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AL Code § 16-25-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-18 - Redetermination of Allowances of Certain Retired Members.

Section 16-25-18Redetermination of allowances of certain retired members. (a) Any member who retired prior to October 1, 1975 and who has served in the armed services, as described in Section 16-25-3, shall be entitled to claim such full-time military service and to have all retirement allowances due on or after October 1, 1975 redetermined as if the provisions of said section, as amended, were in effect at the time such member retired; provided, that such retired member pays into the Teachers' Retirement System, in a lump sum prior to October 1, 1976, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation which was paid to a teacher 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; 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 allowances or benefits, from any branch of the 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. (b) Anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no retirement allowance payment shall be redetermined for any pay period prior to such retired member's full and complete compliance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. Any increase provided in the retirement allowance payment under this section for a member who retired under the provisions of any optional benefit elected pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 16-25-14, as amended, or under any other law or part of law pertaining to the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama shall accrue only to the retired member, and no person designated to receive any payments after the death of such retired member under the provisions of any such optional benefit shall receive any increase in such payments under this section. (Acts 1975, No. 1109, p. 2200, §2.)
AL Code § 16-25-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-22 - Purchase, Sale, etc., of Interests or Estates in Real Property; Establishment of Facilities and Procedures for Purchase of and Payment for Equipment, Etc.

Section 16-25-22Purchase, sale, etc., of interests or estates in real property; establishment of facilities and procedures for purchase of and payment for equipment, etc. (a) The Retirement Systems of Alabama, which consist of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, and the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama shall have within their corporate powers the right to purchase, sell and hold title, in their own name, to any interest or estate in real property. Such property shall be exempt from all state and local ad valorem taxes and shall not be subject to regulations or laws regarding the sale or lease of state property. (b) The Retirement Systems of Alabama shall have within their corporate powers the right to establish, as is consistent with the intent and purpose of the competitive bid laws of the State of Alabama, such facilities and procedures for the making of purchases and for the payment of all equipment and expenses reasonably necessary to the operation of the Retirement Systems of Alabama. (Acts 1975, No. 1106, p. 2185, §2; Act 98-385, p. 732, §6.)
AL Code § 16-25-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-24 - False Statements; Correction of Errors.

Section 16-25-24False statements; 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 retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such act 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 change 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 a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid. (Acts 1939, No. 419, p. 559, § 10; Code 1940, T. 52, §371.)
AL Code § 16-25-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-25 - Limitation on Membership.

Section 16-25-25Limitation on membership. No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of Alabama or of any political subdivision thereof for pensions or retirement benefits for teachers of the said state, except as may be provided by state and federal laws for coverage under the provisions of the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System of the Social Security Act, shall apply to members of the retirement system established by this chapter; provided, that if any member who filed an enrollment with the Board of Control on or before September 1, 1942, and who was certified to the Board of Control as an employee of a county board of education which had a statutory pension plan in effect on September 1, 1941, should receive upon retirement on or before July 1, 1950, a retirement allowance less than the pension which would have been provided for him under the local pension plan, then such member shall be eligible to receive a supplement to his retirement allowance payable from funds provided by said county board of education in an amount sufficient to make his total retirement allowance equal the amount which he would have received if he had been retired under the provisions of the local statute. (Acts 1939, No. 419, p. 559, §11; Code 1940, T. 52, §372; Acts 1943, No. 61, p. 35, §8; Acts 1953, No. 41, p. 44, §5.)
AL Code § 16-25-26.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-26.1 - Election by University President to Resume Participation.

Section 16-25-26.1Election by university president to resume participation. (a) Any person who is a retired teacher, and retired under the provisions of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, and who subsequent to said retirement becomes the acting President of the University of Alabama, may elect to resume his participation in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama. (b) Should any person make such election as set forth in subsection (a) of this section, his retirement benefits shall cease and the reserves remaining for his pension and annuity and all his service credits shall be transferred to the appropriate funds and accounts maintained for active members. Upon restoration to active service the member shall receive full rights, privileges and benefits under the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama for his total years of service thereunder. (Acts 1981, No. 81-786, p. 1378.)
AL Code § 16-25-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-27 - Admissibility in Evidence of Photo-Reproduced Copies of Records or Documents Maintained by System.

Section 16-25-27Admissibility in evidence of photo-reproduced copies of records or documents maintained by system. Official copies of records or documents maintained on microfilm, microfiche or other photo reproductive material of archival quality by the Teachers' Retirement System shall be admissible as primary evidence in any legal, judicial or administrative proceeding or action for the purpose of proving the truth of the contents of the photo-reproduced copies of such records or documents, regardless of any rule of evidence or law relating to the proof of such matters; provided, that the Secretary-Treasurer of the Retirement System of Alabama shall certify on such copies offered into evidence that the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama is not in possession of the original and that the copy is a true and correct representation of the original. (Acts 1975, No. 1105, p. 2181, §2.)
AL Code § 16-25-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-28 - Proposed Legislation Affecting System to Be Accompanied by Actuarial Estimate of Cost.

