution; Coverage for Dependents; Changes to Contributions; Withholding of Employee’s Contribution; State Employees’ Insurance Fund
Status: in_force

(a) The board is hereby authorized to provide under the provisions of this chapter that the employer’s contribution to the cost of such plan for coverage of the employee and retiree shall be paid by the employer.

(b) Each employee and retiree shall be entitled to have his or her spouse and dependent children, as defined by the rules and regulations of the board, included in the coverage provided upon agreeing to pay the employee’s contribution of the health insurance premium for such dependents. The board shall adopt regulations governing the discontinuance and resumption by such employees and retirees of coverage for dependents.

(c) Subject to Section 36-29-19.3, any further changes in employee or retiree contribution to the health insurance premium or other out-of-pocket expenses including, but not limited to, any surcharge, copay, or deductible may only be enacted when: (1) the executive director certifies that after proper evaluation the increase is justified and (2) the change is approved by at least a simple majority vote of the board members present.

(d) As used in this section, the employer shall mean the fund from which the salaries of such employees are paid. There is hereby appropriated annually from each fund amounts sufficient to provide the employer’s contribution of the health insurance premium. In the case of those departments supported wholly by transfers from other state funds, there is hereby appropriated from the supporting funds such additional amounts as may be necessary to pay the sums required to pay the employer’s contribution costs of employees and retirees of each department so supported in the same proportion as the other state funds contribute to the support and maintenance of such department.

(e) During any period in which an employee or an employee’s dependents are covered under this chapter, there shall be withheld from the salary payment of such employee the employee’s contribution to the cost of coverage.

(f) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the State Employees’ Insurance Fund. Such fund shall consist of and there shall be deposited into such fund all appropriations made from employer funds, under the provisions of subsection (d) of this section and all premiums paid by employees and retirees under the provisions of subsection (e) of this section and any other premiums paid under the provisions of this chapter. The board shall designate a custodian of this fund who shall be authorized to make deposits into and payments therefrom in accordance with contracts entered into by the board.
Ala. Code § 36-18-51 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-51
Section 36-18-51 Establishment of Fund; Management of Money
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby established a special fund in the State Treasury, to be known as the Alabama Chemical Testing Training and Equipment Trust Fund.

(b) The State Treasurer shall invest money in the fund as is provided by law but all earnings from the fund shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund, and shall not revert to the General Fund. However, no funds shall be withdrawn or expended except as budgeted and allotted according to law and only in the amounts authorized by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill or other appropriation bills.
Ala. Code § 36-26-27 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-27
Section 36-26-27 Dismissals and Disciplining of Employees Generally
Status: in_force

(a) An appointing authority may dismiss a classified employee whenever he considers the good of the service will be served thereby, for reasons which shall be stated in writing, served on the affected employee and a copy furnished to the director, which action shall become a public record. The dismissed employee may, within 10 days after notice, appeal from the action of the appointing authority by filing with the board and the appointing authority a written answer to the charges. The board shall, if demand is made in writing by the dismissed employee within 10 days after notice of discharge, order a public hearing and, if the charges are proved unwarranted, order the reinstatement of the employee under such conditions as the board may determine. Upon a majority vote of the board, the board may impose a punishment other than termination including but not limited to a reinstatement with forfeiture of back wages and benefits between the date of termination and the date of the board’s order reinstating the employee, or a suspension up to and including 30 days.

(b) In addition to removal by an appointing authority, persons in the classified service may be removed or disciplined in the manner described in this subsection. Charges may be filed by any officer, citizen or taxpayer of the state with the director who shall, within five days, cause a copy to be served upon the person complained against and shall set a day not less than 10 nor more than 20 days after such charges have been served on such employee for a public hearing of such charges. This hearing may be before the director, a special agent appointed for the purpose by the director or the board itself. If before the director or a special agent, the director or special agent shall take testimony offered in support and denial of such charges and from the same submit to the board, within five days, a finding of facts and law involved and a recommended decision. The board at its next regular or special meeting shall consider said report and modify, alter, set aside or affirm said report and certify its findings to the appointing authority who shall forthwith put the same into effect. If the board hears said charges directly or requires the transcribing and submission of the testimony taken before the director or special agent, it shall make up and file its own findings and decision. The decision of the board based upon its records and the testimony shall be final.

