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AL Code § 36-21-55.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 21 - Law Enforcement Officers Generally.|Article 3 - Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.|Division 2|Section 36-21-55.3 - Background Checks Required for Employment or Appointment of Law Enforcement Officers.

Section 36-21-55.3Background checks required for employment or appointment of law enforcement officers. (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. (Act 2021-268, §4.)
AL Code § 36-21-55.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 21 - Law Enforcement Officers Generally.|Article 3 - Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.|Division 2|Section 36-21-55.4 - Compliance With the Reporting Requirements.

Section 36-21-55.4Compliance with the reporting requirements. (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. (Act 2021-268, §5.)
AL Code § 36-27-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-40 - Definitions.

Section 36-27-40Definitions. All words and phrases defined in Section 36-27-1 shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in such section whenever used in this division, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §1.)
AL Code § 36-27-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-42 - Credit for Prior Service - Generally.

Section 36-27-42Credit for prior service - Generally. Any member who was a member of the Employees' Retirement System on October 1, 1974, and who prior to said date had been ineligible to receive credit for service rendered as an employee prior to October 1, 1945, for reasons other than having been employed as a nonmember, shall be eligible under the provisions of Article 1 of this chapter to receive credit for all service as an employee rendered by him prior to the date of establishment of the retirement system; provided, that such person has never waived his claim on the funds of the retirement system by withdrawing his accumulated contributions to said funds; and provided, that said member has not been absent from service more than five years in any period of six consecutive years after becoming a member of the retirement system. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §3.)
AL Code § 36-27-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-43 - Credit for Prior Service - School Bus Driver, Mechanic or Maintenance Worker.

Section 36-27-43Credit for prior service - School bus driver, mechanic or maintenance worker. Any person who is presently a regular employee of the State of Alabama and is covered or eligible to be covered under the state Employees' Retirement System and who, prior to such regular employment was employed as a fully budgeted school bus driver (not a student), mechanic or maintenance worker by any county or city board of education or the governing board of any public school in Alabama regardless of the source from which and the manner in which his salary was paid, shall be entitled to receive credit for all service in such capacity rendered by him prior to October 1, 1971; provided, that such person shall pay into the Employees' Retirement System, within six months from October 1, 1975, a sum equal to the total contributions which he would have made as a member during the period of such employment from October 1, 1945, to October 1, 1971. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §9.)
AL Code § 36-27-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-44 - Interest on Contributions.

Section 36-27-44Interest on contributions. Any law or part of law relating to the payment of interest on contributions as a prerequisite to the granting of credit for withdrawn, terminated, nonmembership or military service under the Employees' Retirement System notwithstanding, any eligible employee, member or retired member who claims such service shall pay into the retirement system, in addition to the contributions required, interest of eight percent, compounded annually, on such contributions, as a prerequisite to the granting of said service credit. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §4.)
AL Code § 36-27-45 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-45 - Redetermination of Allowance Payments Due on or After October 1, 1975.

Section 36-27-45Redetermination of allowance payments due on or after October 1, 1975. All retirement allowance payments due on or after October 1, 1975, to members of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama who retired prior to said date shall be redetermined as if the provisions of this division were in effect at the time they retired; provided, that 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 Article 1 of this chapter 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 payment under this section. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §5.)
AL Code § 36-27-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-46 - Employer Cost Continuing Liability.

Section 36-27-46Employer cost continuing liability. Anything in this division to the contrary notwithstanding, the employer cost for the granting of any service credit granted under the provisions of this division shall become the continuing liability of the employer for whom such service was rendered. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §6.)
AL Code § 36-27-47 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-47 - Appropriations.

Section 36-27-47Appropriations. There is hereby appropriated annually from the funds from which salaries are paid the amounts sufficient to carry out the provisions of this division. In the case of those departments, supported wholly by transfers from other state funds, there is hereby appropriated from the supportive funds such additional amounts as may be necessary to pay the employer contribution of each department so supported, in the same proportion as the other state funds contribute to the support and maintenance of such department. (Acts 1975, No. 1102, p. 2173, §8.)
AL Code § 36-27-48 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-48 - Purchase of Prior Service Credits by Certain Active Members; Termination Date.

Section 36-27-48Purchase of prior service credits by certain active members; termination date. (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 Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, who is an active member of either system, and who has rendered eligible service to any employer covered under either system, may hereby claim and purchase credit for any such prior service as an employee of any such employer. Any active and contributing member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, who is an active member of either system, may claim and purchase up to four years' credit for United States military service. (c) Any member eligible to claim and purchase credit for service under subsection (b) of this section shall be awarded such credit under the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama provided he shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of his respective retirement system prior to said member's date of retirement a sum equal to a percentage of his current annual earnable compensation; the applicable percentage of his current annual earnable compensation shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuation. (d) The provisions granted under this section to reopen the retirement systems shall terminate October 1, 1981, and no one shall be eligible to utilize any of the options granted herein if not fully exercised and paid prior to October 1, 1981. (e) The provisions of this section are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal or supersede any laws or parts of laws not directly inconsistent herewith. (Acts 1980, No. 80-639, p. 1207, §§ 1-5.)
AL Code § 36-27-48.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-48.1 - Credit in System for Period of Service for Which Position Excluded.

