(a) Any judge of a municipal court who was elected countywide to a partial term left vacant by the death of the former judge and who shall have completed the same and subsequently shall have been elected to and completed four (4) consecutive four-year terms and shall at the time of his or her retirement have attained age fifty (50), upon retirement shall receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-half (½) of the salary payable to him or her at the time of his or her retirement.
(b) Upon his or her death, his or her surviving spouse shall be entitled for the remainder of his or her natural life, or until he or she remarries, benefits equal to one-half (½) of the retirement benefits which the deceased judge was receiving at the time of his or her death.
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