(a) When a judge is certified as eligible for retirement, no further contribution shall be required of the judge.
(b) Upon the written notice of election by the member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System, a judge with at least twenty (20) years of judicial service may continue or recommence payment of the six-percent (6%) contribution into the system to accrue the maximum retirement benefit provided under § 24-8-218.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions
Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System
§ 24-8-206. Annual actuarial valuation
§ 24-8-207. Membership generally — Prior service credit
§ 24-8-209. Contributions — Members — Refund
§ 24-8-210. Contributions — State
§ 24-8-211. Contributions — Cessation upon retirement
§ 24-8-212. Credited service — Transfer of service as municipal judge
§ 24-8-213. Credited service — Transfer of fourteen years' service as prosecuting attorney
§ 24-8-214. Credited service — Transfer of four years' service as prosecuting attorney
§ 24-8-215. Eligibility for benefits — Retirement generally
§ 24-8-216. Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement
§ 24-8-217. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement
§ 24-8-218. Retirement and survivors' benefits generally
§ 24-8-219. Rights of surviving unremarried spouses of certain judges
§ 24-8-220. Restrictions on benefits
§ 24-8-222. Credited service — Transfer of service as juvenile judge
§ 24-8-223. Redetermination of benefits
§ 24-8-224. Benefits when serving past mandatory retirement age
§ 24-8-225. Limitation on benefit enhancement — Acts 1997, No. 926