(a) Any judge of a municipal court who is not licensed to practice law, who has served at least twenty (20) years as municipal judge or police judge, and who resigns, retires, or is succeeded in office shall receive retirement benefits upon attaining age sixty (60).
(b) These benefits shall continue for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-fourth (¼) of the salary payable to him or her at the time he or she resigned, retired, or was succeeded in office.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions
Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees
Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally
§ 24-8-301. Subchapter cumulative
§ 24-8-304. Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies
§ 24-8-305. Entitlement to benefits generally
§ 24-8-306. Eligibility for benefits — Regular and disability retirement — Surviving Spouses' rights
§ 24-8-307. Eligibility for benefits — Cities of the first class or cities of the second class
§ 24-8-308. Eligibility for benefits — Twenty years of service
§ 24-8-309. Eligibility for benefits — Sixteen years of service as judge and city attorney
§ 24-8-310. Eligibility for benefits — Judge unlicensed to practice law
§ 24-8-311. Eligibility for benefits — Clerks
§ 24-8-313. Vote to pay benefits to certain clerks and spouses of judges
§ 24-8-314. Municipal judge filling partial term, etc
§ 24-8-315. Multicounty districts — Options
§ 24-8-317. Funding for retirement benefits
§ 24-8-318. Additional funding sources for retirement benefits