Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees
§ 38-842 - Definitions

38-842. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Accidental disability" means a physical or mental condition that the local board finds totally and permanently prevents an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's job classification and that was incurred in the performance of the employee's duty.
2. " Accumulated contributions" means, for each member, the sum of the amount of the member's aggregate contributions made to the fund and the amount, if any, attributable to the employee's contributions before the member's effective date under another public retirement system, other than the federal social security act, and transferred to the fund minus the benefits paid to or on behalf of the member.
3. " Actuarial equivalent" means equality in present value of the aggregate amounts expected to be received under two different forms of payment, based on mortality and interest assumptions adopted by the board.
4. " Alternate payee" means the spouse or former spouse of a participant as designated in a domestic relations order.
5. " Alternate payee's portion" means benefits that are payable to an alternate payee pursuant to a plan approved domestic relations order.
6. " Annuitant" means a person who is receiving a benefit pursuant to section 38-846.01.
7. " Average monthly benefit compensation" means the result obtained by dividing the total compensation paid to an employee during a considered period by the number of months, including fractional months, in which such compensation was received. For an employee who becomes a member of the system:
(a) Before January 1, 2012, the considered period shall be the three consecutive years within the last twenty completed years of credited service that yield the highest average. In the computation under this subdivision, a period of nonpaid or partially paid industrial leave shall be considered based on the compensation the employee would have received in the employee's job classification if the employee was not on industrial leave.
(b) On or after January 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2017, the considered period is the five consecutive years within the last twenty completed years of credited service that yield the highest average. In the computation under this subdivision, a period of nonpaid or partially paid industrial leave shall be considered based on the compensation the employee would have received in the employee's job classification if the employee was not on industrial leave.
(c) On or after July 1, 2017, the considered period is the five consecutive years within the last fifteen completed years of credited service that yield the highest average. In the computation under this subdivision, a period of nonpaid or partially paid industrial leave shall be considered based on the compensation the employee would have received in the employee's job classification if the employee was not on industrial leave.
8. " Board" means the board of trustees of the system, who are the persons appointed to invest and operate the fund.
9. " Catastrophic disability" means a physical and not a psychological condition that the local board determines prevents the employee from totally and permanently engaging in any gainful employment and that results from a physical injury incurred in the performance of the employee's duty.
10. " Certified peace officer" means a peace officer certified by the Arizona peace officer standards and training board.
11. " Claimant" means any member or beneficiary who files an application for benefits pursuant to this article.
12. " Compensation" means, for the purpose of computing retirement benefits, base salary, overtime pay, shift differential pay, military differential wage pay, compensatory time used by an employee in lieu of overtime not otherwise paid by an employer and holiday pay paid to an employee by the employer for the employee's performance of services in an eligible group on a regular monthly, semimonthly or biweekly payroll basis and longevity pay paid to an employee at least every six months for which contributions are made to the system pursuant to section 38-843, subsection D. Compensation does not include, for the purpose of computing retirement benefits, payment for unused sick leave, payment in lieu of vacation, payment for unused compensatory time or payment for any fringe benefits. In addition, compensation does not include, for the purpose of computing retirement benefits, payments made directly or indirectly by the employer to the employee for work performed for a third party on a contracted basis or any other type of agreement under which the third party pays or reimburses the employer for the work performed by the employee for that third party, except for third-party contracts between public agencies for law enforcement, criminal, traffic and crime suppression activities training or fire, wildfire, emergency medical or emergency management activities or where the employer supervises the employee's performance of law enforcement, criminal, traffic and crime suppression activities training or fire, wildfire, emergency medical or emergency management activities. For the purposes of this paragraph, " base salary" means the amount of compensation each employee is regularly paid for personal services rendered to an employer before the addition of any extra monies, including overtime pay, shift differential pay, holiday pay, longevity pay, fringe benefit pay and similar extra payments.
13. " Credited service" means the member's total period of service before the member's effective date of participation, plus those compensated periods of the member's service thereafter for which the member made contributions to the fund.
14. " Cure period" means the ninety-day period in which a participant or alternate payee may submit an amended domestic relations order and request a determination, calculated from the time the system issues a determination finding that a previously submitted domestic relations order did not qualify as a plan approved domestic relations order.
15. " Depository" means a bank in which all monies of the system are deposited and held and from which all expenditures for benefits, expenses and investments are disbursed.
16. " Determination" means a written document that indicates to a participant and alternate payee whether a domestic relations order qualifies as a plan approved domestic relations order.
17. " Determination period" means the ninety-day period in which the system must review a domestic relations order that is submitted by a participant or alternate payee to determine whether the domestic relations order qualifies as a plan approved domestic relations order, calculated from the time the system mails a notice of receipt to the participant and alternate payee.
18. " Direct rollover" means a payment by the system to an eligible retirement plan that is specified by the distributee.
19. " Distributee" means a member, a member's surviving spouse or a member's spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a plan approved domestic relations order.
20. " Domestic relations order" means an order of a court of this state that is made pursuant to the domestic relations laws of this state and that creates or recognizes the existence of an alternate payee's right to, or assigns to an alternate payee the right to, receive a portion of the benefits payable to a participant.
21. " Effective date of participation" means July 1, 1968, except with respect to employers and their covered employees whose contributions to the fund commence thereafter, the effective date of their participation in the system is as specified in the applicable joinder agreement.
22. " Effective date of vesting" means the date a member's rights to benefits vest pursuant to section 38-844.01.
23. " Eligible child" means an unmarried child of a deceased member or retired member who meets one of the following qualifications:
(a) Is under eighteen years of age.
(b) Is at least eighteen years of age and under twenty-three years of age only during any period that the child is a full-time student.
