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AL Code § 16-25-11.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.1 - Use of Accrued Sick Leave in Determining Creditable Service in Retirement System; Conversion of Unused Sick Leave.

Section 16-25-11.1Use of accrued sick leave in determining creditable service in retirement system; conversion of unused sick leave. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2021-537 IN THE 2021 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 27, 2021. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. Teachers, as defined in subdivision (3) of Section 16-25-1 or subsection (d) of Section 16-25-5, as amended may use their accrued sick leave, up to a maximum number of accrued sick leave days allowed by law, to be included as membership service in determining the total years of creditable service in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama; provided, any teacher not authorized by law to receive sick leave may use any accrued sick leave provided by his or her employer, provided, that employer is lawfully empowered to grant such leave, which cannot be without pay; and provided further that the amount of such accrued leave shall not exceed the maximum number of accrued sick leave days allowed by law for a classroom teacher employed by a city or county board of education. Unused sick leave may be converted to membership service only for the purpose of applying for service retirement. The conversion shall not apply to eligibility for deferred retirement; provided that a person eligible for service retirement, if also eligible for disability retirement, may elect disability retirement and also receive credit for accumulated sick leave pursuant to this section. This section shall not be applicable to any person who is eligible to receive partial payment for accrued sick leave pursuant to Section 36-26-36.
AL Code § 16-25-11.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.2 - Purchase of Credit for Legislative Service; Option to Be Exercised and Paid for by October 1, 1988.

Section 16-25-11.2Purchase of credit for legislative service; option to be exercised and paid for by October 1, 1988. (a) Whenever used in this section, all words and phrases defined in Section 36-27-1, shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in such section, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended. (b) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama who has been credited with at least 10 years of contributing membership service and, who has rendered full-time service as a legislative employee may hereby claim and purchase credit for any such prior full-time legislative service for which credit has not been granted in either the Teachers' or Employees' Retirement System. (c) Any member eligible to claim and purchase credit for service under subsection (b) hereof, shall be awarded such credit under the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama provided he shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Teachers' Retirement System prior to said member's date of retirement a sum equal to the contributions he would have made for such prior service plus eight percent interest compounded annually. (d) The provisions granted under this section to reopen the Teachers' Retirement System shall terminate October 1, 1988, and no one shall be eligible to utilize any of the options granted herein if not fully exercised and paid prior to October 1, 1988. (Acts 1987, No. 87-640, §§1-4.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.3 - Purchase of Credit by Employees of Junior Colleges and Technical Colleges for Leave of Absence.

Section 16-25-11.3Purchase of credit by employees of junior colleges and technical colleges for leave of absence. (a) All employees of state junior colleges and state technical colleges who have been in such service for five years or more and who are participating in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama on May 4, 1989, may elect to purchase credit for any time they were on leave of absence from such service between the dates of March 30, 1984, and July 1, 1986. (b) Any employee electing to purchase credit pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer within one year after May 4, 1989, a lump sum payment equal to a percentage of the current annual salary of such person; the applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions as required by the most recent actuarial valuation. (Acts 1989, No. 89-538, p. 1126, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.4 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service Rendered as Full-Time Employee in Office of Clerk of Circuit Court or With Alabama State Employees Association.

Section 16-25-11.4Purchase of credit for prior service rendered as full-time employee in office of clerk of circuit court or with Alabama State Employees Association. (a) Any acting and contributing member of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama may elect to purchase credit for prior service rendered as a full-time employee in the office of a clerk of the circuit court in the State of Alabama or as a full-time employee with the Alabama State Employees Association provided the member complies with the following conditions prescribed in this section. (b) Any employee electing to purchase credit under subsection (a) of this section shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Teachers' Retirement System within one year after October 1, 1995, a lump sum payment equal to a percentage of the current annual salary or final average compensation, whichever is greater, of the member. The applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions as required by the most recent actuarial valuation. (c) Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, a member of the Teachers' Retirement System shall not receive credit for the service where at the time of retirement he or she has credit or is entitled to receive any benefits whatsoever for the same service under any other retirement or pension plan which is wholly or partly funded from public funds; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to participation in the federal Social Security program. In the event of disqualification of the service credit, contributions made under this section by the member shall be refunded to him or her. (Acts 1989, No. 89-746, p. 1512, §§1-3; Acts 1995, No. 95-508, p. 1017, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.5 - Purchase of Credit for Employment in Support Personnel Position.