Section 36-27-48.1Credit in system for period of service for which position excluded. (a) Any active and contributing member of the Employees' Retirement System who is an employee of an employer participating in the system pursuant to Section 36-27-6, and whose current position was once excluded by the employer from participating in the system, may receive credit in the system for the period of full-time service for which his or her position was excluded by the employer from participating in the system, provided the member claiming the credit has been continuously employed by the employer since January 1, 1987, and the member performs and complies with the conditions prescribed in subsection (b) of this section. (b) A member of the Employees' Retirement System eligible to purchase credit in the system under subsection (a) of this section shall receive the credit after satisfying the following conditions: (1) Each person eligible to claim and purchase the credit for service under subsection (a) of this section shall be awarded creditable service under the Employees' Retirement System provided he or she shall pay into the retirement system, prior to October 1, 1995, a lump sum equal to the percentage of his or her current annual earnable compensation, or final average compensation, whichever is greater, for each year of service credit purchased; the current annual earnable compensation or final average compensation, whichever is greater, shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuation. (2) The employer shall certify in writing to the Employees' Retirement System the dates of the period of full-time employment for which the member is claiming credit. (Acts 1994, No. 94-721, p. 1419, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 36-27-49 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-49 - Purchase of Credit for Active Military Service; Limitations; Termination Date.

Section 36-27-49Purchase of credit for active military service; limitations; termination date. (a) Any active and contributing member of any one of the State of Alabama retirement systems who has been such a member for 10 consecutive years and has not previously purchased credit for military service with any one of the State of Alabama retirement systems may hereby claim and purchase credit in his or her respective retirement system for up to four years' creditable service for time which such member has served in the active full-time military service of the Armed Forces of the United States, exclusive of any summer, weekend, or other part-time active military service in any reserve or National Guard component of any branch of the armed forces, provided said member has not received credit toward retirement status in such retirement system for said military service, and further provided that such member 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 United States Armed Forces or by reason of any such service in any branch of the armed forces; and provided further that such member received an honorable discharge for and including the claimed military service. (b) Any member eligible to claim and purchase credit for service under subsection (a) of this section shall be awarded such credit under any such Retirement System of Alabama provided he or she shall pay into his or her respective retirement system or fund prior to said member's date of retirement and prior to October 1, 1986, a sum of money which is equal to a percentage of the member's current annual earnable compensation; the applicable percentage shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions as determined by the system's annual actuarial valuation for each year of purchased service. (c) The provisions of this section to reopen the retirement system or fund for military service credit shall terminate October 1, 1986, and no one shall be eligible to utilize any of the options granted herein if not fully exercised and paid prior to October 1, 1986. (Acts 1984, No. 84-382, p. 891, §§ 1-3.)
AL Code § 36-27-49.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-49.1 - Credit for Military Service; Option Must Be Exercised and Paid Before October 1, 1986.

Section 36-27-49.1Credit for military service; option must be exercised and paid before October 1, 1986. (a) Any active and contributing member of any one of the State of Alabama retirement systems who has been such a member for six consecutive years or more or any former such member who has vested retirement benefits may hereby claim and purchase credit in his or her respective retirement system for up to four years' time which such member has served in the military service of the Armed Forces of the United States exclusive of any weekend or state active military service in any reserve or National Guard component of any branch of the armed forces, provided said member or former member has not received credit toward retirement status in such retirement system for said military service, and further provided that such member or former member shall receive no credit for military service if such member or former member is receiving military service retirement benefits other than disability allowance 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; and provided further that any discharge received by any such member or former member from any of the claimed military service has been honorable. (b) Any member or former member eligible to claim and purchase credit for service under subsection (a) of this section shall be awarded such credit under any such Retirement System of Alabama provided he or she shall pay into his or her respective retirement system or fund prior to said member or former member's date of retirement and prior to October 1, 1986 a sum of money which is equal to both the member's and the state's annual contribution into the respective retirement system or fund at the time of election to purchase the aforesaid credit multiplied by each year or fraction thereof of military service credit desired. In the case of a former member, such sum would be an amount equal to the annual contribution such former member and the state would pay if he or she were currently an active and contributing member at the time of said election. (c) The provisions of this section to reopen the retirement system or fund for military service credit shall terminate October 1, 1986, and no one shall be eligible to utilize any of the options granted herein if not fully exercised and paid prior to October 1, 1986. (Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-1001, p. 379, §§ 1-3.)
AL Code § 36-27-49.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 2 - Reopening of System for Certain Employees.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 36-27-49.2 - Claiming and Purchasing Credit for Retirement System Service and Military Service; Option Must Be Exercised and Paid Before October 1, 1988.

Section 36-27-49.2Claiming and purchasing credit for retirement system service and military service; option must be exercised and paid before 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 Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, who is an active member of either system, and who has rendered service to any employer covered under such system, may hereby claim and purchase credit for any such service as an employee and may purchase credit for prior military service of any such employer. (c) Any member eligible to claim and purchase credit for service under subsection (b) hereof, shall be awarded such credit under the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama provided he shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of his respective retirement system prior to said member's date of retirement a sum equal to a percentage of his current annual earnable compensation for each year of service purchased; the applicable percentage of his current annual earnable compensation shall be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and member contributions, as required by the most recent actuarial valuation, for each year of service purchased. (d) The provisions granted under this section to reopen the retirement systems 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. 87-731, p. 1424, §§ 1-4.)