(c) In proceedings under this section it shall be no defense or excuse for a forbidden act or for an omission to observe the laws or rules that such act or omission was directed by a superior, unless a written direction or order from such superior to that effect is proved. If any employee in the state service shall willfully refuse or fail to appear before any court or judge, any legislative committee or any officer, board or body authorized to conduct any hearing or inquiry or, having appeared, shall refuse to testify or answer any question relating to the affairs or government of the state or the conduct of any state officer or employee on the ground that his testimony or answers would tend to incriminate him or shall refuse to waive immunity from prosecution on account of any matter about which he may be asked to testify at any such hearing or inquiry, such conduct shall be cause for removal.
Ala. Code § 36-22-64 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 22 / Section 36-22-64
Section 36-22-64 Election Between Retirement Plans. (Amended by Act 2026-571)
Status: in_force

AMENDED BY ACT 2026-571, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR REVISED LANGUAGE.

If any sheriff is eligible for retirement benefits under any other county, state or municipal retirement plan or act, then, in that event, he shall elect the plan or act in which he desires to participate and shall so notify the proper authority within 60 days after he becomes eligible for any payments under this article. It is further provided, however, that such election shall not affect any such person’s entitlement to benefits under the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 21 of this title.
Ala. Code § 36-27-138 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-138
Section 36-27-138 Persons Receiving Medicaid Benefits
Status: in_force

Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article shall not be entitled to receive the increase. Any person who subsequently applies for benefits under the Medicaid program and that person’s eligibility to receive benefits is impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article, shall not be entitled to receive the increase subsequent to the date that the member files application for benefits under the Medicaid program.
Ala. Code § 36-23-5 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 23 / Section 36-23-5
Section 36-23-5 Constables Deemed Conservators of Peace
Status: in_force

Every constable shall be a conservator of the peace within his county.
Ala. Code § 36-16-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 16 / Section 36-16-4
Section 36-16-4 Bond
Status: in_force

Before entering upon his duties of office, the Auditor shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in the amount of $25,000.00, for the faithful performance of his duties.
Ala. Code § 36-27-9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-9
Section 36-27-9 Payment of Member’s and Employer’s Contributions for County Engineers by State Department of Transportation
Status: in_force

Membership payments of county engineers eligible for participation as members of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama under Section 36-27-4, to the extent of the State Department of Transportation contribution to the county for the engineer’s salary, shall be made as follows:

(1) The State Director of Transportation shall cause to be deducted from the state’s payment to the county for the engineer’s salary the member’s contribution and employer’s contribution at the rates provided by law and remit the contribution to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama in the same manner as for department employees. The State Department of Transportation shall further contribute to the employing county an amount equal to the employer’s contribution for the county engineer retirement from the same funds from which state’s contribution for salary occurred, said contribution to be in addition to all other contributions authorized by Section 11-6-4 or any other law.

(2) For service rendered from October 1, 1945, to September 30, 1965, by the county engineer to the State Department of Transportation or as county engineer, the county engineer shall pay to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama the contributions he would have paid had he been eligible for participation to the extent of the State Department of Transportation contribution to his salary plus regular interest under rules and regulations as may be required by the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama.

(3) Immediately after September 30, 1965, the Director of Transportation shall cause to be paid to the Employees’ Retirement System from the same funds from which the state contribution to salary occurred the total amounts paid by all such county engineers for such prior membership service as county engineer, multiplied by 1.01 for the employing county’s participation for service rendered from October 1, 1945, to September 30, 1965, as a further contribution to the employing county, said contribution to be in addition to all other contributions authorized by Section 11-6-4 or any other law.
Ala. Code § 36-21-55.3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-55.3
Section 36-21-55.3 Background Checks Required for Employment or Appointment of Law Enforcement Officers
Status: in_force

(a) Prior to the employment or appointment of a law enforcement officer, a law enforcement agency shall do all of the following:

(1) Conduct a fingerprint-based state and national criminal background check that shall be completed by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) for purposes of determining suitability for employment or appointment.

(2) Review the current and prior law enforcement officer employment history confirmed through access of the information in the database as required by subsection (e) of Section 36-21-55.1.

(3) Review current and previous residential addresses of the law enforcement officer.

