36-27-4
Section 36-27-4 Membership - Generally; denial of membership; absence from service; military
service. (a) The membership of the retirement system shall be composed as follows: (1) All
persons who shall become employees after October 1, 1945, shall become members of the retirement
system as a condition of their employment. (2) Any person who is an employee on October 1,
1945, shall become a member as of that date unless, within a period of 90 days next following,
such employee shall file with the Board of Control on a form prescribed by the board a notice
of his or her election not to be covered in the membership of the system and a duly executed
waiver of all present and prospective benefits which would otherwise inure to him or her on
account of his or her membership in the retirement system. (3) An employee whose membership
in the retirement system is contingent on his or her own election and who elects not to become
a member may thereafter apply for and be admitted to membership...
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36-27-54
Section 36-27-54 Purchase of credit by certain employees of Alabama State Docks Terminal Railway;
waiver of federal railroad retirement benefits; termination date. (a) Any law to the contrary
notwithstanding, any member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama who has 10 or more
years of creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama immediately prior
to October 1, 1990 and who is employed by the State of Alabama at the time this bill becomes
law, may hereby claim and purchase credit within the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama
for all the time which such member has served as an employee of the Alabama State Docks and
was paid through the Alabama State Docks Terminal Railway payroll and for which he is not
otherwise eligible for credit in the Employees' Retirement System or any other retirement
plan funded in whole or in part by the state except under the United States Social Security
Act. (b) Any member eligible to claim and purchase such credit for...
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36-27-57.3
Section 36-27-57.3 Reopening of Employees' Retirement System to allow purchase of credit for
prior service in office of local district attorney. (a) An active and contributing member
of the Employees' Retirement System may claim and purchase credit not to exceed two years
in the retirement system for prior service rendered in the office of a local district attorney
which was a nonparticipant in the Employees' Retirement System during the period of the prior
service. The prior service credit may be purchased if the member has not received credit for
the prior service claimed in any public pension system or as a supernumerary and the member
complies with the provisions set forth in subsection (b). (b) Each person eligible to claim
and purchase credit for any prior service under subsection (a) shall be awarded creditable
service under the Employees' Retirement System provided he or she shall pay into the retirement
system, prior to October 1, 1996, a lump sum equal to a percentage of his...
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36-27-58.1
Section 36-27-58.1 Purchase of credit for certain members away from work due to job-related
injury. (a) Notwithstanding any other laws, any active and contributing member of the
Employees' Retirement System of Alabama may purchase up to two years of service credit for
the time he or she was receiving benefits pursuant to the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act,
commencing with Section 25-5-1, and was absent from work due to a work related and compensable
injury; provided that the member returned to work with his or her covered employer
within one year following cessation of workers' compensation benefits. The Board of Control
of the Employees' Retirement System shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration
of this section including verification of the service that the member desires to purchase
credit for in the system. The member shall receive credit for the service when he or she remits
to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing...

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36-27-71
Section 36-27-71 Conditions precedent to receipt of credit. (a) A member of the Employees'
Retirement System of Alabama who becomes eligible under Section 36-27-70 on or after December
28, 2001, may receive credit for employment rendered to a city, county, or a political subdivision
thereof of the State of Alabama as provided in Section 36-27-70 provided that as conditions
precedent to the receipt of such credit: (1) Such member shall contribute, prior to the date
of his or her retirement to the Employees' Retirement System for each year of employment with
a city, county, or a political subdivision thereof of the State of Alabama, the full actuarially
determined cost for each year of service purchased as determined by the system's actuary.
(2) The city, county, or the political subdivision thereof of the State of Alabama for which
such member was employed shall certify in writing to the Employees' Retirement System the
dates of the member's employment together with a statement...
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41-7A-3
Section 41-7A-3 Purchase of prior service credit for time in Employees' Retirement System.
If the director or a classified employee of the Alabama Film Office has previously served
as an independent contractor of the Alabama Film Office, and desires to purchase prior service
credit for time in the Employees' Retirement System after becoming an active and contributing
member of the retirement system under this chapter, he or she shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer
of the Retirement System in a lump sum within five years from August 9, 1995, the full cost
of the employer and employee contributions necessary to purchase the prior service credit
as determined by the actuary for the retirement system based on the current compensation or
final average compensation of the employee, whichever is greater. (Acts 1995, No. 95-785,
p. 1871, §3.)...
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36-27-57.2
Section 36-27-57.2 Purchase of credit for prior service rendered in office of local district
attorney or as court reporter, or both. (a) An active and contributing member of the Employees'
Retirement System who has been a member of the system for at least 10 years, may claim and
purchase credit not to exceed six years in the retirement system for prior service rendered
while employed in a program in the office of a local district attorney which was a nonparticipant
in the retirement system during the period of the prior service or for prior service rendered
as an official court reporter when court reporters were not allowed to participate in the
retirement system, or for both. The prior service credit may be purchased if the member has
not received credit for the prior service claimed in any public pension system or as a supernumerary
and the member complies with the provisions set forth in subsection (b). (b) Each person eligible
to claim and purchase credit for any prior service...
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36-27-55
Section 36-27-55 Purchase of prior service credit by certain members with prior service in
Office of Agriculture Economics at Auburn University; cost; termination date. (a) Any acting
and contributing member of either the Teachers' or the Employees' Retirement System may elect
to purchase prior service credit for any full time employment he or she had in the Office
of Agriculture Economics at Auburn University, provided such person complies with the following
conditions prescribed in this section. (b) Any member eligible to claim and purchase such
credit for service under subsection (a) of this section shall be awarded creditable service
under either the Teachers' or the Employees' Retirement System, as the case may be, provided
he or she shall pay into his or her retirement system or fund, prior to said member's date
of retirement and prior to October 1, 1991, a sum equal to a percentage of his or her current
annual earnable compensation, or average final compensation, whichever is...
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36-27-56.1
Section 36-27-56.1 Purchase of credit for prior service as county solicitor. (a) Any vested
member of any component system or fund of the Employees' Retirement System may claim and purchase
up to three years' credit in his or her system or fund for up to three years of prior service
which he or she rendered to any county government as a county solicitor. (b) Any vested member
eligible to claim and purchase credit for prior service as a county solicitor under subsection
(a), shall be awarded credit under the appropriate system or fund provided he or she pays
into his or her respective retirement system or fund prior to the member's date of retirement,
a sum of money equal to a percentage of the member's highest annual compensation or final
average salary during the period of prior service, whichever is higher; the applicable percentage
of the highest annual compensation or the final average salary, whichever is higher, shall
be the sum of the prevailing percentage rates of employer and...
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36-27-57.1
Section 36-27-57.1 Purchase of credit for prior service rendered in program financed by federal
grant in office of local district attorney. (a) An active and contributing member of the Employees'
or Teachers' Retirement System who has been a member of the system for at least 10 years,
may claim and purchase credit not to exceed three years in his or her respective retirement
system for prior service rendered while employed in a program in the office of a local district
attorney which was financed at the time the service was rendered by a federal grant if the
member complies with the provisions set forth in subsection (b) of this section. (b) 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 or Teachers'
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...
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