(c) Is under a disability that began before the child attained twenty-three years of age and remains a dependent of the surviving spouse or guardian.
24. " Eligible groups" means only the following who are regularly assigned to hazardous duty:
(a) Municipal police officers who are certified peace officers.
(b) Municipal firefighters.
(c) Paid full-time firefighters employed directly by a fire district organized pursuant to section 48-803 or 48-804 or a joint powers authority pursuant to section 48-805.01 with three or more full-time firefighters, but not including firefighters employed by a fire district pursuant to a contract with a corporation.
(d) State highway patrol officers who are certified peace officers.
(e) State firefighters.
(f) County sheriffs and deputies who are certified peace officers.
(g) Game and fish wardens who are certified peace officers.
(h) Police officers who are certified peace officers and firefighters of a nonprofit corporation operating a public airport pursuant to sections 28-8423 and 28-8424. A police officer shall be designated pursuant to section 28-8426 to aid and supplement state and local law enforcement agencies and a firefighter's sole duty shall be to perform firefighting services, including services required by federal regulations.
(i) Police officers who are certified peace officers and who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents.
(j) Police officers who are certified peace officers and who are appointed by a community college district governing board.
(k) State attorney general investigators who are certified peace officers.
(l) County attorney investigators who are certified peace officers.
(m) Police officers who are certified peace officers and who are employed by an Indian reservation police agency.
(n) Firefighters who are employed by an Indian reservation firefighting agency.
(o) Department of liquor licenses and control investigators who are certified peace officers.
(p) Arizona department of agriculture officers who are certified peace officers.
(q) Arizona state parks board rangers and managers who are certified peace officers.
(r) County park rangers who are certified peace officers.
(s) Game rangers who are certified peace officers and who are employed by an Indian reservation.
25. " Eligible retirement plan" means any of the following that accepts a distributee's eligible rollover distribution:
(a) An individual retirement account described in section 408(a) of the internal revenue code.
(b) An individual retirement annuity described in section 408(b) of the internal revenue code.
(c) An annuity plan described in section 403(a) of the internal revenue code.
(d) A qualified trust described in section 401(a) of the internal revenue code.
(e) An annuity contract described in section 403(b) of the internal revenue code.
(f) An eligible deferred compensation plan described in section 457(b) of the internal revenue code that is maintained by a state, a political subdivision of a state or any agency or instrumentality of a state or a political subdivision of a state and that agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into the eligible deferred compensation plan from this plan.
(g) A Roth individual retirement account that satisfies the requirements of section 408A of the internal revenue code.
(h) For distributions made after December 18, 2015, a simple retirement account as defined in section 408(p) of the internal revenue code.
26. " Eligible rollover distribution" means a payment to a distributee, but does not include any of the following:
(a) Any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments made not less frequently than annually for the life or life expectancy of the member or the joint lives or joint life expectancies of the member and the member's beneficiary or for a specified period of ten years or more.
(b) Any distribution to the extent the distribution is required under section 401(a)(9) of the internal revenue code.
(c) The portion of any distribution that may not be included in gross income.
(d) Any distribution made to satisfy the requirements of section 415 of the internal revenue code.
(e) Hardship distributions.
(f) Similar items designated by the commissioner of the United States internal revenue service in revenue rulings, notices and other guidance published in the internal revenue bulletin.
27. " Employee" means any person who is employed by a participating employer and who is a member of an eligible group but does not include any persons compensated on a contractual or fee basis. If an eligible group requires certified peace officer status or firefighter certification and at the option of the local board, employee may include a person who is training to become a certified peace officer or firefighter.
28. " Employers" means:
(a) Cities contributing to the fire fighters' relief and pension fund as provided in sections 9-951 through 9-973 or statutes amended thereby and antecedent thereto, as of June 30, 1968 on behalf of their full-time paid firefighters.
(b) Cities contributing under the state police pension laws as provided in sections 9-911 through 9-934 or statutes amended thereby and antecedent thereto, as of June 30, 1968 on behalf of their municipal policemen.
(c) The state highway patrol covered under the state highway patrol retirement system.
(d) The state, or any political subdivision of this state, including towns, cities, fire districts, joint powers authorities, counties and nonprofit corporations operating public airports pursuant to sections 28-8423 and 28-8424, that has elected to participate in the system on behalf of an eligible group of public safety personnel pursuant to a joinder agreement entered into after July 1, 1968.
(e) Indian tribes that have elected to participate in the system on behalf of an eligible group of public safety personnel pursuant to a joinder agreement entered into after July 1, 1968.
29. " Fund" means the public safety personnel retirement fund, which is the fund established to receive and invest contributions accumulated under the system and from which benefits are paid.
30. " Local board" means the retirement board of the employer, who are the persons appointed to administer the system as it applies to their members in the system.
31. " Member" :
(a) Means any full-time employee who meets all of the following qualifications:
(i) Who is either a paid municipal police officer, a paid firefighter, a law enforcement officer who is employed by this state including the director thereof, a state firefighter who is primarily assigned to firefighting duties, a firefighter or police officer of a nonprofit corporation operating a public airport pursuant to sections 28-8423 and 28-8424, all ranks designated by the Arizona law enforcement merit system council, a state attorney general investigator who is a certified peace officer, a county attorney investigator who is a certified peace officer, a department of liquor licenses and control investigator who is a certified peace officer, an Arizona department of agriculture officer who is a certified peace officer, an Arizona state parks board ranger or manager who is a certified peace officer, a county park ranger who is a certified peace officer, a person who is a certified peace officer and who is employed by an Indian reservation police agency, a game ranger who is a certified peace officer and who is employed by an Indian reservation, a firefighter who is employed by an Indian reservation firefighting agency or an employee included in a group designated as eligible employees under a joinder agreement entered into by their employer after July 1, 1968 and who is or was regularly assigned to hazardous duty or, beginning retroactively to January 1, 2009, who is a police chief or a fire chief.
(ii) Who, on or after the employee's effective date of participation, is receiving compensation for personal services rendered to an employer or would be receiving compensation except for an authorized leave of absence.
(iii) Whose customary employment is at least forty hours per week or, for those employees who customarily work fluctuating workweeks, whose customary employment averages at least forty hours per week.
