Alabama § 31-9-62 - Salary Supplement; Allocation of Federal Funds.

§ 31-9-62. Salary Supplement; Allocation of Federal Funds.

(a) For the purposes of this section, a certified local emergency management director is a local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local emergency management director and is so designated by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

(b)(1) Each state-recognized local emergency management organization that employs and retains a certified local emergency management director shall receive an annual salary supplement from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency to constitute 35 percent of the certified local emergency management director’s total salary. In no case shall the salary supplement paid as provided herein be more than seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000) per county.

(2) The salary supplement shall be paid quarterly as a reimbursement for the salary paid to the local director in the prior three months, under rules and procedures established by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. A salary supplement shall not be paid to certified local emergency management directors who receive that status on or after October 1, 2023, until the beginning of the fiscal year following the completion of the requirements and designation by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

(c) Beginning on October 1, 2007, and each year thereafter, the department shall set aside additional federal funds in an amount equal to 25 percent of the total increase in such funds above those amounts received in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007. These funds shall be divided equally among the state-recognized local emergency management organizations that employ and retain a certified local emergency management director.

(d) There is annually appropriated from the state General Fund to the Alabama Emergency Management agency such funds as are necessary to meet the requirements of this section.

(e) No monies provided for in this article may be expended for any purpose unless they have been appropriated by the Legislature and allocated pursuant to this article. Any funds appropriated shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 41-4-80) of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations act or other appropriations act.