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AL Code § 12-18-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 4 - Probate Judges.|Section 12-18-91 - Effective Date.

Section 12-18-91Effective date. The provisions of this article shall become effective on October 1, 1976, unless otherwise provided in this article. No contributions shall be paid, no elections shall be made, and no benefits shall accrue under this article until October 1, 1976, unless otherwise provided in this article. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §18-103.)
AL Code § 12-18-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 4 - Probate Judges.|Section 12-18-92 - 1984 Cost of Living Increase.

Section 12-18-921984 cost of living increase. (a) There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1984, to any probate judge retired prior to October 1, 1983, under the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama and who is receiving a retirement allowance therefrom, a cost-of-living increase in his maximum retirement allowance as follows: (1) If such person retired prior to October 1, 1979, a 15 percent increase in his maximum retirement allowance. (2) If such person retired on or after October 1, 1979, but prior to October 1, 1981, a 10 percent increase in his maximum retirement allowance. (3) If such person retired on or after October 1, 1981, but prior to October 1, 1983, a five percent increase in his maximum retirement allowance. (b) Any person retired under the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama who assumed office for the first time on or after July 30, 1979, for purposes of this section, shall not be entitled to receive the cost-of-living increase provided. (c) The board of control of the Employees' Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the costs of the benefits provided in this section and shall certify such amounts to the state Comptroller as payable to the Judicial Retirement Fund for the purpose herein defined. The provisions of this subsection shall govern and override any seeming or actual conflicts with other provisions of this section. (d) The provisions of this section are supplemental. It shall be construed in pari materia with other laws regulating and providing for the payment of retirement benefits to retired probate judges of Alabama; however, those laws or parts of laws which are in direct conflict or inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. (Acts 1984, No. 84-613, p. 1252.)
AL Code § 12-18-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 4 - Probate Judges.|Section 12-18-93 - Cost-of-Living Adjustments.

Section 12-18-93Cost-of-living adjustments. (a) Any retired judge of probate receiving benefits from the Judicial Retirement Fund shall be entitled to receive any cost-of-living adjustment provided by law for state employees who are retired under the State Employees' Retirement System after April 21, 1998. (b) The cost-of-living adjustments provided for retired judges of probate under subsection (a) shall be financed from time to time, from the investment income of the Judicial Retirement Fund. (Act 98-365, p. 664, §3.)
AL Code § 12-18-110 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 5 - Transfer of Contributions and Creditable Service From Employees'retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System to Judicial Retirement Fund.|Section 12-18-110 - Transfer of Contributions and Creditable Service - Eligibility Period; Procedure.

Section 12-18-110Transfer of contributions and creditable service - Eligibility period; procedure. (a) Any member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, who, not more than one year prior to becoming a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, was a member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama may elect to transfer to the Judicial Retirement Fund his or her creditable service and accumulated contributions in the Employees' or Teachers' Retirement System, as provided in this article. (b) Any member desiring to transfer any creditable service and contributions shall notify the Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System within one year after he or she becomes a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, or, if a member of the fund on May 19, 1993, then, within one year after May 19, 1993, of his or her election to transfer the creditable service and shall authorize transfer of the amount of his or her accumulated contributions to his or her credit in the Employees' or Teachers' Retirement System to his or her account in the Judicial Retirement Fund. (c) The Board of Control transferring the creditable service and contributions shall thereupon certify to the Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System and to the Judicial Retirement Fund the amount of contributions and service creditable to the member at the time of separation from the transferring retirement system. The member shall be credited in the Judicial Retirement Fund with the creditable service and accumulated contributions so certified. (Acts 1980, No. 80-461, p. 714, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-767, p. 1533, §3.)
AL Code § 12-18-114 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 5 - Transfer of Contributions and Creditable Service From Employees'retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System to Judicial Retirement Fund.|Section 12-18-114 - Article Supplemental to Other Related Laws.

Section 12-18-114Article supplemental to other related laws. The provisions of this article are cumulative and supplemental to other law or laws relating to this subject and shall not be construed to repeal any law or part of law not directly in conflict herewith. (Acts 1980, No. 80-461, p. 714, §5.)
AL Code § 12-18-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 6 - Retirement Upon 25 Years of Service; Allow to Purchase Credit for Final Year.|Section 12-18-130 - Applicability.

Section 12-18-130Applicability. This article does not apply to anyone who assumed office as a justice of the Supreme Court, a judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, a judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, or a circuit judge before July 30, 1979. This article also does not apply to anyone who assumed office as a district judge before July 30, 1979, and later assumed or assumes office as a justice of the Supreme Court, a judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, a judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, or a circuit judge. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §1.)
AL Code § 12-18-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 6 - Retirement Upon 25 Years of Service; Allow to Purchase Credit for Final Year.|Section 12-18-131 - Eligibility to Retire Regardless of Age.

