Arkansas Code
Subchapter 10 - Retirement Benefits
§ 24-4-1001. Determination of benefits for wildlife officers — Responsibility for additional costs

(a) For purposes of determining benefits under this chapter, all credited service, whenever earned, of persons employed as wildlife officers of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission on July 4, 1983, and of persons thereafter employed in such positions prior to July 1, 1997, shall be treated as public safety member service.
(b) The additional cost to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System of this section shall be the responsibility of the commission, and the commission shall pay to the system an additional twelve percent (12%) of covered payroll at the same time as employer contributions are paid by law for other commission employees.
(c) It is the specific intent of this section to provide that the twelve percent (12%) contribution referenced in subsection (b) of this section shall be in addition to those required by § 24-2-701(c).
(d)
(1) Any person who is covered on July 3, 1989, by a state-supported retirement system and who was a member of the system on July 4, 1983, in a position defined by the system as “public safety member” shall receive credit for public safety member service for any service as a wildlife officer with the commission, which service was rendered before July 4, 1983.
(2) Provided, the additional cost to the system shall be the responsibility of the member, and the member shall pay to the system any additional cost, as computed by actuarial determination.

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