(4) Review reportable offenses, if any, against the law enforcement officer while appointed or employed with any other law enforcement agency confirmed through access of the information in the database as required by subdivision (a)(1) of Section 36-21-55.1.

(5) Review available social media accounts of the law enforcement officer.

(6) Review professional references provided by the law enforcement officer.

(7) Review disciplinary action as defined in Section 36-21-55 taken against the law enforcement officer while in secondary and postsecondary school confirmed by telephone or electronic or other means.

(8) Review a full report of the law enforcement officer’s credit history provided by the law enforcement officer.

(b) A law enforcement officer shall sign a written release authorizing a law enforcement agency to obtain the pre-employment check information listed in subsection (a).

(c) A law enforcement agency shall complete an investigation validating any additional information provided by the law enforcement officer.

(d)(1) Results of the criminal background check received by the hiring or appointing law enforcement agency shall be confidential and may not be deemed a public record, disclosed to any individual beyond those with authorized access, or disclosed under the Alabama Open Records Act.

(2) The employing or appointing law enforcement agencies shall comply with rules of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the use of criminal records. Any person who releases or discloses records in violation of these rules or subdivision (1), upon conviction, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Ala. Code § 36-26-107 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-107
Section 36-26-107 Transfer of Employee - Finality of Decision; Contest; Hearing
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-270, p. 494, §14, effective July 1, 2011.
Ala. Code § 36-27C-9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27C / Section 36-27C-9
Section 36-27C-9 Relation to Other Retirement Provisions
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall limit or otherwise lessen the State of Alabama’s, current or future, obligation to fund the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund. The provisions of this chapter, in whole or in part, may not be used to allow a person otherwise covered under the Retirement Systems of Alabama to opt out or otherwise cease participation in the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund. The State of Alabama or any political subdivision thereof may not substitute or cause to be substituted this Employee Savings Plan or any other defined contribution plan for the state retirement defined benefit plan that currently exists in the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund.
Ala. Code § 36-18-38 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-38
Section 36-18-38 Representation by Attorney General
Status: in_force

The Attorney General shall represent the director in all litigation to which the director is a party or in which the director has an interest and on all legal matters necessary for the orderly and reasonable implementation and administration of this article.
Ala. Code § 36-26-62 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-62
Section 36-26-62 Applicability of Sections 36-26-60 through 36-26-63
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 36-26-60 through 36-26-63 shall apply to all officers and employees in the service of the state institutions except:

(1) Members of appointive boards and commissions;

(2) Physicians, surgeons, dentists, psychologists, social workers, nurses and attorneys;

(3) Any person whose employment is subject to the approval of the United States government, or any agency thereof;

(4) Heads of departments in the state institutions; and

(5) Such custodial and laboring positions as may be designated by the State Personnel Department.
Ala. Code § 36-16-8 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 16 / Section 36-16-8
Section 36-16-8 Property Inventory Control Division - Establishment of Control of State Personal Property; Property Managers; Inventories
Status: in_force

The Property Inventory Control Division shall establish a control in the following manner of all nonconsumable state personal property not exempt under Section 36-16-11.

(1) The head of each department or agency of the state shall designate one of its employees as property manager for the department or agency. Except for books, the property manager shall make a full and complete inventory of all nonconsumable personal property and certain other items of personal property deemed important or sensitive enough by the Property Inventory Control Division to be included in the inventory of state property of the value of five hundred dollars ($500) or more owned by the state and used or acquired by the department or agency. The inventory shall show the complete description, manufacturer’s serial number, cost price, date of purchase, location, and custodial agency, responsible officer, or employee, and the state property control marking. A copy of the inventory shall be submitted to the Property Inventory Control Division on October 1 and April 1 of each year. Each inventory shall show all property acquired since the date of the last inventory. When any inventory fails to show any property shown on the previous inventory, then a complete explanation accounting for the property or the disposition thereof shall be attached to the inventory and submitted to the Property Inventory Control Division. All property managers shall keep at all times in their files a copy of all inventories submitted to the Property Inventory Control Division, and the copies shall be subject to examination by any and all state auditors or employees of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.

(2) Each property manager shall be the custodian of, and responsible for, all property in his or her department or agency. When any property is entrusted to other employees or officers of the department or agency, the property manager shall require a written receipt of the property so entrusted, which receipt shall be executed by the person receiving the property. In that event, the property manager shall be relieved of responsibility of the property, and the employee or officer of the department or agency shall be responsible for the property.