Section 16-25-28Proposed legislation affecting system to be accompanied by actuarial estimate of cost. All proposed legislation affecting the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama shall be accompanied by an actuarial estimate of the cost involved in such proposed legislation. (Acts 1973, No. 1284, p. 2196, § 1.)
AL Code § 16-25-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-29 - For Prior Service for Employment While Student at Public Institution of Higher Learning.

Section 16-25-29for prior service for employment while student at public institution of higher learning. (a) No person who is an active and contributing member of or retired from the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama and as a student was previously employed in a full-time position by a public educational institution of higher learning in Alabama may claim and purchase credit for such service unless the provisions of this section are complied with, and in no event after June 30, 1989, provided further, that no service as a student employee may be purchased unless such employment consisted of at least 20 hours of service per week. (b) Any person eligible to claim and purchase credit for service as a full-time student employee shall be awarded credit for such service under the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama provided he or she shall comply with the following requirements: (1) Such person shall provide certification to the Teachers' Retirement System on or before October 1, 1988, of the time of service and salary for each period of claimed service. Such certification shall be made by the employing institution from official employment records, provided that where such records are not available, certification by the employing institution of such unavailability together with verification of such service and salary by two disinterested persons, not related to the claimant, with personal knowledge of the claimant's service shall be accepted as proof of such service, and (2) Such person shall on or before June 30, 1989, pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama a sum equal to the total contributions which he or she would have made as a member during the period of claimed service together with eight percent compounded interest through the date of payment. (Acts 1988, No. 88-653, p. 1050, §1; Acts 1989, No. 89-525, p. 1074, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-30 - Students in Primary or Secondary School and Persons Whose Employment Is Incidental to Status as Student at Public Institution of Higher Learning Ineligible to Participate.

Section 16-25-30Students in primary or secondary school and persons whose employment is incidental to status as student at public institution of higher learning ineligible to participate. (a) No person who is a student in a primary or secondary school shall be eligible to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama. (b) No person employed on or after May 13, 1988, by an employer whose employees are covered by the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama and whose employment is incidental to such person's status as a student at a public educational institution of higher learning shall be eligible to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama. (Acts 1988, No. 88-653, p. 1050, §2.)
AL Code § 16-25-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-31 - Effective Date of Benefits; Additional Costs of Benefits; Employer Agreeing to Come Under Provisions.

Section 16-25-31Effective date of benefits; additional costs of benefits; employer agreeing to come under provisions. The benefits provided by Sections 16-25-14(a), 16-25-14(g), 36-27-16(a), 36-27-16(c) and 36-27B-3, as amended by amendment of May 5, 1988, shall become effective to the Teachers' and Employees' Retirement System the first day of the month next following certification by the systems' actuary, which shall be adopted by the Board of Control of the Teachers' and Employees' Retirement System, that the system can absorb the additional costs of the benefits herein provided for the upcoming fiscal year without increasing the employer contribution as set forth in subdivisions (3) and (5) of Section 16-25-21 and subsections (d) and (f) of Section 36-27-24, provided further in the case of an employer participating pursuant to Section 36-27-6, the provisions of said sections relating to the Employees' Retirement System as amended by said amendment of May 5, 1988, with respect to the employees of such employer, shall become effective the first of the month next following adoption of a resolution by the employer agreeing to come under the provisions of said amendment and further agreeing to assume the cost of benefits provided therein with regards to its employees. It is further provided and expressly understood with respect to the foregoing conditions that any increase in the employer cost rate which is appropriated in a special cost-of-living increase for retired employees shall not be considered when determining the employer cost rate for purposes of this section. (Acts 1988, No. 88-548, p. 849, §7.)
AL Code § 16-25-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-32 - Admission of Employees and Members of State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Credit Union Into Teachers' Retirement System.

