Title 36 — Title 36

Commencing October 1, 2000, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 2000, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Em…

(a) Any city-county-public agency employee eligible for retirement, who retires after July 1, 2000, and before October 1, 2000, shall be eligible to receive the aforementioned increase at the option of the appropriate local government or public agency. The local government or pub…

Any county board, department, or agency responsible for the local administration of a program for a state board, department, or agency affiliated with the Employees’ Retirement System on October 1, 2000, may provide the cost-of-living increase pursuant to this article to any reti…

(a)(1) RETIREMENT, ETC., OF EMPLOYEES GENERALLY; ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS. a. 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 may reti…

(a) Any member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama or the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama who is retired and who has selected a survivor option may cancel the survivor allowance payable to his designated beneficiary. Such election shall be in accordance with the…

(a) Any provision to the contrary, notwithstanding, any member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama or the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama who shall have attained the service requirements for surviving spouse benefits may nominate such person as he may desire to …

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 syste…

Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article shall not be entitled to receive the aforementioned increase. Any person who subsequently applies for …

The provisions of this article are supplemental. It shall be construed in pari materia with other laws regulating and providing for the payment of retirement benefits to the retired members of the Employees’ Retirement System. However, those laws or parts of laws which are in dir…

(a) All retirement allowance payments due on or after October 1, 1975, to members who retired prior to said date shall be redetermined as if the provisions of Acts 1975, No. 1103, amending Section 36-27-1, were in effect at the time the member retired; provided, that the annual r…

(a) As governed by this subsection, there exists as a part of this retirement system, an optional account known as the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, which may be cited as “DROP.” The purpose of DROP is to allow, contractually, in lieu of immediate withdrawal from service and r…

(a) On withdrawing from service pursuant to Section 36-27-16, a member who participated in DROP: (1) Who fulfilled his or her contractual obligation pursuant to DROP shall receive a lump-sum payment from his or her DROP account equal to the payments made to that account on his or…

At no time shall any provision or implementation of such provision pertaining to DROP be contrary to the rules and regulations of the federal law governing governmental plans. DROP is intended to operate in accordance with Section 415 and other applicable sections of the United S…

This article shall not apply to any unit participating pursuant to Section 36-27-6, unless the governing body of such employer shall agree to come under this section and assume any costs associated with implementation of the DROP program. When such a unit exercises an option to p…

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this article or any other laws to the contrary, no employer whose employees are covered under the Employees’ Retirement System shall offer any incentives of value including, but not limited to, monetary payments, prepayment of health in…

Any member of the Employees’ Retirement System who has participated in DROP and withdraws from service under Section 36-27- 171 is not eligible to be restored to active service pursuant to subsection (e) of Section 36-27-16 or subsection (f) of Section 16-25-4. Rather, the employ…

(a) In addition to any law or part of any law relating to service retirement under the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama, any member of the Employees’ Retirement System who withdraws from service after the completion of not less than 30 years of creditable service may retir…

(a) Commencing October 1, 2002, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement Sys…

(a) Commencing October 1, 2002, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2001, and wh…

Commencing October 1, 2002, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2…

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-180 and 36-27-182, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer of the per centum rates of …

(a) Commencing October 1, 2002, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, …

Commencing October 1, 2002, beneficiaries of Employees’ Retirement System pensioners shall receive an increase of three percent of their gross monthly benefit, but not less than fifteen dollars ($15) per month, provided the date of death for the deceased pensioner, or the effecti…

Commencing October 1, 2002, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 2001, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Em…

Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article shall not be entitled to receive the aforementioned increase. Any person who subsequently applies for …

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

(a) Commencing October 1, 2005, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement Sys…

(a) Commencing October 1, 2005, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2004, and wh…

Commencing October 1, 2005, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2…

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-190 and 36-27-192, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer of the per centum rates of …

(a) Commencing October 1, 2005, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, …

Commencing October 1, 2005, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 2004, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Em…

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System shall make all reasonable efforts to notify any employer who participated in the Employees’ Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation by August 4, 2005, that the cost-of-living increase provided for in Section …

Commencing October 1, 2005, there is provided an increase in benefits to certain persons identified in this section who are currently receiving benefits whose effective date of retirement was prior to October 1, 2004, for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirem…

Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid Program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided to retirees and beneficiaries by this article shall not be entitled to receive the aforementioned increase. Any person…

of Control; Immunity of State Officers, Etc. (a) A retirement system is hereby established as a body corporate and placed under the management of the Board of Control for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under the provisions of this article for em…

(a) On or after October 1, 1971, there is hereby provided to any state employee who retired prior to October 1, 1971, an increase in his maximum retirement allowance by an amount of up to five percent, excluding that part of five percent provided by any other legislation in 1971.…

(a) Commencing October 1, 2006, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement Sys…

(a) Commencing October 1, 2006, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2005, and wh…

Commencing October 1, 2006, each person whose employer participated in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2…

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-200 and 36-27-202, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer of the per centum rates of …

(a) Commencing October 1, 2006, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System, …

Commencing October 1, 2006, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 2005, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Em…

The Board of Control of the Employees’ Retirement System shall make all reasonable efforts to notify any employer who participated in the Employees’ Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation by October 1, 2006, that the cost-of-living increase provided for in Section…

Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid Program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article shall not be entitled to receive the aforementioned increase. Any person who subsequently applies for …

Commencing October 1, 2006, there is provided an increase in benefits to certain persons identified in this section who are currently receiving benefits whose effective date of retirement was prior to October 1, 2005, for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees’ Retirem…

(a) Any pensioner and any retired member and any member who retires after June 1, 1975, under the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama whose maximum retirement allowance is based on the minimum guarantee and whose maximum retirement allowance, after taking into account the red…

Living Increases Thereafter. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, each person having retired under the provision of statutes governing the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama prior to October 1, 1977, shall be entitled to receive, in addition…

(a) There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1980, to any person retired prior to October 1, 1979, under the Teachers’ Retirement System or Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama and who is receiving a retirement allowance therefrom, a cost-of- living increase in his maxi…

(a) There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1982, to any person retired prior to October 1, 1981, under the Teachers’ Retirement System or Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama and who is receiving a retirement allowance therefrom, a cost-of- living increase of $1.00 pe…