(3) No property, except property being transferred to the Department of Archives and History under Section 41-6-10, shall be disposed of, transferred, assigned, or entrusted to any other department, agency, or employee thereof without the written permission of the Director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs or the Governor of the State of Alabama or the designee of either of them.

(4) Biannually, the Property Inventory Control Division shall conduct an inventory of all state personal property excluding historical materials in the custody of the Department of Archives and History and historical materials in the custody of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Commission, holding every officer or employee strictly accountable for all personal property assigned to his or her custody.

(5) No later than November 30 of each new fiscal year, the State Auditor shall report in writing to the Governor all losses and missing items of state property valued at more than five hundred dollars ($500) as revealed by the most recent inventory of state personal property.

(6) Whenever any property manager ceases for any reason to be the property manager of his or her department or agency, the director of the department or agency shall immediately notify in writing the Property Inventory Control Division. The division shall immediately check the inventories of all property in the department or agency, and the successor to the property manager shall execute a written receipt for all property received by him or her or coming into his or her custody or control. The last payment of salary due the property manager shall be withheld until a complete check of the inventory of the property has been made and approved. In the event of any shortages, the property manager shall be held strictly accountable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the property manager shall not be held accountable for property entrusted to any other employee or officer of the department or agency and for which he or she holds the written receipt of the employee or officer.
Ala. Code § 36-27-130 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-130
Section 36-27-130 Amount of Increase - Persons Other Than Persons Whose Employer Participated in Employees’ Retirement System
Status: in_force

Commencing October 1, 1996, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1996, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees’ Retirement System, and certain beneficiaries of deceased members and deceased retirees currently receiving survivor benefits, if the effective date of retirement or death for the deceased retiree or deceased member was prior to October 1, 1996, for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive a cost-of-living increase of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month and the increase shall be more if determined as follows:

(1) Two percent (2%) of the current gross benefit paid to the retiree and to certain beneficiaries of deceased members and deceased retirees.

(2) One dollar ($1) per month for each year of service attained by the retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option one.

(3) One dollar ($1) per month for each year of service attained by the retiree reduced by the retiree’s option election factor for each retiree selecting Options two, three, or four unless the beneficiary under the option selected is deceased on October 1, 1996, in which case the increase shall not be reduced.

(4) One dollar ($1) per month for each year of service attained by the deceased member or deceased retiree reduced by the survivor’s option factor for each beneficiary receiving monthly benefits from the Teachers’ Retirement System.
Ala. Code § 36-14-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 14 / Section 36-14-4
Section 36-14-4 Custody of Books
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State has the charge of all the books owned and kept for sale by the state and it is his duty to sell the same. He is liable upon his official bond for failure of any of the duties imposed in selling the same and for failure to pay over the money received therefor.
Ala. Code § 36-5-21 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-21
Section 36-5-21 Proof of Bonds or Recognizances
Status: in_force

It shall be lawful to show by parol that any bond or recognizance was taken by an officer in the discharge of his duty, although such fact ought to appear upon the bond or recognizance or in writing or of record and does not so appear; and, if an officer takes a recognizance in a case where he should have taken a bond, it shall bind the parties in the same manner as if it had been authorized.
Ala. Code § 36-27-10 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-10
Section 36-27-10 Procedure for Receipt of Full Credits for Prior Service and Membership Service in County by County Engineers; Procedure as to Future Service; Administration of Provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Any county engineer participating in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama under the provisions of Section 36-27-9 whose county is now covering its employees in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama may receive full credit for prior service and membership service in that county, provided, that he shall pay to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama the contributions he would have made plus regular interest from the date of participation by the county had he been allowed to do so; provided further, that the employing county shall agree to pay the employer’s normal and accrued liability costs for such prior service and membership service which it allows to such county engineers. Such additional accrued liability for such service allowed by the county shall be determined by the actuary of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama and shall be included in the next valuation of the retirement system liabilities and shall be a charge to the county allowing service under this section. Contributions plus regular interest by the employee shall be made no later than March 31, 1972.

(b) After October 1, 1971, any person employed as a county engineer whose county covers its employees in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama shall be covered in the same manner as other employees of the county, and to this extent the provisions of Section 36-27-9 shall not apply.