Section 16-25-11.5Purchase of credit for employment in support personnel position. (a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama shall be eligible to receive up to five years of creditable service for employment in a support personnel position in the State of Alabama, if the member claiming the credit has not less than 10 years of contributing membership service exclusive of military service credit under the Teachers' Retirement System, and the member performs and complies with the conditions prescribed in subsection (b) of this section. (b) A member of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama eligible under subsection (a) of this section may receive credit as provided in subsection (a) if as a condition precedent to the receipt of the credit: (i) the member contributes prior to his or her date of retirement, to the Teachers' Retirement System for each year of claimed service credit the full actuarially determined cost for each year of service credit as determined by the system's actuary; (ii) the member shall claim, purchase and receive credit for support personnel service in increments of not less than one year unless the member's total or balance of claimed service is less than one year in which event he or she shall claim and purchase credit for the entire period. (c) Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, a member shall not be eligible to purchase credit under this section for service for which he or she already has credit under the Teachers' Retirement System or any other retirement or pension plan which is wholly or partly funded from public funds or other moneys of public institutions of this or any other state, provided that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to participation in the federal Social Security program. In the event of disqualification of service purchased under this section, contributions made on account of the disqualified service shall be refunded to the member. (Acts 1990, No. 90-549, p. 855, §§1-3; Acts 1993, No. 93-644, p. 1109, §6; Act 98-385, p. 732, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.7 - Purchase of Credit by Certain Members Employed as Teachers in State Public Schools Regardless of Manner in Which Salary Was Paid or Source Thereof.

Section 16-25-11.7Purchase of credit by certain members employed as teachers in state public schools regardless of manner in which salary was paid or source thereof. (a) Any person who on October 1, 1990 was a member of the Teachers' Retirement System who was employed in a public school in Alabama shall be entitled to receive credit for all service rendered in such public school regardless of the manner in which the member's salary was paid or the source of funds for such salary; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to any person who at the time of such service with a public school was also a student at the institution by which he was employed. (b) Any person employed in the capacity set out in subsection (a) of this section shall be entitled to receive credit for all service as a teacher rendered by him provided that said person pays to the Secretary-Treasurer within one year from October 1, 1990 for each year of claimed service, a sum equal to a percentage of his average final compensation or current annual earnable compensation, whichever is greater; the applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuations, for each year of service purchased. In the event the employer is unable to verify the salary or employment of any person covered in subsection (a) of this section, upon certification of such employer that records are not available, the member may submit affidavits from two disinterested parties with personal knowledge attesting to the salary and employment of said member. (Acts 1990, No. 90-633, p. 1160, §§ 1, 2.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.8 - Purchase of Credit for Time on Leave From Service Without Pay Due to Adoption Requirements.

Section 16-25-11.8Purchase of credit for time on leave from service without pay due to adoption requirements. (a) Any provisions of Chapter 25 of this title, to the contrary notwithstanding, active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System may purchase service credit in the system not to exceed one year for any period of time that they were required to be on leave from service without pay to comply with any state adoption law or regulation requiring a prospective adopting parent to stay home from work until the adoption process was finalized. The Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this section including verification of the service that the member desires to purchase credit for in the system. The member shall receive credit for the service when he or she remits to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing language, no member of the Teachers' Retirement System shall be eligible to receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or in any other public retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program. (b) Any member who is eligible to purchase service credit in the Teachers' Retirement System under subsection (a) shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the system, within one year from October 1, 1993, for the claimed service, a sum equal to a percentage of his or her current annual earnable compensation or the average of his or her annual compensation for the two scholastic years immediately prior to the purchase, whichever is greater. The applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuations, for each year of service credit purchased. (Acts 1993, No. 93-629, p. 1075, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.10 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service Rendered to Employer Who May Join System Pursuant to Section 16-25-10.7 but Has Not Elected to Participate.

