Alabama § 36-27-14 - Granting of Credit for Service as Officer or Subordinate Officer of Legislature; Maximum Credit; Payment of Employee’s Contribution; Applicability of Provisions of Section.

§ 36-27-14. Granting of Credit for Service as Officer or Subordinate Officer of Legislature; Maximum Credit; Payment of Employee’s Contribution; Applicability of Provisions of Section.

(a) Any person who, as of September 18, 1973, is a regular employee of the State of Alabama and is covered or eligible to be covered under the state Employees’ Retirement System and who is also an officer or subordinate officer of the Legislature of Alabama shall have credited to him one half year of creditable service for each legislative session in which such person was employed prior to becoming a regular employee of the State of Alabama, not to exceed eight years in the aggregate; provided, that such person shall pay into the retirement system the employee’s part of the cost or contribution based on the salary such person received as a legislative employee, such cost or contribution to be calculated at the percentage or rate in effect at the time on September 18, 1973.

(b) This section shall apply only to those persons at the time of their retirement who have 20 or more creditable years of service under the state retirement system.

(c) The employee’s contribution for prior years of service shall be paid by such employee within 90 days after September 18, 1973.