(iv) Who is engaged to work for more than six months in a calendar year.
(v) Who, if economic conditions exist, is required to take furlough days or reduce the hours of the employee's normal workweek below forty hours but not less than thirty hours per pay cycle, and maintain the employee's active member status within the system as long as the hour change does not extend beyond twelve consecutive months.
(vi) Who has not attained age sixty-five before the employee's effective date of participation or who was over age sixty-five with twenty-five years or more of service prior to the employee's effective date of participation.
(b) Does not include an employee who is hired on or after July 1, 2017, who makes the irrevocable election to participate solely in the public safety personnel defined contribution retirement plan established pursuant to article 4.1 of this chapter and who was not an active, an inactive or a retired member of the system or a member of the system with a disability on June 30, 2017.
32. " Normal retirement date" means:
(a) For an employee who becomes a member of the system before January 1, 2012, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of twenty years of service or the employee's sixty-second birthday and the employee's completion of fifteen years of service.
(b) For an employee who becomes a member of the system on or after January 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2017, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of either twenty-five years of service or fifteen years of credited service if the employee is at least fifty-two and one-half years of age.
(c) For an employee who becomes a member of the system on or after July 1, 2017, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of fifteen years of credited service if the employee is at least fifty-five years of age.
33. " Notice of receipt" means a written document that is issued by the system to a participant and alternate payee and that states that the system has received a domestic relations order and a request for a determination that the domestic relations order is a plan approved domestic relations order.
34. " Ordinary disability" means a physical condition that the local board determines will prevent an employee totally and permanently from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's department or a mental condition that the local board determines will prevent an employee totally and permanently from engaging in any substantial gainful activity.
35. " Participant" means a member who is subject to a domestic relations order.
36. " Participant's portion" means benefits that are payable to a participant pursuant to a plan approved domestic relations order.
37. " Pension" means a series of monthly amounts that are payable to a person who is entitled to receive benefits under the plan but does not include an annuity that is payable pursuant to section 38-846.01.
38. " Personal representative" means the personal representative of a deceased alternate payee.
39. " Physician" means a physician who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17.
40. " Plan approved domestic relations order" means a domestic relations order that the system approves as meeting all the requirements for a plan approved domestic relations order as otherwise prescribed in this article.
41. " Plan year" or " fiscal year" means the period beginning on July 1 of any year and ending on June 30 of the next succeeding year.
42. " Regularly assigned to hazardous duty" means regularly assigned to duties of the type normally expected of municipal police officers, municipal or state firefighters, eligible fire district firefighters, state highway patrol officers, county sheriffs and deputies, fish and game wardens, firefighters and police officers of a nonprofit corporation operating a public airport pursuant to sections 28-8423 and 28-8424, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents or a community college district governing board, state attorney general investigators who are certified peace officers, county attorney investigators who are certified peace officers, department of liquor licenses and control investigators who are certified peace officers, Arizona department of agriculture officers who are certified peace officers, Arizona state parks board rangers and managers who are certified peace officers, county park rangers who are certified peace officers, police officers who are certified peace officers and who are employed by an Indian reservation police agency, firefighters who are employed by an Indian reservation firefighting agency or game rangers who are certified peace officers and who are employed by an Indian reservation. Those individuals who are assigned solely to support duties such as secretaries, stenographers, clerical personnel, clerks, cooks, maintenance personnel, mechanics and dispatchers are not assigned to hazardous duty regardless of their position classification title. Since the normal duties of those jobs described in this paragraph are constantly changing, questions as to whether a person is or was previously regularly assigned to hazardous duty shall be resolved by the local board on a case-by-case basis. Resolutions by local boards are subject to rehearing and appeal.
43. " Retirement" or " retired" means termination of employment after a member has fulfilled all requirements for a pension, for an employee who becomes a member of the system on or after January 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2017, attains the age and service requirements for a normal retirement date or for an employee who becomes a member of the system on or after July 1, 2017 attains the age and credited service requirements for a normal retirement date. Retirement shall be considered as commencing on the first day of the month immediately following a member's last day of employment or authorized leave of absence, if later.
44. " Segregated funds" means the amount of benefits that would currently be payable to an alternate payee pursuant to a domestic relations order under review by the system, or a domestic relations order submitted to the system that failed to qualify as a plan approved domestic relations order, if the domestic relations order were determined to be a plan approved domestic relations order.
45. " Service" means the last period of continuous employment of an employee by the employers before the employee's retirement, except that if such period includes employment during which the employee would not have qualified as a member had the system then been effective, such as employment as a volunteer firefighter, then only twenty-five percent of such noncovered employment shall be considered as service. Any absence that is authorized by an employer shall not be considered as interrupting continuity of employment if the employee returns within the period of authorized absence. Transfers between employers also shall not be considered as interrupting continuity of employment. Any period during which a member is receiving sick leave payments or a temporary disability pension shall be considered as service. Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, any period during which a person was employed as a full-time paid firefighter for a corporation that contracted with an employer to provide firefighting services on behalf of the employer shall be considered as service if the employer has elected at its option to treat part or all of the period the firefighter worked for the company as service in its applicable joinder agreement. Any reference in this system to the number of years of service of an employee shall be deemed to include fractional portions of a year.
46. " State" means the state of Arizona, including any department, office, board, commission, agency or other instrumentality of this state.
47. " System" means the public safety personnel retirement system established by this article.
48. " Temporary disability" means a physical or mental condition that the local board finds totally and temporarily prevents an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's department and that was incurred in the performance of the employee's duty.

