(a) Notwithstanding § 24-8-215 regarding mandatory retirement under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for any judge or justice upon reaching seventy (70) years of age or any other law to the contrary, any judge or justice covered under the system who served continuously for at least sixteen (16) years, who is at least eighty (80) years of age, who is not serving on April 19, 1995, and who is ineligible for retirement due to having served beyond the mandatory retirement age shall be entitled to receive retirement benefits under the system.
(b) Retirement benefits under this section shall be retroactive to January 1, 1995, or, for judges or justices retiring after 1995, to January 1 of the year of retirement.
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