(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, the board of trustees of any municipal firemen's relief and pension fund for which a full one-mill tax is levied and which received in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from premium tax funds during the most recent year shall increase surviving spouse benefits payable from the firemen's relief and pension fund to the amount of the pension received by the retired firefighter at the time of his or her death, or the amount of the pension to which the member would have been entitled on the day he or she died had he or she been retired.
(b) The board shall direct a monthly pension in the increased amount effective on or before August 1, 1993.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions
Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds
Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds
§ 24-11-801. Board of trustees — Members
§ 24-11-802. Board of trustees — Proceedings
§ 24-11-803. Board of trustees — Powers
§ 24-11-804. Administration of small funds by Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System
§ 24-11-806. Payments generally
§ 24-11-809. Apportionment of insurance premium tax generally
§ 24-11-812. Tax levy by city council
§ 24-11-813. Clerk's report to pension review board
§ 24-11-814. Subjection of fund to legal process
§ 24-11-816. Membership — Contributions
§ 24-11-818. Benefits — Voluntary retirement
§ 24-11-819. Benefits — Disability retirement
§ 24-11-822. Benefits — Payments upon death of retirant or beneficiary
§ 24-11-823. Increase in benefits for certain persons retired due to total permanent disability
§ 24-11-824. Fire protection districts
§ 24-11-825. Pensions for volunteer firefighters
§ 24-11-827. Retired member returning to active status
§ 24-11-829. Increase in surviving spouse benefits
§ 24-11-830. Deferred retirement option plan
§ 24-11-832. Applicability of § 24-11-820