Structure Arizona Revised Statutes

Arizona Revised Statutes

Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees

§ 38-101 - Definitions

§ 38-201 - General qualifications

§ 38-211 - Nominations by governor; consent of senate; appointment

§ 38-212 - Limitation on appointments

§ 38-221 - Commission of office

§ 38-231 - Officers and employees required to take loyalty oath; form; classification; definition

§ 38-232 - Time of oath

§ 38-233 - Filing oaths of record

§ 38-234 - Usurpation of office; classification

§ 38-251 - State officers and employees blanket bond; amount; approval

§ 38-253 - Approval of bond; filing

§ 38-254 - Bond premiums as public charge

§ 38-255 - Recording of bond; copies

§ 38-256 - Form of official bonds

§ 38-257 - Justification of sureties; officers ineligible as sureties

§ 38-258 - Limitation of liability by sureties

§ 38-259 - Extent of liability

§ 38-260 - Beneficiaries of bond

§ 38-261 - Successive recoveries

§ 38-262 - Defects in form, approval or filing of bond

§ 38-263 - Additional bond; failure to file

§ 38-264 - Additional bond; terms

§ 38-265 - Liability on original and additional bonds

§ 38-266 - Judgment on original and additional bonds; contribution of sureties

§ 38-267 - Discharge of sureties

§ 38-268 - Bonds of persons appointed to fill vacancies

§ 38-269 - Withdrawal of surety; effect on remaining sureties

§ 38-270 - Supplemental bond upon withdrawal of surety; exception

§ 38-271 - Effect of withdrawal on liability of surety

§ 38-272 - Affidavit of plaintiff in action to recover on bond that defendant owns real property; notice to recorder

§ 38-273 - Recording notice of ownership of real property; lien of judgment

§ 38-291 - Vacancy defined

§ 38-292 - Notice of vacancy in office

§ 38-293 - Effect of conviction of officer

§ 38-294 - Resignations

§ 38-295 - Term of office; discharge of official duties after expiration of term; appointment to fill unexpired term

§ 38-296 - Limitation on filing for election by incumbent of elective office

§ 38-296.01 - Limitation on running for multiple offices

§ 38-297 - Temporary vacancy resulting from military service; appointive officers and employees

§ 38-298 - Restoration to position following military service

§ 38-299 - Effect of expiration of term prior to separation from military service

§ 38-300 - Temporary vacancy resulting from military service; elective office

§ 38-311 - Officers subject to impeachment

§ 38-312 - Articles of impeachment

§ 38-313 - Impeachment hearing; service on accused

§ 38-314 - Court of impeachment; organization

§ 38-315 - Witness fees; execution of process

§ 38-316 - Absence of senator from hearing

§ 38-317 - Compensation of impeachment personnel

§ 38-318 - Expenses of impeachment proceedings

§ 38-319 - Vacancy in board of managers

§ 38-320 - Appearance of accused; plea

§ 38-321 - Judgment

§ 38-322 - Performance of official duties by accused

§ 38-341 - Accusation by grand jury

§ 38-342 - Service on accused; appearance and plea

§ 38-343 - Trial; judgment

§ 38-344 - Procedure upon accusation of county attorney

§ 38-345 - Right of appeal; suspension from office pending appeal

§ 38-361 - Powers and duties of successor in office

§ 38-362 - Delivery of property and records to successor

§ 38-363 - Withholding or destruction of records or property of office by former officer; classification

§ 38-364 - Summary proceedings to obtain property and records of office

§ 38-381 - Declaration of policy

§ 38-382 - Definitions

§ 38-383 - Unavailability of governor; appointment of temporary successor

§ 38-384 - Unavailability of other elected officers of the state or political subdivisions; appointment of temporary successor

§ 38-385 - Convening legislating bodies in event of an attack

§ 38-386 - Quorum and vote requirements of state and local legislating bodies

§ 38-401 - Office hours for state offices

§ 38-411 - Record of fees; inspection of fee book

§ 38-412 - Posting schedule of fees

§ 38-413 - Charging excessive fees; classification

§ 38-414 - Collection of fees; failure to report amount collected; classification

§ 38-421 - Stealing, destroying, altering or secreting public record; classification

§ 38-422 - Failure of tax or revenue collector or disburser to permit inspection of books by attorney general or county attorney; classification

§ 38-423 - Making or giving false certificate; classification

§ 38-424 - Use of electronic recording devices; use of court reporter or stenographer; official record; presumed remedy for deficient electronic record

§ 38-431 - Definitions

§ 38-431.01 - Meetings shall be open to the public

§ 38-431.02 - Notice of meetings

§ 38-431.03 - Executive sessions; definitions

§ 38-431.04 - Writ of mandamus

§ 38-431.05 - Meeting held in violation of article; business transacted null and void; ratification

§ 38-431.06 - Investigations; written investigative demands

§ 38-431.07 - Violations; enforcement; civil penalty; removal from office; in camera review

§ 38-431.08 - Exceptions; limitation

§ 38-431.09 - Declaration of public policy

§ 38-441 - Discharge of duties of another office; attestation

§ 38-442 - Persons acting as public officers without qualifying; classification; effect of acts

§ 38-443 - Nonfeasance in public office; classification

§ 38-444 - Asking or receiving illegal gratuity or reward; classification

§ 38-445 - Using pass or obtaining special rates for transportation; classification; exception

§ 38-446 - Acts based on written opinions; immunity

§ 38-447 - Violation of prohibition against acquisition of certain interests by public officers; classification

§ 38-448 - State employees; access to internet pornography prohibited; cause for dismissal; definitions

§ 38-449 - Display of POW/MIA flag

§ 38-450 - Display of honor and remember flag

§ 38-461 - Appointment and recording of appointment

§ 38-462 - Powers and duties of deputies

§ 38-463 - Liability of officer on bond for acts of deputies and assistants; bond of deputies and assistants; approval

§ 38-464 - Authorization for payment of salary; limitation

§ 38-465 - Purchase of appointment to office; classification

§ 38-466 - Sale of appointment to office; classification

§ 38-481 - Employment of relatives; violation; classification; definition

§ 38-491 - Eligibility; age limit

§ 38-492 - Preferences

§ 38-493 - Effect of article

§ 38-494 - Violations; classification

§ 38-501 - Application of article

§ 38-502 - Definitions

§ 38-503 - Conflict of interest; exemptions; employment prohibition

§ 38-504 - Prohibited acts

§ 38-505 - Additional income prohibited for services

§ 38-506 - Remedies

§ 38-507 - Opinions of the attorney general, county attorneys, city or town attorneys and house and senate ethics committee

§ 38-508 - Authority of public officers and employees to act

§ 38-509 - Filing of disclosures

§ 38-510 - Penalties

§ 38-511 - Cancellation of political subdivision and state contracts; definition

§ 38-519 - Legislative ethics committees; membership; powers and duties; code of ethics