Section 12-18-131Eligibility to retire regardless of age. Notwithstanding Section 12-18-40 or 12-18-55, any justice of the Supreme Court, any judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, any judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, any circuit judge, or any district judge who has served for not less than 25 years on any one or more of such courts or has 25 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement System shall be eligible to retire under this chapter regardless of age. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §2.)
AL Code § 12-18-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 6 - Retirement Upon 25 Years of Service; Allow to Purchase Credit for Final Year.|Section 12-18-132 - Retirement Benefits.

Section 12-18-132Retirement benefits. With the exception of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the appellate courts, circuit courts, and district courts who assumed office prior to July 30, 1979, and who are exempted from Section 12-18-40, and this article, the retirement pay or benefits of any justice or judge qualifying for service retirement pursuant to this article shall be based and computed on the final salary received from the state at the time of his or her retirement in accordance with the percentage rate now prescribed by law. The retirement benefits of justices and judges who have 25 years of creditable service based on nonjudicial service which has been transferred to the Judicial Retirement System shall be calculated pursuant to Sections 12-18-111, 12-18-112, or 12-18-113, as applicable. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §3.)
AL Code § 12-18-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 6 - Retirement Upon 25 Years of Service; Allow to Purchase Credit for Final Year.|Section 12-18-133 - Purchase of Additional Credit.

Section 12-18-133Purchase of additional credit. Any justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, circuit judge, or district judge who has 24 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama may elect to purchase credit in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama for up to one additional year. Any justice or judge eligible to purchase such credit shall be awarded such credit provided that the justice or judge shall pay into the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama a sum of money which is equal to the annual contribution of both the justice or judge and the annual contribution of the state into the fund at the time of election to purchase the credit multiplied by each year or fraction thereof of service credit claimed. The election and payment shall be made to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, administrator of the Judicial Retirement Fund. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §4.)
AL Code § 12-18-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 6 - Retirement Upon 25 Years of Service; Allow to Purchase Credit for Final Year.|Section 12-18-134 - Construction of Article.

Section 12-18-134Construction of article. The provisions of this article are cumulative and supplemental to other statutes or laws relating to judicial retirement and shall not be construed to repeal any law or part of law not directly in conflict herewith. Nothing herein shall be construed to eliminate, reduce, or modify any entitlement or benefit to which a justice or judge is now eligible or would be eligible under the retirement laws existing and in effect before July 1, 1998. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §5.)
AL Code § 12-18-151 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-151 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Judges' and Clerks' Plan Established.

Section 12-18-151(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Judges' and Clerks' Plan established.  There is hereby created and established the Judges' and Clerks' Plan under the Judicial Retirement Fund. (Act 2015-498, §3.)
AL Code § 12-18-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-152 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Scope and Application of Plan; Contributions.

Section 12-18-152(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Scope and application of plan; contributions.  (a) Every judge or clerk first elected or appointed to his or her position on or after November 8, 2016 who is not a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund or Clerks' and Registers' Supernumerary Fund on November 7, 2016 shall come under this article by operation of law. The plan shall not include any judge or clerk who is a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund or Clerks' and Registers' Supernumerary Fund prior to November 8, 2016, regardless of the type of judgeship position held. Each judge or clerk shall contribute to the fund eight and one-half percent (8.5%) of his or her annual salary or base sum as provided in Section 12-18-82. The percentages shall be deducted by the employer from each judge's or clerk's salary and paid into the fund in the State Treasury and credited to the individual account of the judge or clerk from whose salary it was deducted. (b) On account of each member there shall be paid monthly by the employer an amount equal to a certain percentage of the annual salary of each member to be the employer's contribution. The percentage rate of such contribution shall be fixed for each fiscal year on the basis of the liabilities as shown by the last annual actuarial valuation, and such percentage rate as established by such valuation shall take effect the following October 1 and continue in effect for the fiscal year. (Act 2015-498, §4.)
AL Code § 12-18-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-153 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Transfer of Membership Service and Accumulated Contributions.

Section 12-18-153(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Transfer of membership service and accumulated contributions.  (a) Any active and contributing member of the Judges' and Clerks' Plan who, not more than one year prior to becoming a member of the plan was a member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, may elect to transfer his or her membership service and accumulated contributions in the Employees' Retirement System or the Teachers' Retirement System to the Judges' and Clerks' Plan. (b) Any active and contributing member desiring to transfer any membership service and accumulated contributions under subsection (a) shall notify the Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System of his or her election to transfer membership service and shall authorize the transfer of the amount of his or her accumulated contributions to his or her credit in the Employees' Retirement System or Teachers' Retirement System to his or her account in the Judges' and Clerks' Plan. (c) The Board of Control transferring the membership service and contributions shall thereupon certify to the Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System and to the fund the amount of contributions and service creditable to the member at the time of separation from the transferring retirement system. The member shall be credited in the fund with the membership service and accumulated contributions so certified. (d) Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, in the application of the foregoing provisions of this section to a member whose membership service includes a period of service as a judge or clerk and a period of service in another employment classification, the benefit rates applicable to a judge or clerk shall apply to all membership service as a judge or clerk, and the benefit rates applicable to the member's other employment classification shall apply to membership service in such other classification. In all other respects, the pension under this section shall be determined on the basis of the member's employment classification at the time of his or her withdrawal from service. (Act 2015-498, §5.)
AL Code § 12-18-154 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-154 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Service Retirement Allowance.

