Section 36-27-9 Payment of Member’s and Employer’s Contributions for County Engineers by State Department of Transportation.

Membership payments of county engineers eligible for participation as members of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama under Section 36-27-4, to the extent of the State Department of Transportation contribution to the county for the engineer’s salary, shall be made as follows: (1) The State Director of Transportation shall cause to be deducted from the state’s payment to the county for the engineer’s salary the member’s contribution and employer’s contribution at the rates provided by law and remit the contribution to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama in the same manner as for department employees. The State Department of Transportation shall further contribute to the employing county an amount equal to the employer’s contribution for the county engineer retirement from the same funds from which state’s contribution for salary occurred, said contribution to be in addition to all other contributions authorized by Section 11-6-4 or any other law. (2) For service rendered from October 1, 1945, to September 30, 1965, by the county engineer to the State Department of Transportation or as county engineer, the county engineer shall pay to the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama the contributions he would have paid had he been eligible for participation to the extent of the State Department of Transportation contribution to his salary plus regular interest under rules and regulations as may be required by the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama. (3) Immediately after September 30, 1965, the Director of Transportation shall cause to be paid to the Employees’ Retirement System from the same funds from which the state contribution to salary occurred the total amounts paid by all such county engineers for such prior membership service as county engineer, multiplied by 1.01 for the employing county’s participation for service rendered from October 1, 1945, to September 30, 1965, as a further contribution to the employing county, said contribution to be in addition to all other contributions authorized by Section 11-6-4 or any other law.