(a) Employees of the Birmingham Emergency Management Agency/District, or for any other entity having similar jurisdiction over the emergency management countywide, shall be deemed constructive employees of the city during such time in the service of the agency, whether past, present, or future. The retrospective and prospective term of the system shall be applied retrospectively to constructive employees as though the district were actually a subsidiary department of the city at all times past, present, or future. For the purpose of the application of the system, constructive employees shall be deemed as employees in the classified service of the city during the period or periods, whether past, present, or future, as the case may be, or may have been subject to the civil service system as that to which employees of the city may be or may have been contemporaneously subject. The employees of the agency shall be governed accordingly by the retrospective and prospective provisions of the system.
(b) It shall be the duty of the emergency management agency/district, as an independent agency and not as a subsidiary or department of the city, to pay into the fund deductions from the salaries and wages of its employees who are members of the system. It shall be the further duty of the district, as an independent agency, to make matching contributions to the fund from its own funds in respect to its employees who are members, in all respects as it is made the duty of the city to make matching contributions in respect to its employees who are members of the system. It shall further be the duty of the district, as an independent agency, to fully cooperate with the board of managers, the finance director of the city, and the custodian in the administration of the system, to make available to them all records and information pertaining to employees of the district as they may request for the purpose of the administration of the system.
Last modified: May 3, 2021