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11-40-17.1
Section 11-40-17.1 Class 1 municipalities authorized to grant pension benefit increases to
participants in former municipal pension plans. The city council of any Class 1 municipality
may grant pension plan benefit increases to retired employee participants, and their beneficiaries,
in terminated or inactive former pension plans of any Class 1 municipality, provided the increases
shall not exceed the increases granted to retired participants in the City of Birmingham Retirement
and Relief System created under Act No. 929, 1951 Regular Session, as amended. The benefit
increases may be retroactive but shall be granted only after the city council receives the
opinion of a licensed actuary regarding the cost of any increase. (Acts 1995, No. 95-562,
p. 1174. §1.)...
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45-28A-45.58
Section 45-28A-45.58 Exemptions. No portion of the policemen's and firemen's retirement fund
shall, before or after its order for distribution by the board of trustees to the person or
persons entitled thereto under this section, be held, seized, taken, subjected to, detained,
or levied upon, by virtue of any attachment, garnishment, execution, injunction, writ, order,
decree, or any other process whatsoever, issued out of or by any court of this state, for
the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, damage, demand, claim, judgment,
or decree, against any beneficiary of such fund, but shall be exempt therefrom. The fund shall
be sacredly kept, held, and distributed for the purposes named in this subpart, and for no
other purpose whatsoever. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §10.)...
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16-25-21
Section 16-25-21 Method of financing. 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 Reserve Fund and the Annuity Reserve Fund shall be discontinued
as of such date, the balance of the former Pension Reserve Fund shall be transferred to the
Pension Accumulation Fund, and the balance of the former Annuity Reserve Fund shall be transferred
to the Pension Accumulation Fund. (1) The Annuity Savings Fund shall be a fund in which shall
be accumulated contributions from the compensation of members to provide for their annuities.
Contributions to and payments from the Annuity Savings Fund shall be made as follows: a. Each
employer shall cause to be deducted from the salary of each member on each and every payroll
of such employer for each and every payroll period five...
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36-27-24
Section 36-27-24 Funds for assets of retirement system - Creation; composition; disposition
of funds; appropriations. (a) 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 Reserve Fund and the Annuity Reserve Fund shall be discontinued
as of such date and the balance of the former Pension Reserve Fund shall be transferred to
the Pension Accumulation Fund, and the balance of the former Annuity Reserve Fund shall be
transferred to the Pension Accumulation Fund. (b) Annuity Savings Fund. The Annuity Savings
Fund shall be a fund in which shall be accumulated contributions from the compensation of
members to provide for their annuities. Contributions to and payments from the Annuity Savings
Fund shall be made as follows: Effective October 1, 1971, each employer shall...
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45-28A-42.53
Section 45-28A-42.53 Secretary-treasurer; custodial care of the retirement fund. (a) The board
of trustees, if it so elects, and with the approval of the governing body of the city, shall
have the power and authority to appoint a secretary-treasurer of the board who shall serve
at the pleasure of the board and who shall receive a compensation for his or her services
the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75) per month or such other amount of compensation as the
board of trustees shall provide by majority vote and shall be approved by the governing body
of the city, to be paid on the first day of each month by warrant drawn in like manner as
other warrants on such fund. The secretary-treasurer of the board of trustees is hereby made,
and it shall be his or her duty to be the custodian of all monies belonging to the policemen's
and firemen's retirement fund, and all monies belonging to such fund, and all money or other
property belonging to such fund, and all money or other property belonging...
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45-37-123.150
Section 45-37-123.150 Amendments. (a) The pension board shall have the right at any time to
amend the plan, subject to the limitations of this section. Any amendment shall be consistent
with the act, any other legislation relating to the system, or consistent with other authority
granted to the pension board. Additionally, in the event that the Legislature amends the act
or makes other statutory changes that impact the terms of the plan, the pension board shall
cause the plan to be amended as necessary to reflect such legislation. The pension board,
and each of its individual members, when acting in its or their official capacity, shall be
immune from civil liability against the claims of any individual, member, or other entity
of any nature whatsoever arising out of the pension board's or its members' administration
of the plan or related to its decisions or actions, which decisions or actions were made in
good faith, without malice, and predicated upon information that was then...
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11-43-7.2
Section 11-43-7.2 Additional expense allowances for members of council or governing body of
Class 1 municipalities. (a) In addition to the authority granted by Section 11-43-7.1, the
council or other governing body of any Class 1 municipality may grant to the members of the
council or governing body, an additional amount of money monthly for expenses incurred by
the members when attending to the business of the municipality within its corporate limits.
The maximum amount of the additional expense allowance shall be three hundred thirty-three
dollars and thirty-three cents ($333.33) per month. (b) Notwithstanding all other provisions
of law, any council or governing body member may elect in writing to have the expense allowances
authorized by subsection (a) of this section and Section 11-43-7.1, become subject to the
withholding of any employee contribution required to be paid into the trust fund of any pension
or retirement system in which the member is eligible to participate. A...
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45-37A-51.236
death prior to commencement of accrual of a retirement allowance in his or her favor. Any such
designation may be changed from time to time by an employee member. Each such designation
shall be signed and dated by the employee member, and the last signed and dated designation
shall prevail over any former designation. The rights of the last designated severance beneficiary
shall be governed by Section 45-37A-51.235. (b) If a firefighter or police officer has executed
an instrument providing for the board of managers of the supplemental pension system established
by Subpart 1 to receive return of contributions made by him or her in the event of his or
her death, then the right of the board of managers to receive the return of the contributions
shall prevail over the claim of the severance beneficiary, or spouse, or children, or father,
or mother, or sisters, or brothers, or personal representative of such deceased firefighter
or police officer. (Act 2006-339, p. 851, Art. VI, §18.)...
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45-37-123.01
RETIREMENT BENEFIT. A benefit payable pursuant to the terms of subsection (a) of Section 45-37-123.100.
(52) SYSTEM or PLAN. The General Retirement System for Employees of Jefferson County, which
system or plan may sue or be sued, and in such name all of its business shall be transacted.
(53) SPOUSE. The legal wife or husband of a member as determined in accordance with federal
law. (54) TOTAL DISABILITY. A permanent physical or mental condition of a member resulting
from bodily injury, disease, or mental disorder which renders such member incapable
of continuing usual and customary employment with the county. The disability of a member shall
be determined by a licensed medical advisor. (55) TRUSTEE. The pension board or the person
or entity appointed by the pension board and named as trustee herein or in any separate trust
forming a part of the plan, and any successors. (56) TRUST FUND. The tax-qualified trust in
which certain plan funds are held, disbursed, transferred,...
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11-40-17.3
Section 11-40-17.3 Retroactive Deferred Retirement Option Plan. (a) This section shall apply
to Class 1 municipalities only. (b) There is established a Retroactive Deferred Retirement
Option ("Back Drop") Plan for any retirement and relief system established pursuant
to Act 1272, 1973 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 2124), as amended. A participant who retires
at least 90 days following July 1, 2002, who has then completed at least 23 years of credited
service, and who is otherwise entitled to retire and receive a normal retirement benefit,
shall have the opportunity to elect a Back Drop plan. A participant eligible for the Back
Drop plan can elect in writing at his or her retirement to retroactively drop his or her credited
service in excess of 20 years, for a period of months not exceeding 36 months immediately
preceding the date of retirement (the "Back Drop period"); provided that the beginning
of the Back Drop period may not extend past the earliest date on which the participant...
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