2013 Code of Alabama
Title 16 - EDUCATION.
Chapter 25 - TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
Section 16-25-24 - False statements; correction of errors.


AL Code § 16-25-24 (2013) What's This?
Section 16-25-24False statements; correction of errors.

(a) Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

(b) Should any change or error in the records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the Board of Control shall correct such error and as far as practicable shall adjust the payment in such a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid.

(Acts 1939, No. 419, p. 559, § 10; Code 1940, T. 52, §371.)

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