(a)
(1) After the repeal of § 24-8-303 providing for the levy of court costs to fund the municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund, a municipality having provided for retirement benefits for municipal court judges and court clerks in accordance with this subchapter shall continue to provide funds for the retirement benefits in that subchapter in accordance with the funding provisions of § 16-10-308(a)-(d), as long as those provisions allow.
(2) Those funds and any additional funds provided for by this section and § 24-8-318, if levied by the municipality, shall be to provide for the retirement benefits in that subchapter.
(b) The funds for the municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund provided for by § 16-10-308(a)-(d) and any additional funds for municipal court judge and court clerk retirement benefits provided for by this section and § 24-8-318, if levied by the municipality, shall be paid to the city treasurer, who shall place them into an account as provided for in this subchapter.
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