§ 38-531 - Definitions

§ 38-532 - Prohibited personnel practice; violation; reinstatement; exceptions; civil penalty

§ 38-533 - Exemptions

§ 38-534 - Appropriate independent personnel boards

§ 38-538 - Designation of state and political subdivision motor vehicles; definition

§ 38-538.01 - State and political subdivision vehicles; patterns and insignias; violation; classification

§ 38-538.02 - Use of state motor vehicles; personal vehicle reimbursement

§ 38-538.03 - Exemptions

§ 38-538.04 - Violation; classification

§ 38-541 - Definitions

§ 38-543 - Duty to file financial disclosure statement by candidate for public office

§ 38-544 - Violation; classification

§ 38-545 - Local public officers financial disclosure

§ 38-591 - Definitions

§ 38-592 - Public service orientation programs; implementation

§ 38-601 - Effect of payment of legal salary

§ 38-602 - Limitation on action for salary; waiver of right to additional salary

§ 38-606 - Suspension of salary pending determination of contested title to office; exception

§ 38-607 - Recovery of payment to disqualified persons

§ 38-608 - Compensation or time off for legal holidays

§ 38-609 - Retention of salary of subordinate; classification

§ 38-610 - Leaves of absence for certain military and disaster training; definitions

§ 38-610.01 - Leave of absence and compensation for officers and employees during active military service

§ 38-610.02 - Leave of absence and compensation for national disaster medical system employment

§ 38-611 - Compensation of certain state officers and employees

§ 38-611.01 - Arizona state retirement system; incentive compensation plan; special pay plan

§ 38-611.02 - Public safety personnel retirement system; special pay practices

§ 38-612 - Administration of payroll salary deductions

§ 38-613 - State employee suggestion program awards; fund

§ 38-614 - Merit awards; county employees; merit award system board; special merit award fund

§ 38-615 - Payment for accumulated sick leave; requirements; limit; definition

§ 38-616 - Retiree accumulated sick leave fund; administration; contribution

§ 38-617 - County safety incentive awards

§ 38-618 - Performance based incentives program

§ 38-621 - Persons eligible to receive travel expenses

§ 38-622 - Authorization for travel; claims

§ 38-623 - Means of travel; rates

§ 38-624 - Lodging expenses; meal and incidental expense reimbursement and long-term subsistence allowance; items covered by reimbursement; amount predetermined by department of administration

§ 38-625 - Receipts for transportation

§ 38-626 - Out-of-state travel; approval; exemptions

§ 38-626.01 - Authorization for certain out-of-state travel by state employees

§ 38-627 - Use of state equipment out of state

§ 38-641 - Definitions

§ 38-642 - Public safety cancer insurance policy program

§ 38-643 - Public safety cancer insurance policy program account

§ 38-644 - Eligibility

§ 38-645 - Coverage

§ 38-651 - Expenditure of monies for health and accident insurance; definition

§ 38-651.01 - Group health and accident coverage for retired public employees and elected officials and their dependents

§ 38-651.02 - Expenditure of funds for group life and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance; group life coverage for former elected officials

§ 38-651.03 - Expenditure of funds for disability income insurance

§ 38-651.04 - Procurement of insurance; combining of coverages

§ 38-651.05 - Flexible or cafeteria employee benefit plan; fund

§ 38-652 - Experience rating dividends and unused claim reserves; deposit; trust account

§ 38-653 - Rules and regulations

§ 38-654 - Special employee health insurance trust fund; purpose; investment of monies; use of monies; exemption from lapsing; annual report

§ 38-656 - Optional inclusion of city, town, county, special taxing district, authority, public entity and community college district employees in state health and accident coverage; payment of premiums; advance notice; minimum period of participatio...

§ 38-657 - Long-term care insurance

§ 38-658 - Report to joint legislative budget committee

§ 38-671 - Employee benefits; exclusions; definitions

§ 38-672 - Traumatic event counseling for public safety employees; report; exceptions; definitions

§ 38-673 - Traumatic event counseling for peace officers and firefighters; report; exceptions; definitions

§ 38-701 - Definitions

§ 38-702 - Federal-state agreement

§ 38-703 - Plans for coverage of employees of eligible political subdivisions; payroll audits

§ 38-704 - Rule making powers of state agency

§ 38-705 - Studies and reports by state agency

§ 38-706 - Referenda and certification

§ 38-711 - Definitions

§ 38-712 - ASRS purpose; trust fund

§ 38-713 - ASRS board; qualifications; term; compensation

§ 38-714 - Powers and duties of ASRS and board

§ 38-715 - Director; powers and duties

§ 38-716 - Employers' responsibilities under the system

§ 38-717 - Liability insurance and immunity for the board

§ 38-718 - Investment managers; general powers and duties; investment of monies; limitations

§ 38-719 - Interest paid to members and employers

§ 38-720 - ASRS depository

§ 38-721 - Administration account

§ 38-722 - Abandoned monies; disposition

§ 38-723 - Recovery of collection costs; levy and distraint; definitions

§ 38-724 - Surrender of property subject to levy; authority to release levy and return property; definitions

§ 38-725 - Financial institutions data match; prohibited disclosure; fee; definition

§ 38-727 - Eligibility; options

§ 38-729 - Political subdivision plans

§ 38-730 - Charter city or ASRS retirement service credits; transfers

§ 38-735 - Payment of contributions; recovery of delinquent payments

§ 38-736 - Member contributions

§ 38-737 - Employer contributions; prepayment; definitions

§ 38-738 - Adjustment and refund

§ 38-739 - Credited service

§ 38-739.01 - Credited service retention

§ 38-740 - Return of contributions

§ 38-741 - Reemployment of inactive member

§ 38-742 - Reinstatement

§ 38-743 - Public service credit

§ 38-744 - Leave of absence; credit for leave without pay

§ 38-745 - Credit for military service

§ 38-746 - Compensation limitation; adjustments

§ 38-747 - Purchase of credited service; payment; limitations; definitions

§ 38-748 - Employer payments for ineligible contributions; definitions

§ 38-749 - Employer termination incentive program; employer payment of actuarial cost; definition

