Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 21 - Law Enforcement Officers Generally
- Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 36-21-1 Payment of fees and costs of defense of state law enforcement officers in certain cases
Any law enforcement officer of the state of Alabama who is sued or prosecuted for any act committed or done within the line and scope...
- Section 36-21-2 Subsistence allowance for certain law enforcement officers
(a)(1) Any law enforcement officer of the State of Alabama who is employed by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, Department of Conservation and Natural...
- Section 36-21-3 Lump-sum payments for service of state, etc., law enforcement officers, etc
(a) Each law enforcement officer and all police communications officers employed by the State of Alabama, including law enforcement officers of the Department of Industrial...
- Section 36-21-4 Overtime - Compensation generally
Each state law enforcement officer in the service of the state who is assigned to duty for more than 40 hours during the calendar week...
- Section 36-21-4.1 Overtime - Pay or compensation leave for nonelected law enforcement officer in service of county
(a) Any nonelected law enforcement officer in the service of a county who has worked a number of hours in excess of the established and...
- Section 36-21-5 Overtime - Statement of election of method of compensation
Any such law enforcement officer who works overtime during any calendar month shall on the last day of such month file in writing a statement...
- Section 36-21-6 Overtime - "State law enforcement officer" defined
A "state law enforcement officer" shall be defined as a full-time state employee who has the power of a peace officer and who is sworn...
- Section 36-21-7 Reimbursement by new employer for training expenses
In those instances in which a law enforcement officer, certified corrections officer, fire protection personnel, or firefighter of any municipality, county, sheriff's department, fire district,...
- Section 36-21-8 Badge and pistol as part of retirement benefits for certain law enforcement officers and investigators
Any person who, at the time of retirement, is in good standing and employed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Alcoholic Beverage...
- Section 36-21-8.1 Badge provided for officer killed or disabled in line of duty
(a) Any peace officer or law enforcement officer as defined by subsection (4) of Section 36-21-40, who is killed in the line of duty shall...
- Section 36-21-8.2 Badge and pistol as part of retirement benefits for Department of Public Safety law enforcement officers
Any individual employed by the Alabama Department of Public Safety as a law enforcement officer for a period of ten years or more who left...
- Section 36-21-8.3 Receipt of badge or pistol upon retirement - Police officers in Class 4 municipalities
(a) This section shall apply only to Class 4 municipalities. (b) Any Class 4 municipality may establish, by resolution, a procedure which provides that any...
- Section 36-21-9 Eligibility of honorably retired law enforcement officers to carry handguns; authorization card; revocation of authorization; penalty for refusal to comply with revocation
(a) Any honorably retired law enforcement officer whose retirement was not based on any pending disciplinary or legal action shall be eligible to obtain without...
- Section 36-21-10 Minimum starting salary for county law enforcement officers; enforcement; definition
(a) All law enforcement officers employed by any county of this state who are employed as a full-time law enforcement officer shall make at least...
- Section 36-21-11 Preference given to police officers and fire fighters suffering from diseases without known cure in admission to research programs
Whereas the sworn, full-time, regular employed state, county and municipal police officers of this state are required by law and policy to enforce the penal...
- Section 36-21-12 State troopers may retire upon completion of 25 years service
Any person who is a state trooper, employed with the Department of Public Safety, may, regardless of age, exercise an option to retire upon completion...
- Section 36-21-13 Compensation for injury to police officer utilized by state department or agency; injury review boards
(a) For purposes of this section, a "state police officer" is a full-time law enforcement officer of any state agency, department, board, commission, or institution,...
- Section 36-21-14 Communications by emergency responders with peer support members
(a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CERTIFIED PEER SUPPORT MEMBER. A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic,...
- Article 2 Employment of Municipal Police, etc., Within State by Governor During Riots, etc.
- Section 36-21-20 Governor authorized to call out municipal police to preserve peace, etc., within state in case of riots, etc
Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor that there has occurred or there is reasonable cause to apprehend at...
- Section 36-21-21 Duty of municipal authorities when called upon to furnish police officers by Governor; powers, duties, privileges, etc., of municipal police officers when called out by Governor
The municipal authorities of any municipality, when called upon to furnish such policemen and police officers, shall comply with the demands of the Governor in...
- Section 36-21-22 Compensation of municipal police when called into service of state by Governor
Such police, patrolmen and officers drawn into the service of the state at the call of the Governor shall be paid their reasonable expenses incurred...
- Section 36-21-23 Employment and compensation of additional men by Governor
If, in the opinion of the Governor, the police force that may be available and may be obtained under Section 36-21-20 is or will be...
- Section 36-21-24 Command of police officers, etc., called into service of state
All police officers and individuals drawn into the service of the state by the Governor under the authority of this article shall take orders from...
- Article 3 Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.
