§ 36-27-21 — Increase in Maximum Retirement Allowance of Certain State, Etc., Employees - 1975 15 Percent Increase

Alabama § 36-27-21

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 36: Public Officers and Employees
• Ch. 27: State Employees’ Retirement System
• Art. 1: General Provisions

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(a) Any pensioner and any retired member and any member who retires after June 1, 1975, under the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama whose maximum retirement allowance is based on the minimum guarantee and whose maximum retirement allowance, after taking into account the reduction of certain retirement allowances by the repeal of Act No. 1070 of the 1973 Acts, is not increased in the amount of 15 percent by the 15 percent formula increase provided by the 1975 amendment of Section 36-27-16, is hereby provided, on or after October 1, 1975, an increase in his maximum retirement allowance which shall be sufficient to equal an increase in his maximum retirement allowance of 15 percent.
(b) The funds necessary to pay the increase in retirement allowances described in subsection (a) of this section to employees who participated in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama under the provisions of Section 36-27-6 shall be provided by the employer participating under said Section 36-27-6.
(c) There is hereby appropriated annually from the funds from which salaries are paid the amounts sufficient to carry out the provisions of this section.
In the case of those departments supported wholly by transfers from other state funds, there is hereby appropriated from the supportive funds such additional amounts as may be necessary to pay the employer contribution of each department so supported in the same proportion as the other state funds contribute to the support and maintenance of such department.

Legislative History

(Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 135, p. 359, §§3, 5.)