§ 38-750 - Transfers out of the system

§ 38-751 - Nonparticipatory employer liability allocation; exemption; definitions

§ 38-755 - Member's account information; beneficiary designation; spousal consent; confidentiality

§ 38-756 - Outreach education program

§ 38-757 - Normal retirement

§ 38-758 - Early retirement

§ 38-759 - Late retirement; definition

§ 38-760 - Optional forms of retirement benefits

§ 38-762 - Survivor benefits before retirement; definition

§ 38-763 - Survivor benefits after retirement

§ 38-764 - Commencement of retirement; payment of retirement benefits; lump sum payments

§ 38-765 - Errors; benefit recomputation

§ 38-766 - Retired members; return to work; suspension of benefits; exceptions; maximum benefit

§ 38-766.01 - Retired members; return to work

§ 38-766.02 - Retired members; return to work; employer contribution payments; exception; definitions

§ 38-767 - Benefit increases; applicability

§ 38-768 - Minimum retirement benefit

§ 38-769 - Maximum retirement benefits; termination; definitions

§ 38-770 - Eligible rollover distribution; definitions

§ 38-771 - Benefit options for transferred defined contribution program members; definitions

§ 38-771.01 - Alternative benefits for transferred defined contribution program members; definitions

§ 38-772 - Prior service under defined contribution program administered by ASRS; definitions

§ 38-773 - Benefit payments to alternate payee under acceptable domestic relations order; termination of marriage; revocation of beneficiary designation; definitions

§ 38-774 - Excess benefit arrangement

§ 38-775 - Required distributions; definitions

§ 38-776 - Spousal waiver and consent

§ 38-781 - Supplemental employee deferral plan; public employees; administration; immunity; definitions

§ 38-782 - Group health and accident coverage for retired public employees and elected officials and their dependents; definition

§ 38-783 - Retired members; dependents; health insurance; premium payment; separate account; definitions

§ 38-791 - Assurances and liabilities

§ 38-792 - Exemptions from execution, attachment and taxation; exception

§ 38-793 - Violation; classification

§ 38-794 - Reservation to legislature

§ 38-797 - Definitions

§ 38-797.01 - LTD program

§ 38-797.02 - LTD trust fund

§ 38-797.03 - ASRS board; personnel; duties; hearing or review; executive session

§ 38-797.04 - Eligibility

§ 38-797.05 - Employer and member contributions

§ 38-797.06 - Contribution rate; annual report

§ 38-797.07 - LTD program benefits; limitations; definitions

§ 38-797.08 - Errors; benefit recomputation

§ 38-797.10 - Assurances and liabilities

§ 38-797.11 - Exemptions from execution, attachment and taxation; exception

§ 38-797.12 - Violation; classification

§ 38-797.13 - Reservation to legislature

§ 38-797.14 - Liquidation of LTD program

§ 38-797.15 - Interest paid to members and employers

§ 38-801 - Definitions

§ 38-802 - Elected officials' retirement plan and fund; administration

§ 38-802.01 - Employer responsibilities under the system

§ 38-803 - Powers and duties of the board; reporting requirements

§ 38-803.01 - Qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement; definitions

§ 38-804 - Membership; termination; credited service; redemption; reemployment

§ 38-804.01 - Reinstatement of credited service; effect of prior law

§ 38-805 - Normal retirement and early retirement pensions

§ 38-805.01 - Resignation; time frame; normal retirement pension; reemployment; employer contributions

§ 38-806 - Disability retirement pensions

§ 38-807 - Survivor pensions

§ 38-808 - Pension payments; computation of amounts; termination

§ 38-809 - Correction of pension payment errors; assignments prohibited; civil liability; restitution or payment of fine; violation; classification; offset of benefits

§ 38-810 - Contributions; appropriations

§ 38-810.01 - Internal revenue code qualification

§ 38-810.02 - Statutory construction

§ 38-810.03 - Compensation limitation; adjustments

§ 38-810.04 - Retired member; return to work; employer contributions

§ 38-810.05 - Required distributions

§ 38-811 - Taxation of benefits; exemption of contributions and securities

§ 38-812 - Maximum annual pension; limitations; definition

§ 38-813 - Availability of retired judges for certain legal services; compensation

§ 38-814 - Termination of plan; adjustment and refund

§ 38-815 - Joinder agreement

§ 38-816 - Redemption of prior service

§ 38-816.01 - Purchase of service; payment

§ 38-817 - Group health and accident coverage for retired members; payment; applicability; forfeiture of interest

§ 38-818.04 - Cost-of-living adjustment

§ 38-820 - Credit for military service

§ 38-821 - Charter city retirement system service credits; transfers

§ 38-822 - Domestic relations orders; procedures; payments

§ 38-823 - Discount rate; service purchase; transfer of service credits

§ 38-831 - Definitions

§ 38-832 - Defined contribution system; annual report; quarterly statements

§ 38-833 - Member and employer contributions; disability

§ 38-834 - Credit for military service

§ 38-840 - Definitions

§ 38-840.01 - EODC disability program; administration; power and duties of the board; hearing; annual report

§ 38-840.02 - EODC disability program trust fund

§ 38-840.03 - Eligibility

§ 38-840.04 - Employer and member contributions

§ 38-840.05 - Contribution rate

§ 38-840.06 - EODC disability program benefits

§ 38-840.07 - Errors; benefit recomputation

§ 38-840.08 - Facility of payment

§ 38-840.09 - Assurances and liabilities

§ 38-840.10 - Exemption from execution and attachment; taxation

§ 38-840.11 - Violation; classification

§ 38-840.12 - Reservation to legislature

§ 38-840.13 - Liquidation of the EODC disability program

§ 38-841 - Purpose; vested benefits

§ 38-842 - Definitions

§ 38-842.01 - Benefit election; eligibility; disability; death; employees hired on or after July 1, 2017

§ 38-842.02 - Public safety employer risk pool

§ 38-843 - Contributions; employer account asset transfers

§ 38-843.01 - Internal revenue code section 414(h) pickup of member contributions