(c) The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama shall administer the provisions of this section and shall make such rules and regulations as necessary in carrying out its provisions.
Ala. Code § 36-18-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-7
Section 36-18-7 Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund - Additional Fee for Persons Convicted of Drug Possession, Sale, Trafficking; Proceeds and Earnings Credited to Fund
Status: in_force

(a) Beginning October 1, 1995, in addition to all fines, fees, costs, and punishments prescribed by law, there shall be imposed or assessed an additional fee of one hundred dollars ($100) on any conviction in any court of the state for drug possession, drug sale, drug trafficking, and drug paraphernalia offense as defined in Sections 13A-12-211 to 13A-12-260, inclusive.

(b) No later than 30 days after collection, proceeds from the additional fines collected pursuant to this section shall be forwarded by the officer of the court that collects the fines to the State Treasurer after one percent of the fine is deducted for administrative costs. All amounts received by the State Treasurer shall be credited to the Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund. The State Treasurer shall invest money in the fund as provided by law, but all earnings from the fund shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund, and shall not revert to the General Fund. No funds shall be withdrawn or expended except as budgeted and allocated according to the law and only in the amounts authorized by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill or other appropriation bills.
Ala. Code § 36-15-4.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 15 / Section 36-15-4.1
Section 36-15-4.1 Grants, Other Sources of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of performing any functions, duties or responsibilities of the office of the Attorney General or for the purpose of implementing any provision of this act the Attorney General may receive, accept, expend or utilize any and all money or property of whatever nature, kind or description which may now or hereafter be available to the Attorney General for such purposes.

(b) The Attorney General may receive, accept, utilize, expend and administer any grants, gifts, donations, reimbursements or fees from any public, quasi-public or private source.

(c) The Attorney General may enter into agreements and contracts with the United States of America, the State of Alabama, or any of the respective agencies, institutions, departments, authorities, agents or employees of the above in order to implement the provisions of this act or to defray and recover the costs of representing any of the above; provided, any such agreements or contracts with any agencies, institutions, departments, authorities, agents or employees of the State of Alabama whose department head or chief executive officer is appointed by the Governor, must be approved by the Governor.
Ala. Code § 36-27-27 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-27
Section 36-27-27 Making of False Statement, Etc., for Purpose of Defrauding Retirement System; Correction of Errors in Records and Payments to Beneficiaries or Members
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00, or imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

(b) Should any charge or error in the records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the Board of Control shall correct such error and, as far as practicable, shall adjust the payment in such manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid.
Ala. Code § 36-27-145 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-145
Section 36-27-145 Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer in System
Status: in_force

(a) Commencing October 1, 1998, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, and who is receiving a monthly benefit prior to October 1, 1998, administered by the Employees’ Retirement System, and whose years of creditable service has not been made known to the Employees’ Retirement System, may receive an increase in benefits in the amount of sixty dollars ($60) per month if the monthly benefit is five hundred dollars ($500) or less; ninety dollars ($90) per month if the monthly benefit is more than five hundred dollars ($500) but less than one thousand dollars ($1,000); one hundred twenty dollars ($120) per month if the monthly benefit is more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) but less than fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500); one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month if the monthly benefit is more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) but less than two thousand dollars ($2,000); one hundred eighty dollars ($180) per month if the monthly benefit is two thousand dollars ($2,000) but less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); and two hundred ten dollars ($210) per month if the monthly benefit is more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), provided the retired employee retired prior to October 1, 1998, and the employer decides to come under the provisions of this article.

(b) Retired local public agency employees who retired prior to membership of the employer in the Employees’ Retirement System and whose creditable service records have been received by the Employees’ Retirement System shall receive an increase based on the formula in Section 36-27-140 provided the employer elects to fund the increase.
Ala. Code § 36-26-15.1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-15.1
Section 36-26-15.1 Proof of Registration Required for Employment or School Enrollment
Status: in_force

(a) No person who is required to register with the Selective Service System under the United States Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 453) shall:

(1) Be offered employment by the State of Alabama without proof of such registration; nor

(2) Be eligible to initially enroll in any state postsecondary institution of higher learning without proof of such registration.

(b) No person who has failed to register as required by the United States Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 453) and who is employed by this state as of January 1, 1992, shall be promoted or reclassified to a higher position without proof of such registration.

