Title 16

(a) The governing body of the School Superintendents of Alabama, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, may elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and in whatev…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Higher Education Partnership, Inc., by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, may elect to have its officers and employees, from whatever source and in whateve…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision 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 employees, from whate…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Vocational Association 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 employees, from whatever source and in whatever …

(a) The governing board of the Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers 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 employees, from whatever source and i…

(a) The governing board of the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center 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 employees, from whatever source…

Any person now serving as an elected superintendent of education in this state may become a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama within 90 days after the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama 1901 allowing elected superintendents of education…

(a) Any governing body of any community action agency organized pursuant to Sections 11-80-4.1, 11-96-3 or 11-96-6 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 …

(a) The governing body of the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation 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 a…

(a) This section shall apply only to the employees and executive staff members of the Tennessee Valley Rehabilitation Center, Inc., who were active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retirement System on August 1, 1994 through John C. Calhoun Community College. (b) The Boa…

(a) Under such rules and regulations as the Board of Control shall adopt, each person who was a teacher prior to October 1, 1940, and who under the provisions of this chapter makes up contributions plus eight percent compound interest on such contributions for the time said teach…

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 c…

(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…

(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…

THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2022-424 IN THE 2022 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2022. TO SEE THE AMENDED VERSION, SEE THE VERSION LABELED PENDING. (a) Any provision of this chapter, to the contrary notwithstanding, active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retireme…

Terminated. (Acts 1997, No. 97-637, p. 1163, §1; Act 2001-1101, 4th Sp. Sess., p. 1162, §1.)

(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 …

(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 Secti…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed two years for prior service as a full-time employee of the Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program for the period of time between Septem…

(a) An active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who has 10 years of creditable service in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama may purchase up to four years service credit in the system for prior service rendered as a full-time employee with the Dep…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Employees’ Retirement System may elect to purchase prior service credit in the system for employment that the member had with the United States Civil Service at any military base of the United States…

(a) Any active, vested, and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed 8 years for prior service as a full-time employee of the Federal Bureau of Mines. The certification of prior service claimed under …

(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’ R…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system for any prior service described and limited as follows: (1) Not more than one year for time spent on medical leave approved by the state or local employer…

(a) Any active, vested, and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who has been employed in public education for a minimum of 10 years may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed five years for prior service between 1974 and 1989 rendered to …

(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 abs…

(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 S…

(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 …

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama who was a regular employee of a school operated by the Department of Defense of the United States of America and is now covered by the Teachers’ Retirement System shall be eligible to receive cre…

(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 o…

(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 …

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama who, prior to October 1, 1993, was a regular full-time employee as an official court reporter with a circuit court in the state or a full-time employee of a local mental health authority or schoo…

Any member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who is now entitled to receive credit for prior service and whose service as a teacher, as defined in Section 16-25-1, was interrupted by service in the armed forces of the United States during World War I shall be eligible to receive…

(a) Any person who, as of September 5, 1973, is presently covered or is eligible to be covered under the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama and who, prior to such coverage or eligibility for coverage, served as an elective official of the state government or a department head…

(a) All employees of state junior colleges and Athens State University who are participating in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama on July 22, 1987, may elect to purchase credit for their total years of service rendered to such employer prior to the time said employer was…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama, who prior to July 31, 1995, was a regular employee of Walker College, may claim and purchase prior service credit, not to exceed five years, for that prior service. Contributing members have one…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase credit in the system not to exceed seven years for prior service as a director of nursing in a nursing program at Walker College between January 1, 1981, and December 31, 1987, while …

(a)(1) Any Tier I plan member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 60 and any Tier II plan member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 62, or in the case of a Tier II plan member who is a correctional officer, firefighter, or law enforc…

(a) On or after October 1, 1969, there is hereby provided to any teacher who was receiving a retirement allowance from the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama and who was retired prior to October 1, 1969, an increase in his or her maximum retirement allowance in the amount of …

(a) On or after October 1, 1971, there is hereby provided to any teacher who was receiving an increased retirement allowance under the provisions of Section 16-25-15 an increase in his or her retirement allowance by an amount of up to five percent, excluding that part of five per…

(a) There is hereby created a cost-of-living increase, not to exceed 15 percent in any case, which shall be applied to the benefit of any retired teacher or any teacher who retires after October 1, 1975, whose retirement benefit, when calculated upon the 2.0125 percent factor, do…

(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 p…

(a) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees which shall be known as the Board of Control and shall be organized immediately aft…

(a) There shall be a retirement system which shall constitute a body corporate and shall be under the management of the Board of Control for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under the provisions of this chapter for teachers of the State of Alabama…

(a)(1) The Board of Control shall be the trustees of the several funds of the Teachers’ Retirement System created by this chapter as provided in Section 16-25-21, and shall have full power to invest and reinvest the funds, through its Secretary-Treasurer, in the classes of bonds,…

Effective October 1, 1997, all the assets of the retirement system shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held among three funds, namely: The Annuity Savings Fund, the Pension Accumulation Fund, and the Expense Fund. The operation of the former Pension Rese…