§ 38-843.02 - Internal revenue code qualification

§ 38-843.03 - Statutory construction

§ 38-843.04 - Compensation limitation; adjustments; definition

§ 38-843.05 - Retired members; return to work; employer contributions

§ 38-843.06 - Required distributions

§ 38-843.07 - Adjustment and refund; termination of the system

§ 38-844 - Requirements for retirement benefits and disability pensions

§ 38-844.01 - Vested rights to benefits

§ 38-844.02 - Deferred retirement option plan for employees hired before January 1, 2012; purpose

§ 38-844.03 - Eligibility; participation

§ 38-844.04 - Termination of deferred retirement option plan participation

§ 38-844.05 - Deferred retirement option benefits and participation accounts

§ 38-844.06 - Additional deferred retirement option plan provisions

§ 38-844.07 - Designation of deferred retirement option plan beneficiaries

§ 38-844.08 - Payment of deferred retirement option plan benefits

§ 38-844.09 - Internal revenue code compliance

§ 38-844.10 - Deferred retirement option plan; employer; extension approval

§ 38-845 - Amount of retirement benefit

§ 38-845.01 - Maximum annual pension; limitations; definition

§ 38-845.02 - Payment of pension

§ 38-845.03 - Early retirement

§ 38-846 - Death benefits

§ 38-846.01 - Deferred annuity; exception

§ 38-846.02 - Termination of membership

§ 38-846.03 - Reinstatement of surviving spouse's pension

§ 38-846.04 - Reinstatement of credited service; effect of prior law

§ 38-846.05 - Retiree pool account; transfers; funding

§ 38-846.06 - Eligible rollover distributions; direct rollovers

§ 38-847 - Local boards

§ 38-847.01 - Membership in retirement plan; eligibility

§ 38-847.02 - Voluntary local board consolidation; membership; duties

§ 38-847.03 - Uniform medical review; administrator; disability decisions; definitions

§ 38-847.04 - Board of trustees; determination of retirement benefits; definitions

§ 38-848 - Board of trustees; powers and duties; reporting requirements; independent trust fund; administrator; agents and employees; advisory committee

§ 38-848.01 - Qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement; definitions

§ 38-848.02 - Board of trustees; report on employer and employee costs; posting funding ratio

§ 38-848.03 - Appointed investment management

§ 38-848.04 - Board fiduciary obligations and duties; enforcement; definitions

§ 38-849 - Limitations on receiving pension; violation; classification; reemployment after severance; reinstatement of service credits; reemployment of retired member or member with a disability; definition

§ 38-850 - Assurances and liabilities; board of trustee discretion; overpayments; underpayments

§ 38-851 - Participation of new employers

§ 38-852 - Taxation of benefits; exemption of contributions and securities

§ 38-852.01 - Benefits not to be reduced by social security payments

§ 38-853 - Transfer of credited service

§ 38-853.01 - Redemption of prior service; calculation

§ 38-853.02 - Purchase of service; payment

§ 38-854 - Guarantees from prior systems

§ 38-855 - Transfer outside the public safety personnel retirement system

§ 38-856.05 - Cost-of-living adjustment; members hired on or before June 30, 2017

§ 38-856.06 - Cost-of-living adjustment; members hired on or after July 1, 2017; definition

§ 38-857 - Group health and accident coverage for retired members; payment; forfeiture of interest

§ 38-858 - Credit for military service

§ 38-859 - Medical boards; purposes; composition; medical examinations

§ 38-860 - Domestic relations orders; procedures; payments

§ 38-861 - Future benefit increases; payment; cost calculation; definition

§ 38-862 - Discount rate; service purchase; transfer of service credits

§ 38-863 - Employer disclosure; funding ratio

§ 38-863.01 - Pension funding policies; employers

§ 38-863.02 - Pension funding policies; board; employers' pension funding policies; posting; popular annual financial report

§ 38-865 - Definitions

§ 38-865.01 - Definition of participant

§ 38-866 - Defined contribution plan design; purpose; powers and duties of the board; administration; annual report

§ 38-867 - Contributions; member; employer; pickup

§ 38-867.01 - Rollover distributions and contributions; definitions

§ 38-867.02 - Trustee-to-trustee transfers from system; definitions

§ 38-868 - Contributions; member; employer; applicability of article

§ 38-868.01 - Credit for military service

§ 38-869 - Group health benefits plan; retired participants; definition

§ 38-870 - Definitions

§ 38-870.01 - Disability program; administration; power and duties of the board; hearing

§ 38-870.02 - Disability program trust fund

§ 38-870.03 - Eligibility

§ 38-870.04 - Employer and participant contributions

§ 38-870.05 - Contribution rate

§ 38-870.06 - Disability program benefit

§ 38-870.07 - Death benefits; survivor or eligible child

§ 38-870.08 - Death benefits; surviving spouse; eligible child

§ 38-875 - Definitions

§ 38-876 - Deferred compensation plan; administration

§ 38-877 - Voluntary participation; authorization; payroll salary deductions; employer contributions

§ 38-878 - Effect of participation

§ 38-881 - Definitions

§ 38-881.01 - Employees hired on or after July 1, 2018; defined contribution plan; benefit election; disability

§ 38-882 - Corrections officer retirement plan and fund; administration

§ 38-883 - Board of trustees; powers and duties; reporting requirements

§ 38-883.01 - Qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement; definitions

§ 38-884 - Membership of retirement plan; termination; credited service; redemption; reemployment

§ 38-884.01 - Reinstatement of credited service; effect of prior law

§ 38-885 - Normal retirement; conditions and pension

§ 38-885.01 - Reverse deferred retirement option plan; purpose

§ 38-885.02 - Early retirement

§ 38-886 - Accidental disability retirement; total and permanent disability retirement; qualification; amount of pension; conditions for continued payment of pension

§ 38-886.01 - Ordinary disability retirement; qualifications; amount of pension; conditions for continued payment of pension; definition

