Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees
§ 38-881 - Definitions

38-881. 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 department and was incurred in the performance of the employee's duties.
2. " Accumulated member contributions" means for each member the sum of the amount of all the member's contributions deducted from the member's salary and paid to the fund, plus member contributions transferred to the fund by another retirement plan covering public employees of this state, plus previously withdrawn accumulated member contributions that are repaid to the fund in accordance with this article, minus any benefits paid to or on behalf of a member.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 38-911.
7. " Average monthly salary" means:
(a) For an employee who becomes a member of the plan:
(i) Before January 1, 2012, one-thirty-sixth of the aggregate amount of salary that is paid a member by a participating employer during a period of thirty-six consecutive months of service in which the member received the highest salary within the last one hundred twenty months of service.
(ii) On or after January 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2018, one-sixtieth of the aggregate amount of salary that is paid a member by a participating employer during a period of sixty consecutive months of service in which the member received the highest salary within the last one hundred twenty months of service.
(iii) On or after July 1, 2018, one-sixtieth of the aggregate amount of salary that is paid a member by a participating employer during a period of sixty consecutive months of service in which the member received the highest salary within the last one hundred twenty months of service.
(b) The aggregate amount of salary that is paid a member divided by the member's months of service if the member has less than thirty-six or sixty months of service. In the computation under this paragraph, a period of nonpaid or partially paid industrial leave shall be considered based on the salary the employee would have received in the employee's job classification if the employee was not on industrial leave.
8. " Beneficiary" means an individual who is being paid or who has entitlement to the future payment of a pension on account of a reason other than the individual's membership in the retirement plan.
9. " Board" means the board of trustees of the public safety personnel retirement system.
10. " Claimant" means a member, beneficiary or estate that files an application for benefits with the retirement plan.
11. " Credited service" means credited service transferred to the retirement plan from another retirement system or plan for public employees of this state, plus those compensated periods of service as a member of the retirement plan for which member contributions are on deposit in the fund.
12. " 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 plan issues a determination finding that a previously submitted domestic relations order did not qualify as a plan approved domestic relations order.
13. " Designated position" means:
(a) For a county:
(i) A county detention officer.
(ii) A nonuniformed employee of a sheriff's department whose primary duties require direct contact with inmates.
(b) For the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections, only the following specifically designated positions:
(i) Food service.
(ii) Nursing personnel.
(iii) Corrections physician assistant.
(iv) Therapist.
(v) Corrections dental assistant.
(vi) Hygienist.
(vii) Corrections medical assistant.
(viii) Correctional service officer, including assistant deputy warden, deputy warden, warden and superintendent.
(ix) State correctional program officer.
(x) Parole or community supervision officers.
(xi) Investigators.
(xii) Teachers.
(xiii) Institutional maintenance workers.
(xiv) Youth corrections officer.
(xv) Youth program officer.
(xvi) Behavioral health treatment unit managers.
(xvii) The director and assistant directors of the department of juvenile corrections and the superintendent of the state educational system for committed youth.
(xviii) The director, deputy directors and assistant directors of the state department of corrections.
(xix) Other positions designated by the local board of the state department of corrections or the local board of the department of juvenile corrections pursuant to section 38-891.
(c) For a city or town, a city or town detention officer.
(d) For an employer of an eligible group as defined in section 38-842, full-time dispatchers.
(e) For the judiciary, juvenile detention officers and those positions designated by the local board of the judiciary pursuant to section 38-891.
(f) For the department of public safety, state detention officers.
(g) For the judiciary, probation and surveillance officers.
14. " 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.
15. " Determination period" means the ninety-day period in which the plan 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 plan mails a notice of receipt to the participant and alternate payee.
16. " Direct rollover" means a payment by the plan to an eligible retirement plan that is specified by the distributee.
17. " 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.
18. " 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.
19. " Eligible child" means an unmarried child of a deceased active 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.
20. " 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) Effective January 1, 2008, 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.
21. " 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.
22. " Employee" means a person employed by a participating employer in a designated position.
23. " Employer" means an agency or department of this state or a political subdivision of this state that has one or more employees in a designated position.
24. " Fund" means the corrections officer retirement plan fund.
25. " Juvenile detention officer" means a juvenile detention officer responsible for the direct custodial supervision of juveniles who are detained in a county juvenile detention center.
