§16-25-10.7. Officers and employees of community action agencies; contributions; creditable service.

(a) Any governing body of any community action agency organized pursuant to Sections 11-80-4.1, 11-96-3 or 11-96-6 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 any community action agency eligible under subsection (a) of this section and having made an election by resolution as provided therein, 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 a community action agency the agency shall pay the employer cost calculated as a percentage of the salaries of those employees to be contributed as employer cost 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 member's contributions are made to the Teachers' Retirement System.

(c) The governing body of a community action agency eligible under subsection (a) of this section 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 agency previous to the effective date of said agency'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 agency on the effective date of said agency's election to be covered under the Teachers' Retirement System, and provided further that the said resolution also states that the agency 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.

(Acts 1990, No. 90-292, p. 394, §§1-3.)