Section 12-18-154(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Service retirement allowance.  (a) Any member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 62 may retire upon written application to the Board of Control setting forth at what time, not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he or she desires to be retired; provided, that any such member shall have completed 10 or more years of membership service in the Judges' and Clerks' Plan. (b) Any member who has attained age 62 and has previously withdrawn from service may retire upon written application to the Board of Control setting forth at what time, not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he or she desires to be retired; provided, that any such member shall have completed 10 or more years of membership service. (c) Upon retirement from service, a member who is a clerk shall receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of an annuity, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the member's accumulated contributions at the time of retirement, and a pension, which when added to the member's annuity shall be equal to three percent (3%) of the member's average final compensation multiplied by the member's number of years of membership service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the service retirement allowance shall not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the member's average final compensation. (d) Upon retirement from service, a member who is a judge shall receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of an annuity, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the member's accumulated contributions at the time of retirement, and a pension, which when added to the member's annuity shall be equal to four percent (4%) of the member's average final compensation multiplied by the member's number of years of membership service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the service retirement allowance shall not exceed seventy-five percent (75%) of the member's average final compensation. A member who is a judge and who has attained 18 or more years of membership service shall be entitled to a retirement allowance of seventy-five percent (75%) of the member's average final compensation. (Act 2015-498, §6.)
AL Code § 12-18-157 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-157 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Cancellation of Survivor Allowance.

Section 12-18-157(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Cancellation of survivor allowance.  Any member of the plan who is retired and who has selected a survivor option may cancel the survivor allowance payable to his or her designated beneficiary. Such election shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Control and once made by the member shall be irrevocable. Any member who so elects to cancel a survivor allowance shall designate such new beneficiary as he or she shall nominate to receive a pro rata payment for the number of days the member shall live during the month of his or her death. Any cancellation of a survivor allowance under the provisions of this section shall be irrevocable by the member and payment of the pro rata amount for the number of days the member lives during the month of his or her death shall be in lieu of any other benefits heretofore payable. (Act 2015-498, §9.)
AL Code § 12-18-158 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-158 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Withholdings From Retirement Pay.

Section 12-18-158(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Withholdings from retirement pay.  (a) Any member who, at the time of his or her retirement is a member of and holds a policy in any state group hospitalization or health insurance plan, may in writing authorize the Secretary-Treasurer of the state retirement system to withhold from his or her retirement pay a sufficient sum or amount to pay the premium on such policy. (b) The Secretary-Treasurer of the state Employees' Retirement System, when authorized by a retired employee, is hereby authorized to withhold from the retirement pay of such employee a sufficient amount to pay the premium on such policy and remit the same to the insurance carrier. (Act 2015-498, §10.)
AL Code § 12-18-159 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-159 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Management and Supervision of Plan; Rulemaking Authority.

Section 12-18-159(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Management and supervision of plan; rulemaking authority.  The Judges' and Clerks' Plan shall be under the management and supervision of the Employees' Retirement System as a component of the Judicial Retirement Fund, with all contributions to the plan deposited and held in the same manner as contributions to the Judicial Retirement Fund. The Employees' Retirement System may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to implement the plan. (Act 2015-498, §11.)
AL Code § 12-18-160 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-160 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Legislation to Include Costs.

Section 12-18-160(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Legislation to include costs.  All proposed legislation affecting the plan shall be accompanied by an actuarial estimate of the cost involved in such proposed legislation. (Act 2015-498, §12.)
AL Code § 12-18-161 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-161 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Fraud; Correction of Errors.

Section 12-18-161(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Fraud; correction of errors.  (a) Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this plan in any attempt to defraud such plan 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 fund more or less than he or she 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. (Act 2015-498, §13.)
AL Code § 12-18-162 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 18 - Judicial Retirement.|Article 7 - Judges' and Clerks' Plan for Retirement.|Section 12-18-162 - (Effective November 8, 2016, Subject to Contingencies) Exemption From Taxes; Assignability.

Section 12-18-162(Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Exemption from taxes; assignability.  The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or to the return of contributions, the pension, annuity or retirement allowance itself and any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this article and the moneys in the fund are hereby exempt from any state or municipal tax and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever and shall be unassignable except as in this article specifically otherwise provide. (Act 2015-498, §14.)