(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 and in whatever manner paid, become eligible to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, subject to all rules, regulations and conditions thereof.
(b) The governing body of the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center, having made an election through a resolution as provided in subsection (a), its employees and executive officers may participate in and be entitled to all benefits of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama, provided that where contributions are made from salaries paid by the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center, the center shall pay the employer costs calculated as a percentage of the salaries of those employees, to be contributed as employer costs in accordance with subdivisions (3) and (5) of Section 16-25-21. Such amounts shall be paid monthly and at the same time as the members' contributions are made to the Teachers' Retirement System.
(c) The governing body of the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center may provide in its resolution to the Teachers' Retirement System's Board of Control that all service rendered, by an eligible employee or executive officer, to said center, previous to the effective date of said center's election to come under the Teachers' Retirement System, shall be creditable service to such employee or executive officer; provided that any such provision shall apply only to those employees and officers who were in the active service of the center on the effective date of said association's election to be covered under the Teachers' Retirement System; and provided further that the said resolution also states that the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center, shall assume and pay, as required, all costs necessary to fund the crediting of such previous service, such costs to be determined by the actuary employed by the Teachers' Retirement System's Board of Control.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 25 - Teachers' Retirement System.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 16-25-1 - Definitions.
Section 16-25-3.1 - Purchase of Credit for Service by Members Age 61 or Older at Time of Employment.
Section 16-25-4 - Transfer of Membership From the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama Generally.
Section 16-25-6 - Employees of Agricultural Experiment Station of Auburn University.
Section 16-25-7 - Certain Persons Employed by Alabama High School Athletic Association.
Section 16-25-8 - School Lunchroom Managers and Assistants.
Section 16-25-9 - Certain School Bus Drivers, Mechanics and Maintenance Workers - Generally.
Section 16-25-10.1 - Executive Officers and Employees of Alabama Association of School Boards.
Section 16-25-10.3 - Executive Officers and Employees of Alabama Vocational Association.
Section 16-25-10.11 - Officers and Employees of School Superintendents of Alabama.
Section 16-25-11 - Creditable Service.
Section 16-25-11.1 - Conversion of Unused Sick Leave Into Creditable Service in Retirement System.
Section 16-25-11.5 - Purchase of Credit for Employment in Support Personnel Position.
Section 16-25-11.11 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Section 16-25-11.12 - Purchase of Service Credit for Time on Maternity Leave.
Section 16-25-11.14 - Purchase of Credit for Service Rendered to Authorized Employer.
Section 16-25-11.17 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With Department of Industrial Relations.
Section 16-25-11.18 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With United States Civil Service.
Section 16-25-11.19 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service With Federal Bureau of Mines.
Section 16-25-12 - Prior Service Credit for Military Service During World War I.
Section 16-25-13.2 - Purchase of Credit for Prior Service at Walker College.
Section 16-25-14 - Retirement of Members; Benefits Generally.
Section 16-25-15 - Increase in Benefits - Ten Percent.
Section 16-25-16 - Increase in Benefits - Additional Five Percent.
Section 16-25-17 - Increase in Benefits - Cost-of- Living Increase for Certain Persons.
Section 16-25-18 - Redetermination of Allowances of Certain Retired Members.
Section 16-25-19 - Administration.
Section 16-25-20 - Management of Funds.
Section 16-25-21 - Method of Financing.
Section 16-25-23 - Exemptions From Execution; Recovery Actions.
Section 16-25-24 - False Statements; Correction of Errors.
Section 16-25-25 - Limitation on Membership.
Section 16-25-26 - Performance of Duties by Retired Persons; Service in Elected Public Office.
Section 16-25-26.1 - Election by University President to Resume Participation.
Section 16-25-33 - Term Life Insurance Fund; Payment of Benefits; Funding.