(c) The State Personnel Board and the institutions of higher learning in this state are hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as they deem appropriate to effectuate the intent of this section in the manner prescribed by the state administrative procedure statutes. Certification by the applicant of his registration status shall be deemed adequate to effectuate the intent of this section.
Ala. Code § 36-6-151 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 6 / Section 36-6-151
Section 36-6-151 Inapplicability to Certain Employees
Status: in_force

(a) Any cost-of-living increase granted under this division shall in no way apply to any local supplement provided to any judges or to any other local employee whose salary is tied to that of any state employee.

(b) This division shall not apply to any Merit System employee or hourly employee whose service or rate of pay is covered by any labor agreement or contract.
Ala. Code § 36-32-6 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 32 / Section 36-32-6
Section 36-32-6 Approval of Regulations; Regulations and Bylaws to Be Kept Current; Public Inspection of Regulations and Bylaws
Status: in_force

Regulations proposed by the commission shall, before becoming effective, be distributed to each fire-fighting agency, the Professional Firefighters’ Association of Alabama, the Alabama Association of Fire Chiefs, the Alabama Firemen’s Association, and such other organizations of fire-fighting personnel as may be formed or organized from time to time. Such agencies and organizations shall be given a period of at least 45 days to comment upon such regulations before their final adoption by the commission. All bylaws of the commission and its regulations shall be kept current and shall be available to the public at all times.
Ala. Code § 36-18-55 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-55
Section 36-18-55 Construction of Article
Status: in_force

Act 95-784 shall be broadly construed and, if necessary, reconstrued to make its provisions constitutional.
Ala. Code § 36-15-13 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 15 / Section 36-15-13
Section 36-15-13 Attorney General May Appear Before Grand Juries
Status: in_force

The Attorney General, either in person or by assistant, may appear before any grand jury in this state and present any matter or charge to them for investigation, and prepare and present to the grand jury indictments for any violation of the laws of this state and issue subpoenas for witnesses to appear in the same manner and to the same extent as district attorneys may now or hereafter do.
Ala. Code § 36-27-12 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-12
Section 36-27-12 Transfer of Service Credits, Etc., from Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama
Status: in_force

(a) Any member of the Employees’ Retirement System who, not more than one year prior to becoming a member of the employees’ retirement system, was a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama may elect to transfer to the Employees’ Retirement System his service credits in said Teachers’ Retirement System, as provided in this section.

(b) Any such member so desiring to transfer such service credits shall notify the Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System after he becomes a member of the employees’ retirement system of his election to transfer such service credits and shall authorize transfer of the amount of his accumulated contributions to his credit in said Teachers’ Retirement System to the Annuity Savings Fund of the Employees’ Retirement System.

(c) The Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System shall thereupon certify to the Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System the period of membership service creditable to the member at the time of separation from the Teachers’ Retirement System, the period of prior service, if any, on his prior service certificate at the time of separation from the Teachers’ Retirement System and the value of the prior service contributions allowable for such prior service under the Teachers’ Retirement System. The member shall be credited in the Employees’ Retirement System with the service credits so certified and, if he continues as a member until retirement, he shall receive in addition to the benefits allowable under the Employees’ Retirement System benefits based on the services and contributions so certified.

(d) If a member retires under the Employees’ Retirement System within five years after having elected to transfer such service credits from said Teachers’ Retirement System, the pension benefits payable with respect to such service credits shall not be greater than the pension benefits which would have been payable with respect thereto had he remained in said Teachers’ Retirement System.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this section to the contrary, a member of the Employees’ Retirement System on October 9, 1947, who was a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama not more than one year prior to becoming a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, may effect such a transfer of service credits from said Teachers’ Retirement System in the manner described in this section; provided, that he shall deposit in the Annuity Savings Fund of the Employees’ Retirement System prior to January 1, 1954, the amount of his accumulated contributions paid to him by said Teachers’ Retirement System.