Section 16-25-11.10Purchase of credit for prior service rendered to employer who may join system pursuant to Section 16-25-10.7 but has not elected to participate. (a) Active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed eight years for any period of prior service while they were full-time employees of an employer who is authorized to join the system pursuant to Section 16-25-10.7, but has not elected to participate. The certification of any prior service claimed by the members under this section shall conform to applicable administrative rules and procedures of the Teachers' Retirement System. Members shall receive credit for the prior service when they remit to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member of the system shall receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or any other public retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program. (b) Any member who is eligible to purchase service credit in the Teachers' Retirement System under subsection (a) shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the system, within one year from July 31, 1995, for the claimed service, a sum equal to a percentage of his or her current annual earnable compensation or average final compensation, whichever is greater. The applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuations, for each year of service credit purchased. (Acts 1995, No. 95-640, p. 1347, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.11 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Section 16-25-11.11Purchase of credit for prior service with Alabama State Council on the Arts. (a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers' Retirement System may purchase credit in the Teachers' Retirement System for prior service with the Alabama State Council on the Arts if the member has not received credit in the system for the same prior service and has not vested or otherwise become eligible to receive a retirement benefit by using the same prior service credit in another pension plan offered by the council. (b) A member of the Teachers' Retirement System who is eligible to purchase any prior service credit under subsection (a) shall receive the credit if he or she pays into the system on or before his or her date of retirement, an amount equal to the full actuarially determined cost for each year of prior service purchased as determined by the system's actuary. Prior service may be purchased only in yearly increments of at least two years at a time. (Acts 1995, No. 95-649, p. 1357, §1; Act 98-385, p. 732, §3.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.12 - Purchase of Service Credit for Time on Maternity Leave.

Section 16-25-11.12Purchase of service credit for time on maternity leave. (a) Any provision of this chapter, to the contrary notwithstanding, active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System may purchase service credit in the system not to exceed one year for any period of time while they were on maternity leave from service without pay. The Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this section including verification of the service that the member desires to purchase credit for in the system. The member shall receive credit for the service when he or she remits to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing language, no member of the Teachers' Retirement System shall be eligible to receive credit for any period of time 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. (b) Any member who is eligible to purchase service credit in the Teachers' Retirement System under subsection (a) shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the system, prior to October 1, 2001, for the claimed service, a sum equal to the full actuarially determined cost for each year of service credit purchased as determined by the system's actuary. (c) Subsequent to October 1, 2001, any member claiming service credit under the provisions of this section shall claim and purchase the service credit no later than June 30 of the year immediately following the expiration of the maternity leave. (Acts 1996, No. 96-788, p. 1467, §§1, 2; Act 2000-452, p. 814, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.13 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With the Cooperative Extension Service at Auburn University.

Section 16-25-11.13Purchase of credit for prior service with the Cooperative Extension Service at Auburn University. Terminated. (Acts 1997, No. 97-637, p. 1163, §1; Act 2001-1101, 4th Sp. Sess., p. 1162, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.14 - Purchase of Credit for Service Rendered to Authorized Employer.

Section 16-25-11.14Purchase of credit for service rendered to authorized employer. (a) Active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) or the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed eight years for any period of prior service while they were full-time employees of an employer who is authorized to join the TRS pursuant to Section 16-25-10.7, but has not elected to participate. The certification of any prior service claimed by the members under this section shall conform to applicable administrative rules and procedures of the TRS or ERS. Members shall receive credit for the prior service when they remit to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member of the system shall receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or any other public retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program. (b) Any member who is eligible to purchase service credit in the TRS or ERS under subsection (a) shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the system, within one year from September 1, 1999, for the claimed service, a sum equal to the full actuarially required cost for each year of service credit purchased as determined by the actuary for the system. (Act 99-387, p. 614, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 16-25-11.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-11.15 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With Eligible Employer Under Employees' Retirement System.

Section 16-25-11.15Purchase of credit for prior service with eligible employer under Employees' Retirement System. (a)(1) Any person who, as of July 1, 1990, is an officer or a regular employee of an employer participating in the Teachers' Retirement System and who has previously been employed by another employer eligible for participation in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, shall be eligible to receive creditable service for each year of service previously rendered to another employer eligible for participation in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, for up to eight years of creditable service, provided, that the member claiming the credit shall have attained not less than 10 years of contributing membership service credit, exclusive of military service credit under the Teachers' Retirement System, and the member performs and complies with the condition prescribed in subdivision (2). (2) A member of the Teachers' Retirement System eligible under subsection (a), 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 Teachers' Retirement System, the full actuarially determined cost for each year of service purchased as determined by the system's actuary. Notwithstanding the foregoing language, no member of the Teacher's Retirement System shall be eligible to receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or in any other public retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program. (b) The eligible employer defined in subsection (a) shall certify in writing to the Teachers' 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 eight years. In addition, the member is only eligible for a maximum of eight years of service credit under this section regardless of the total number of eligible employers and total years of service. (Act 99-426, p. 758, §1.)