- Section 36-21-40 Definitions
As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary: (1) FUND....
- Section 36-21-41 Created; composition; qualifications, designation, and terms of office of members; adoption of bylaws
The Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission is hereby created. The commission shall consist of seven members, each of whom must be a qualified...
- Section 36-21-42 Officers and employees
The commission shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members. The commission may employ an executive secretary and such clerical assistants as...
- Section 36-21-43 Meetings; official seal
(a) The commission shall meet in regular session quarterly at a time and place in the State of Alabama to be designated in its bylaws....
- Section 36-21-44 Compensation and reimbursement for expenses of members
Members of the commission shall receive no compensation but may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary travel and other expenses incurred in the performance...
- Section 36-21-45 Functions and duties generally
The commission shall have the following functions and duties together with all powers necessary or convenient for the performance thereof: (1) To study, obtain data,...
- Section 36-21-46 Standards for applicants and appointees for employment as law enforcement officers
(a) The standards provided in this subsection shall apply to applicants and appointees as law enforcement officers. No city, town, county, sheriff, constable, or other...
- Section 36-21-47 Peace Officers' Standards and Training Fund
There is hereby established and created in the Treasury of the state the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Fund. The commission may accept grants...
- Section 36-21-47.1 Remittance of court costs to fund
(a) The fees and costs shall be collected by the court official who collects other costs and fees. The moneys collected according to this section...
- Section 36-21-48 Appropriations and grants to commission by municipalities and counties and disposition thereof
The governing body of each incorporated city or town and the governing body of each county of the state is hereby authorized to appropriate any...
- Section 36-21-49 Agreements and cooperation by law enforcement agencies
Each law enforcement agency in the state is hereby authorized to make agreements and arrangements for cooperation and mutual assistance in law enforcement work with...
- Section 36-21-50 Penalty for violation of provisions of article or standards, rules, etc., promulgated thereunder
Any person who shall appoint any applicant who, to the knowledge of the appointor, fails to meet the qualifications as a law enforcement officer provided...
- Section 36-21-51 Municipal chiefs of police or law enforcement officers to complete annual continuing education courses
(a) Each chief of police of any municipality in this state shall annually complete 20 hours of executive level continuing education courses approved by the...
- Section 36-21-52 Revocation of certification or authority of law enforcement officer upon conviction of felony
(a) The certification or authority of any law enforcement officer certified by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission or otherwise exempt from the...
- Article 4 Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund.
- Section 36-21-60 Definitions
When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALABAMA SHERIFF'S...
- Section 36-21-61 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Creation; composition; qualifications, appointment and terms of office of members; vacancies
There is created a board to be known as the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund. The board shall...
- Section 36-21-62 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Compensation of members
All board members shall be paid $30.00 per day and mileage for attendance of board meetings. Mileage and per diem shall be the same as...
- Section 36-21-63 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Quorum; officers generally; executive director; agents and employees; bonding of members and employees handling funds of board
A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum sufficient for the transaction of any business, and no business shall be transacted...
- Section 36-21-64 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Powers and duties generally
The board shall have the following powers in carrying out its responsibilities under this article: (1) To collect all moneys provided in this article to...
- Section 36-21-65 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Maintenance of records, etc
It shall be the duty of the board to keep permanent records of its membership, receipts, disbursements, investments and all of its other affairs under...
- Section 36-21-66 Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund created; purpose and official designation; composition generally; investment, expenditure, etc., of moneys therein
A special fund is established and placed under the management of the board for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under this...
- Section 36-21-67 Imposition of additional court costs in certain criminal and quasi-criminal proceedings; remittance of proceeds to Executive Director of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund
In all criminal and quasi-criminal proceedings for the violation of laws of the state or municipal ordinances including violations of the state conservation laws or...
- Section 36-21-68 Eligibility for membership; application and fees
Nothing in this article shall be construed as requiring that any member of the fund become a member of the association or the order, or...
- Section 36-21-69 Receipt of service credit for military service, etc
Any peace officer who becomes a member of the fund and who left his work as a peace officer and entered directly into the armed...
- Section 36-21-70 Retirement annuity
Any member shall, at any time after reaching the age of 52 and completion of at least 15 years' qualified service or the completion of...
- Section 36-21-71 Disability benefits
Any member who becomes totally or permanently disabled as a result of a heart attack or any injury received in the line of duty as...
- Section 36-21-72 Death benefits
Each member shall be issued a certificate by the board in which the board shall agree to pay to a beneficiary to be designated by...
- Section 36-21-73 Appointment of actuary; action upon report; liability for deficiency in payments
The board shall have appointed and employed an actuary to make an actuarial valuation every three years or earlier, if deemed required, of the receipts...
- Section 36-21-74 Refunds of members' fees
Any member shall be entitled at any time to withdraw from the fund and, upon application for such withdrawal on forms to be supplied by...