(f) Should any person who has retired from the Teachers’ Retirement System and who is receiving benefits for service as a teacher become a member of the Employees’ Retirement System his benefits shall cease, and the reserves remaining for his pension and annuity and all his service credits shall be transferred to the Employees’ Retirement System. The member shall be credited in the Employees’ Retirement System with the transfers so certified, and if he continues as a member until retirement, his retirement benefits shall be based on his service in both systems.
Ala. Code § 36-19-22 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 19 / Section 36-19-22
Section 36-19-22 Fees of Witnesses and Officers Serving Subpoenas, Etc
Status: in_force

Every person summoned and testifying before the Fire Marshal, his deputies or assistants shall receive from the funds for the maintenance of this department, on the certificate of the Fire Marshal for witness fees and mileage, such sum or sums as provided for witnesses testifying in the circuit courts of the state, and officers serving subpoenas and rendering other services to the Fire Marshal shall be paid in like manner for like services in such courts.
Ala. Code § 36-27A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27A / Section 36-27A-7
Section 36-27A-7 Administrative Cost
Status: in_force

The administrative cost for the operation of the PEIRAF shall be provided from the expenses funds of the Employees’ Retirement System and the Teachers’ Retirement System. No additional state funds shall be used to administer the provisions of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 36-18-4 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-4
Section 36-18-4 Salary and Expenses
Status: in_force

The salary of the director shall be established as provided in Section 36-6-6 and shall be payable out of the funds provided therefor in the general appropriation bill or out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated and as the salaries of other state officers are paid. The director and his staff shall be furnished with offices and laboratories at the expense of the state and shall also be allowed all necessary expenses for the equipment and conduct of his offices and laboratories, including stenographic and laboratory assistance, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article. Such expenses are to be paid by warrants approved by the Governor and shall be limited in amount to the sum provided therefor in the general appropriation bill. All funds expended under the provisions of this article shall be budgeted and allotted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, Chapter 4, Title 41.
Ala. Code § 36-8-5 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 8 / Section 36-8-5
Section 36-8-5 Effect of Military Service Upon Tenure, Compensation, Powers, Etc., of Regular Official
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to extend the tenure of any such duly elected or appointed official beyond the time for which he has been elected or appointed nor entitle him to any compensation during the time he is absent in the service of the United States and until he resumes the duties of his office, nor shall any such official be clothed with any of the powers or authority of his office while absent in the service of the United States.
Ala. Code § 36-37-1 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 37 / Section 36-37-1
Section 36-37-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known as The Personal Privacy Protection Act.
Ala. Code § 36-5-3 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-5-3
Section 36-5-3 Recordation of Official Bonds of County or Municipal Officers, Agents, Etc
Status: in_force

Every official bond of a county or municipal officer, agent or employee required by law to be filed with any public officer must be by such officer recorded word for word in a well-bound book and properly indexed.
Ala. Code § 37-27D-2 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27D / Section 37-27D-2
Section 37-27D-2
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Any public official or employee of the state or a political subdivision thereof who is under any investigation for committing a felony offense related to or arising out of, or in connection with, the public official’s or employee’s service in his or her public position may use, if otherwise authorized by law, public funds to defend himself or herself unless and until the public official or employee is indicted for that felony offense.

(2) If the public official or employee is indicted for the felony offense, the public official or employee may not use any public funds to pay for his or her legal defense.

(b) Any public official or employee described in subsection (a) who is placed on leave with pay while under investigation, upon conviction for that felony offense, shall be required to pay back all compensation received since the commission of the felony offense.
Ala. Code § 36-26A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26A / Section 36-26A-5
Section 36-26A-5 Remedies
Status: in_force

A court, in rendering a judgment in an action brought pursuant to this chapter, may order, where appropriate, payment of back wages, front wages, and compensatory damages, or any combination of these remedies.
Ala. Code § 36-18-53 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 18 / Section 36-18-53
Section 36-18-53 Advisory Board to Develop and Recommend List of Priorities and Criteria for Disbursement of Monies; Use of Funds
Status: in_force

The Alabama Chemical Testing Training and Equipment Advisory Board shall develop, and if appropriate, periodically revise, a recommended list of priorities and criteria for disbursement of monies in the Alabama Chemical Testing Training and Equipment Trust Fund. The advisory board shall provide its recommendations for disbursement, on an annual basis, to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Speaker of the House, Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences, Director of the Department of Public Safety, the Executive Director of the Alabama Chiefs of Police Association, the Executive Director of the Alabama Sheriffs’ Association, the Executive Director of the Office of Prosecution Services, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and to the Executive Secretary of the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission. Money in the fund shall be used only to administer the fund, to purchase and maintain chemical testing equipment for city, county, or state law enforcement agencies in this state, to provide training to law enforcement personnel of this state in the use of that chemical testing equipment, to pay the costs of the Implied Consent Unit in the Department of Public Safety, to pay the costs of the Implied Consent Program in the Department of Forensic Sciences, and to support the activities of the board.
Ala. Code § 36-26-120 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 26 / Section 36-26-120
Section 36-26-120 Short Title
Status: in_force