Section 16-25-32Admission of employees and members of State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Credit Union into Teachers' Retirement System. (a) The governing body of the Alabama State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Employees' Credit Union may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and full-time employees, from whatever source and in whatever manner paid, become eligible to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, subject to all rules, regulations and conditions thereof. (b) The governing body of the Alabama State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Employees' Credit Union having made an election through a resolution as provided in subsection (a) hereof, their employees and executive officers may participate in and be entitled to all benefits of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, provided that where contributions are made from salaries paid by the Alabama State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Employees' Credit Union the entities shall pay the employer costs as a percentage of the salaries of those employees, to be contributed as employer in accordance with Section 16-25-21. Such amounts shall be paid monthly and at the same time as the members' contributions are made to the Teachers' Retirement System. (c) The governing body of the Alabama State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association or the State Employees' Credit Union may provide in its resolution to the Teachers' Retirement System Board of Control that all service rendered by an eligible employee or executive officer previous to the effective date of said group's election to come under the Teachers' Retirement System, shall be creditable service to such employee or executive officer; provided, that any such provision shall apply only to those employees and officers who were in the active service of the group on the effective date of said group's election to be covered under the Teachers' Retirement System; and provided further, that the said resolution also states that the Alabama State Employees' Association, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association and the State Employees' Credit Union shall assume and pay, as required, all costs necessary to fund the crediting of such previous service, such costs to be determined by the actuary employed by the Teachers' Retirement System Board of Control. (Acts 1989, No. 89-422, p. 886, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 16-25-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-33 - Term Life Insurance Fund; Payment of Benefits; Funding.

Section 16-25-33Term Life Insurance Fund; payment of benefits; funding. (a) A separate fund to be known as the Term Life Insurance Fund is hereby established within the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama. Such fund shall consist of all monies paid by the employers for term life insurance, and of the investment earnings of such monies and all such funds shall be used only for the payment of benefits provided by this section. (b) Commencing October 1, 1995, upon proof satisfactory to the board of the death of a contributing member who is a full-time employee there shall be paid in the form of a term life insurance benefit the sum of $15,000. On account of the death of a part-time employee, the benefit provided herein shall be prorated based on the employee's percent of full-time employment. This benefit shall be paid to the designated beneficiary on file with the Teachers' Retirement System. For purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed a contributing member if (1) he or she is in active pay status at the time of death or (2) he or she dies within 90 days of being in active pay status. (c) The Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System shall determine annually the amount to pay the cost of the benefits provided in this section as a percentage rate of earnable compensation of members required to be paid to the Teachers' Retirement System. The employers' payment on account of the benefits provided in this section shall be paid in the same manner and from the same source of funds as is provided in Section 16-25-21, it being the intent of the Legislature that the cost of providing the benefits provided for in this section shall be distributed from all funds in proportion to the salaries paid therefrom for active members. (Acts 1995, No. 95-538, p. 1100, §14; Act 2000-454, p. 818, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 16-25-34 - Compliance With Qualification Standards.

Section 16-25-34Compliance with qualification standards. The Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama is authorized to implement any new accounting procedures, funds, or administrative changes and to provide for the payment of benefits to members or beneficiaries of the retirement system as may be necessary to ensure the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama's compliance with the qualification standards required of public pension plans by the Internal Revenue Code of the United States. (Act 98-385, p. 732, §10(a).)
AL Code § 16-25-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Cost of Living Increase Where Effective Date of Retirement Prior to October 1, 1987.|Section 16-25-40 - Persons Whose Date of Retirement Is Prior to October 1, 1987 or Beneficiaries of Deceased Members or Retirees Entitled to Cost of Living Increases.

Section 16-25-40Persons whose date of retirement is prior to October 1, 1987 or beneficiaries of deceased members or retirees entitled to cost of living increases. There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1988, to each person whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1987, and to beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees 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 Teachers' Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1987, and who is receiving a monthly allowance from the Teachers' Retirement System a cost-of-living increase as follows: (1) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1. (2) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree reduced by the retiree's option election factor for each retiree selecting Options 2, 3 or 4. (3) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said deceased member or deceased retiree reduced by the survivor's option factor for each beneficiary receiving monthly benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System. (Acts 1988, No. 88-600, p. 932, §1; Acts 1989, No. 89-525, p. 1074, §1.)
AL Code § 16-25-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Cost of Living Increase Where Effective Date of Retirement Prior to October 1, 1987.|Section 16-25-41 - Persons Whose Date of Retirement Is Prior to October 1, 1987 or Beneficiaries of Deceased Members or Retirees Entitled to Cost-of-Living Increases - Additional Adjustments.

Section 16-25-41Persons whose date of retirement is prior to October 1, 1987 or beneficiaries of deceased members or retirees entitled to cost-of-living increases - Additional adjustments. In addition to the foregoing amount an additional cost-of-living adjustment is provided effective October 1, 1989 as follows: (1) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1. (2) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree reduced by the retiree's option election factor for each retiree selecting Options 2, 3 or 4. (3) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said deceased member or deceased retiree reduced by the survivor's option factor for each beneficiary receiving monthly benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System. (Acts 1988, No. 88-600, p. 932, §2.)