- Section 36-21-75 Semiannual reports of executive director; annual audits of acts and affairs of board
(a) The executive director shall make semiannual reports to the board showing the total amount of money on hand at the time of such report,...
- Section 36-21-76 Rights, annuities and benefits subject to change by Legislature; no vested rights in annuities, benefits, etc.; when determination of years of qualified service conclusive; reinstatement of benefits of certain members; adjustment of amount of benefits
All rights, annuities and benefits provided herein shall be subject to future change by the Legislature of the state, and subject to future changes or...
- Section 36-21-77 Benefits, annuities, etc., not subject to attachment, garnishment, assignment, etc.; annuities and benefits to be paid directly to member or beneficiary
None of the moneys referred to in this article or any benefit or annuity payable under this article shall be subject to attachment, garnishment or...
- Section 36-21-78 Annuities and benefits provided by chapter cumulative; participation by peace officers in other plans, systems, etc., not to bar participation in fund
The annuities and benefits provided for in this article shall not repeal or be considered to be in substitution for any other annuity or benefit...
- Article 5 Police Officer's and Firefighter's Survivors Educational Assistance.
- Article 6 Police Officers of Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians.
- Section 36-21-120 Definitions
For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) POLICE OFFICER. A law enforcement officer appointed by a tribe...
- Section 36-21-121 Legislative intent
It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the employment of police officers by a reservation in order to protect reservation boundaries from...
- Section 36-21-122 Employment of police officers
The tribal council of a tribe may appoint and employ one or more suitable persons to act as police officers to protect the reservation of...
- Section 36-21-123 Powers generally
Any police officer appointed by a tribe pursuant to Section 36-21-122 shall be charged with all the powers of state police officers including, but not...
- Section 36-21-124 Limitation of powers
The powers of police officers appointed by a tribe pursuant to this article may be exercised only upon the premises of the reservation of the...
- Article 7
- Article 8 Volunteer Firefighter or Emergency Medical Service Provider Job Protection.
- Article 9 Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund.
- Section 36-21-180 Definitions
When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The...
- Section 36-21-181 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Creation; composition
(a) There is created a board to be known as the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund. The board shall...
- Section 36-21-182 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Compensation
All board members shall be paid thirty dollars ($30) per day and mileage and per diem for attendance of board meetings. When a board member...
- Section 36-21-183 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Powers and duties
The board shall have the following powers in carrying out its responsibilities: (1) To collect all moneys provided in this article to be collected by...
- Section 36-21-184 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Maintenance of records
The board shall keep permanent records of its membership, receipts, disbursements, and all of its other affairs under this article. Such records of the members...
- Section 36-21-185 Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund
(a) A special fund is established for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for members of the fund. The fund shall be...
- Section 36-21-186 Funding
(a) In order to fund this article, a minimum annual fee of two dollars ($2) may be voluntarily contributed from either or both the income...
- Section 36-21-187 Participation in fund; fees
(a) Participation in the fund established by this article is entirely elective on the part of a firefighter, and the benefits provided herein are in...
- Section 36-21-188 Prior service credit
Any firefighter who becomes a member of the fund and who thereafter leaves work as a firefighter and is drafted or enters directly into the...
- Section 36-21-189 Retirement annuity
(a) Any member, at any time after reaching the age of 62 and completion of at least 25 years' qualified service, shall be entitled to...
- Section 36-21-190 Disability benefits
(a) Any member who becomes totally or permanently disabled as a result of a heart attack or any injury received in the line of duty...
- Section 36-21-191 Death benefits
(a) Each member shall be issued a certificate by the board in which the board agrees to pay to a beneficiary designated by such member,...
- Section 36-21-192 Appointment of actuary; action upon report; liability for deficiency in payments
(a) The board shall appoint and employ an actuary to make an actuarial valuation every three years or earlier, if deemed required, of the receipts...
- Section 36-21-193 Withdrawal from fund
Any member shall be entitled at any time to withdraw from the fund and, upon application for such withdrawal on forms supplied by the board...
- Section 36-21-194 Semiannual report of executive director; annual audit
(a) The executive director shall make semiannual reports to the board showing the total amount of money on hand at the time of such report,...
- Section 36-21-195 Effect of modifications; coverage for retired members upon return to active service
(a) All rights, annuities, and benefits provided herein shall be subject to future change by the Legislature, and subject to future changes or revisions as...
- Section 36-21-196 Assignment, garnishment attachment, etc., of benefits; payment of annuities and benefits
None of the moneys referred to in this article or any benefit or annuity payable under this article shall be assignable nor subject to attachment,...
- Section 36-21-197 Application
(a) The annuities and benefits provided for in this article shall not repeal or be considered to be in substitution for any other annuity or...
Last modified: May 3, 2021