26. " Local board" means the retirement board of the employer that consists of persons appointed or elected to administer the plan as it applies to the employer's members in the plan.
27. " Member" :
(a) Means any employee who meets all of the following qualifications:
(i) Who is a full-time paid person employed by a participating employer in a designated position.
(ii) Who is receiving salary for personal services rendered to a participating employer or would be receiving salary except for an authorized leave of absence.
(iii) Whose customary employment is at least forty hours each week.
(b) Includes an employee who meets the requirements of subdivision (a) of this paragraph, who is hired on or after July 1, 2018, who is in a designated position as defined in paragraph 13, subdivision (g) of this section and who makes the irrevocable election to participate in the plan pursuant to section 38-881.01.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this paragraph, does not include an employee who is hired on or after July 1, 2018, unless the employee was an active, an inactive or a retired member of the plan or a member of the plan with a disability on June 30, 2018.
28. " Normal retirement date" means:
(a) For an employee who becomes a member of the plan before January 1, 2012, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of twenty years of service or, in the case of a dispatcher, twenty-five years of service, the employee's sixty-second birthday and completion of ten years of service or the month in which the sum of the employee's age and years of credited service equals eighty.
(b) For an employee who becomes a member of the plan on or after January 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2018, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of twenty-five years of service if the employee is at least fifty-two and one-half years of age or the employee's sixty-second birthday and completion of ten years of service.
(c) For an employee who becomes a member of the plan on or after July 1, 2018, the first day of the calendar month immediately following the employee's completion of ten years of credited service if the employee is at least fifty-five years of age.
29. " Notice of receipt" means a written document that is issued by the plan to a participant and alternate payee and that states that the plan has received a domestic relations order and a request for a determination that the domestic relations order is a plan approved domestic relations order.
30. " Ordinary disability" means a physical condition that the local board determines will totally and permanently prevent an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's department or a mental condition that the local board determines will totally and permanently prevent an employee from engaging in any substantial gainful activity.
31. " Participant" means a member who is subject to a domestic relations order.
32. " Participant's portion" means benefits that are payable to a participant pursuant to a plan approved domestic relations order.
33. " Participating employer" means an employer that the board has determined to have one or more employees in a designated position or a county, city, town or department of this state that has entered into a joinder agreement pursuant to section 38-902.
34. " Pension" means a series of monthly payments by the retirement plan but does not include an annuity that is payable pursuant to section 38-911.
35. " Personal representative" means the personal representative of a deceased alternate payee.
36. " Physician" means a physician who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17.
37. " Plan approved domestic relations order" means a domestic relations order that the plan approves as meeting all the requirements for a plan approved domestic relations order as otherwise prescribed in this article.
38. " 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.
39. " Probation or surveillance officer" means an officer appointed pursuant to section 8-203, 12-251 or 12-259 but does not include other personnel, office assistants or support staff.
40. " Retired member" means an individual who terminates employment and who is receiving a pension pursuant to either section 38-885 or 38-886.
41. " Retirement" or " retired" means termination of employment after a member has fulfilled all requirements for a pension or, for an employee who becomes a member of the plan on or after January 1, 2012, attains the age and service requirements for a normal retirement date.
42. " Retirement plan" or " plan" means the corrections officer retirement plan established by this article.
43. " Salary" means the base salary, shift differential pay, military differential wage pay and holiday pay paid a member for personal services rendered in a designated position to a participating employer on a regular monthly, semimonthly or biweekly payroll basis. Salary includes amounts that are subject to deferred compensation or tax shelter agreements. Salary does not include payment for any remuneration or reimbursement other than as prescribed by this paragraph. For the purposes of this paragraph, " base salary" means the amount of compensation each member 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, fringe benefit pay and similar extra payments.
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 plan, or a domestic relations order submitted to the plan 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 employment rendered to a participating employer as an employee in a designated position. Any absence that is authorized by an employer, including any periods during which the employee is on an employer-sponsored long-term disability program, is considered as service if the employee returns or is deemed by the employer to have returned to a designated position within the period of the authorized absence.
46. " Total and permanent disability" means a physical or mental condition that is not an accidental disability, that the local board finds totally and permanently prevents a member from engaging in any gainful employment and that is the direct and proximate result of the member's performance of the member's duty as an employee of a participating employer.

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