12-18-5
Section 12-18-5 Applicability of article to justices and judges; contributions to retirement fund; granting of credit for military service. (a) Every justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and judge of the circuit court of the state holding office on September 18, 1973, shall have the right of election to come under this article. Each justice or judge holding office on September 18, 1973, shall have the right, within three years from September 18, 1973, to file with the clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama, an instrument in writing electing to come under this article. Each justice or judge of such courts elected or appointed to office after September 18, 1973, shall come under this article as a matter of law. After September 18, 1973, each justice and each judge who has elected to come under this article as provided by this section or who comes under this article by operation of law shall contribute to the Judicial...
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12-18-8
Section 12-18-8 Transfer into Judicial Retirement Fund of contributions made to Employees' Retirement System of Alabama and receipt of credit for prior service under Employees' Retirement System, etc., upon payment of contribution for prior years of service; refund of contributions to Judicial Retirement Fund upon termination of service prior to eligibility for retirement benefits under article. (a) Any justice or judge holding office as a member of the Supreme Court, a court of appeals or of a circuit court on September 18, 1973, who has paid contributions into the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, shall be entitled to have such contributions transferred from the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama into the Judicial Retirement Fund and to receive credit for the time of service he had acquired under the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama as time of service in the judicial position which he holds on September 18, 1973, regardless of whether or not such time of service...
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12-18-8.1
Section 12-18-8.1 Time of service as full-time state prosecutor, etc., may be credited as time in judicial position with Judicial Retirement System. Any justice of the Supreme Court or judge of one of the courts of appeals or any circuit court judge holding office on or before June 1,1976, who has time of service as a full-time state prosecutor or assistant state prosecutor in any circuit of the state, or who had time of service as an attorney for the State Milk Control Board, shall be entitled to have such time of service, regardless of whether or not such time of service was continuous, treated as time of service in the judicial position he holds on or before June 1, 1976, with the Judicial Retirement System; provided, however, that such time of service does not exceed five years; provided also that such justice or judge shall pay into the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama a sum equal to six percent of his then annual salary for each year of such service that he elects to count...
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12-18-40
Section 12-18-40 Retirement at age 60; computation; cost-of-living; prior service. On or after July 30, 1979, any person assuming office for the first time as a justice of the Supreme Court, judge of a court of appeals or a circuit judge, shall receive and be entitled to all retirement benefits prescribed in Title 12, Chapter 18, Articles 1 and 2, except as follows: (1) The provisions of subdivisions (3) and (5) of both subsections (a) and (b) of Section 12-18-6, to the contrary notwithstanding, except for disability, no such justice or judge shall be eligible to receive judicial service retirement pay prior to attaining 60 years of age. (2) The retirement pay or benefit of each such justice or judge shall be based and computed pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-18-10, at the percentage rate therein prescribed of his final salary received from the state at the time of retirement. Retired justices and judges coming under this article shall be entitled to receive cost-of-living...
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12-18-11
Section 12-18-11 Crediting to circuit court judges toward retirement of prior service for which entitled to credit toward supernumerary status in position other than as circuit judge. Any judge of a circuit court holding office on September 18, 1973 who is entitled to credit for prior service toward earning supernumerary status in a position other than as a circuit judge shall be entitled to have all such service credited toward retirement status under this article, provided he does so within three years from September 18, 1973, by notifying the Supreme Court in writing of the service for which he is at that time entitled to credit toward obtaining supernumerary status and for which he desires credit toward retirement under the Judicial Retirement Fund provided by this article. Upon receipt of such notice the Supreme Court shall make a judicial determination of the amount of such credit to which such judge is entitled and shall notify the board of control of the State Employees'...
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12-18-51
Section 12-18-51 Right of election of judges of county courts or full-time municipal court judges entitled to receive commissions as district judges to come under provisions of Article 1 of chapter; filing of notice of election with Clerk of Supreme Court, Secretary-Treasurer of Judicial Retirement Fund and governing body of county or municipality; applicability of provisions of Article 1 of chapter to district court judges elected or appointed to office after October 10, 1975. (a) Each judge of a county court or full-time municipal court judge entitled to receive a commission as a district judge pursuant to the Constitution shall have a right to elect to come under the provisions of Article 1 of this chapter in accord with the provisions of this article, but a full-time municipal court judge shall not be entitled to credit to determine eligibility for retirement under Section 12-18-55 for any service prior to such election. (b) Such election shall be made by written notice filed...
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12-18-10
Section 12-18-10 Retirement and disability benefits of justices of Supreme Court, judges of courts of appeals and judges of circuit courts; payment of benefits to spouses upon death of justices or judges; call to active duty status of retired justices or judges; powers, duties, compensation, etc., of retired justices or judges on active duty status; transfer of justices or judges from active to inactive status, etc. (a) The retirement benefit payable to a justice of the Supreme Court or judge of one of the courts of appeals retiring pursuant to subdivision (2), (3), (4) or (5) of subsection (a) of Section 12-18-6 shall be 75 percent of the salary prescribed by law for the position from which he retires, payable monthly for the rest of his life. Such benefit shall continue to be 75 percent of his salary prescribed by law for such position and shall change in amount as such salary is hereafter increased or decreased by law and shall not be subject to writs of attachment or garnishment....
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12-18-87
Section 12-18-87 Benefits. (a) Judges' retirement benefits. - The annual retirement benefit payable to a probate judge retiring pursuant to subdivisions (2), (3), (4), and (5) of Section 12-18-84 shall be 75 percent of the base sum or salary upon which such judge is paying the percentage as provided in subsection (a) or subsection (b) of Section 12-18-82 immediately prior to retirement. Such retirement benefit shall be payable monthly from the State Treasury for the life of the beneficiary. (b) Spouses' benefits. - After the death of any probate judge who has held office for a minimum of five years, his or her spouse shall receive a yearly benefit from the State Treasury equivalent to the greater of $480.00 per year, multiplied by the number of years of service, not to exceed 10 years, or three percent of the base sum or salary upon which such probate judge was paying the percentage as provided in subsection (a) or subsection (b) of Section 12-18-82 immediately prior to retirement,...
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12-18-133
Section 12-18-133 Purchase of additional credit. Any justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, circuit judge, or district judge who has 24 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama may elect to purchase credit in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama for up to one additional year. Any justice or judge eligible to purchase such credit shall be awarded such credit provided that the justice or judge shall pay into the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama a sum of money which is equal to the annual contribution of both the justice or judge and the annual contribution of the state into the fund at the time of election to purchase the credit multiplied by each year or fraction thereof of service credit claimed. The election and payment shall be made to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, administrator of the Judicial Retirement Fund. (Act 98-295, p. 481, ยง4.)...
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12-18-113
Section 12-18-113 Transfer of contributions and creditable service - Probate judge's adjusted benefit formulas; spouse's benefits. In the event a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, who is a probate judge, or a surviving spouse thereof, must employ and count creditable service transferred under this article to qualify for retirement and/or benefits under the fund, the benefits or allowances payable to such member or spouse shall be calculated as follows, and shall be in lieu of any and all other rights, benefits and allowances, except Social Security payments: (1) The annual service allowance payable to a retiring probate judge shall be an annual amount equal to the sum of: a. The amount which results when 75 percent of the base sum or salary upon which such judge was contributing, as provided in Section 12-18-82, immediately prior to retirement is multiplied by the ratio created when the member's number of years of creditable service, excluding transferred credit, is compared to...
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