§ 38-887 - Pension to surviving spouse of deceased retired member

§ 38-888 - Pension to the surviving spouse of a member

§ 38-889 - Guaranteed minimum aggregate payout

§ 38-890 - Pensions; commencement and duration

§ 38-891 - Employer and member contributions

§ 38-891.01 - Retired member; return to work; employer contributions

§ 38-892 - Internal revenue code section 414(h) pickup of member contributions

§ 38-893 - Local boards; powers and duties; rules; hearings; administrative review

§ 38-893.01 - Voluntary local board consolidation; membership; duties

§ 38-894 - Financial objective of the retirement plan; participating employer contributions

§ 38-895 - Maximum annual pension; limitations; definition

§ 38-895.01 - Compensation limitation; adjustments; definition

§ 38-895.02 - Payment of pension

§ 38-895.03 - Required distributions

§ 38-896 - Taxation of pensions; exemption for contributions

§ 38-897 - Assignments prohibited; liability of fund

§ 38-898 - Subrogation; right of setoff

§ 38-899 - Correction of errors

§ 38-900 - Internal revenue code qualification

§ 38-900.01 - Statutory construction

§ 38-900.02 - Adjustment and refund; termination of plan

§ 38-901 - Transfers into or out of retirement plan

§ 38-902 - Joinder agreement

§ 38-903 - Reservation to the legislature

§ 38-904 - Death benefits; amount

§ 38-905.05 - Cost-of-living adjustment; members hired on or before June 30, 2018

§ 38-905.06 - Cost-of-living adjustment; members hired on or after July 1, 2018; definition

§ 38-906 - Group health and accident coverage for retired members; payment; forfeiture of interest

§ 38-907 - Credit for military service

§ 38-908 - Transfer of credited service

§ 38-909 - Redemption of prior service; calculation

§ 38-909.01 - Purchase of service; payment

§ 38-910 - Domestic relations orders; procedures; payments

§ 38-911 - Deferred annuity; eligibility; amount; exception

§ 38-912 - Civil liability; restitution or payment of fine; forfeiture of benefits; violation; classification; offset of benefits

§ 38-913 - Discount rate; service purchase; transfer of service credits

§ 38-914 - Employer disclosure; funding ratio

§ 38-921 - Transfer of retirement service credits from one retirement system or plan to another retirement system or plan in this state; definitions

§ 38-922 - Transfer or redemption of service credits

§ 38-923 - Transfer of service credits between municipal retirement systems and special retirement plans; definitions

§ 38-924 - Transfer of service credits

§ 38-931 - Definitions

§ 38-932 - Arizona employers' pension prefunding plan

§ 38-933 - Administration and investment by the board; investment options; administrative costs

§ 38-934 - Board authorization of employer participation; employer election

§ 38-935 - Transfer of monies by employer

§ 38-936 - Transfer of assets out of the prefunding plan; requirements

§ 38-937 - Termination of employer's participation; prefunding plan termination

§ 38-938 - Annual financial statements; audit; actuarial valuation report; unfunded pension liability calculation

§ 38-939 - Nontaxable status of prefunding plan; intent

§ 38-940 - Board rules; procedures; discretionary fiduciary duty

§ 38-951 - Definitions

§ 38-952 - Supplemental defined contribution plan; establishment; administration

§ 38-953 - Supplemental option

§ 38-954 - Vesting

§ 38-961 - Public safety officer; duty-related injury; supplemental benefits plan; definitions

§ 38-1001 - Definitions

§ 38-1002 - Merit system council for law enforcement officers

§ 38-1003 - Powers and duties of council

§ 38-1004 - Appeals; hearings

§ 38-1005 - Status of persons employed prior to merit system institution

§ 38-1006 - Authority of city or town to use county merit system council

§ 38-1007 - Exemptions

§ 38-1101 - Definitions

§ 38-1102 - Peace officers bill of rights; preemption

§ 38-1103 - Discipline of law enforcement officers; exceptions

§ 38-1104 - Internal investigations; employee representative; exception

§ 38-1105 - Law enforcement officer as witness; right to representation; exception

§ 38-1106 - Appeal of disciplinary actions; transcripts; change of hearing officer or administrative law judge; burden of proof; final disposition report;exception

§ 38-1107 - Superior court review hearing; remedy; exceptions

§ 38-1108 - Polygraph examinations; exception

§ 38-1109 - Confidentiality of records; exception

§ 38-1110 - Time limitation on disciplinary action against law enforcement officer;

§ 38-1111 - Critical incident stress management team member; privilege; exceptions; definitions

§ 38-1112 - Law enforcement officers; fitness for duty examinations; rights of officers; definitions

§ 38-1113 - Carrying of firearms by peace officers; exceptions; definitions

§ 38-1114 - Health insurance payments for spouse or dependents of law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; applicability; definitions

§ 38-1115 - Officers; purchase of firearm; definitions

§ 38-1116 - Use of force incident investigation; right to view recorded video; statement

§ 38-1117 - Law enforcement officer investigation and discipline committee, board, agency, department, office, entity or person; membership; qualifications; exceptions; statewide concern; definition

§ 38-1118 - Use-of-force incidents; data collection; reports; rules; public records; definitions

§ 38-1119 - Law enforcement officers; database; notice; request for reconsideration; definitions

§ 38-1120 - Peace officer complaint; mandatory notice

§ 38-1131 - Definitions

§ 38-1132 - Preemption

§ 38-1133 - Discipline of probation officers

§ 38-1134 - Internal investigations; employee representative; polygraph examination

§ 38-1135 - Probation officers as witnesses; right to representation

§ 38-1136 - Appeal of disciplinary action; change of hearing officer; burden of proof

§ 38-1137 - Confidentiality of records

§ 38-1138 - Polygraph examinations

§ 38-1139 - Critical incident stress management team member; privilege; exceptions; definitions

§ 38-1140 - Probation officers; fitness for duty; examinations; rights of probation officers; definitions

§ 38-1141 - Health insurance payments for spouse or dependents of a probation officer killed in the line of duty; applicability; definitions

§ 38-1161 - Civilian review board members; required training; statewide concern; exception; definition