This article shall be known as and may be cited as the “Truth in Salary Act.”
Ala. Code § 36-21-48 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-48
Section 36-21-48 Appropriations and Grants to Commission by Municipalities and Counties and Disposition Thereof
Status: in_force

The governing body of each incorporated city or town and the governing body of each county of the state is hereby authorized to appropriate any funds not otherwise appropriated to or for the benefit of the commission and its work. All such appropriations shall be paid into the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Fund.
Ala. Code § 36-21-192 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-192
Section 36-21-192 Appointment of Actuary; Action Upon Report; Liability for Deficiency in Payments
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall appoint and employ an actuary to make an actuarial valuation every three years or earlier, if deemed required, of the receipts and income accruing to the fund based on age, expected mortality, disability, and retirement status of the members and the qualified service and membership service of members and to determine what percentage of the proposed payments, annuities, and benefits set forth in this article may be paid if the fund is to be kept on an actuarially sound and solvent basis. Upon receipt of the report of the actuary, the executive director shall present it to a meeting of the board which shall make adjustments of annuities and benefits, up or down, as recommended by the actuary. Any increase or reduction in benefits resulting from any actuarial study or from any subsequent amendment of this article shall be applicable to all persons then receiving such benefits, even though such persons had theretofore received benefits at a different rate.

(b) In no event shall the board, the fund, the association, the order, or any member, officer, director, or employee of any thereof or the state or any subdivision thereof or any municipality therein be liable to any member or any beneficiary or any representative of any member or any beneficiary of the fund for any deficiency in payments made pursuant to this article and pursuant to any pro rata reduction of annuities or benefits.
Ala. Code § 36-21-40 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 21 / Section 36-21-40
Section 36-21-40 Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this article, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

(1) FUND. The Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Fund provided for in Section 36-21-47.

(2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission established by Section 36-21-41.

(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, the Alabama Department of Corrections, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the police department of each incorporated city or town, the department of each sheriff of the state, including all deputy sheriffs, the Enforcement Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and each public agency in the state charged with the enforcement of any laws and the officers or employees of which have power as such officials or employees to make arrests. The term does not include the National Guard or any military organization.

(4) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A police officer, deputy sheriff, deputy constable, or other official who has the authority to make arrests. The term includes enforcement officers of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, the Department of Corrections, and the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

(5) STATE. The State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 36-27-159 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-159
Section 36-27-159 Election by Local Administrative Unit
Status: in_force

Any county board, department, or agency responsible for the local administration of a program for a state board, department, or agency affiliated with the Employees’ Retirement System on October 1, 2000, may provide the cost-of-living increase pursuant to this article to any retiree or beneficiary who retired prior to July 1, 2000, if the local administrative unit elects to fund the increase.
Ala. Code § 36-15-19 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 15 / Section 36-15-19
Section 36-15-19 Written Opinion of Attorney General Protects Officer, Governing Body, Etc
Status: in_force

The written opinion of the Attorney General, heretofore or hereafter secured by any officer, board, local governing body or agency legally entitled to secure such opinion, shall protect such officer and the members of such board, local governing body or agency to whom it is directed or for whom the same is secured from liability to either the state, county or other municipal subdivisions of the state because of any official act or acts heretofore or hereafter performed as directed or advised in such opinion.
Ala. Code § 36-27-21.9 — Alabama Code / Title 36 / Chapter 27 / Section 36-27-21.9
Section 36-27-21.9 Cost-of-Living Increases to Retirees of Public Hospital Which Has Withdrawn from Participation
Status: in_force

Any public hospital which has withdrawn from participation in the Employees’ Retirement System is hereby authorized to pay any cost-of-living increases granted by law, including but not limited to the 1985 and 1988 cost-of-living increases, to any retiree of the Employees’ Retirement System who was employed by any such public hospital and who was a member of the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6 during such employment.