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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 24-8-101. Previously retired justice - (a) Any judge or justice under the age of seventy...
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System
§ 24-8-201. Public policy - It is declared to be the state's public policy that...
§ 24-8-202. Applicability - The provisions of this act shall not be retroactive but...
§ 24-8-203. Board of trustees - (a) The administration and control of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement...
§ 24-8-204. Administration - (a) (1) The executive director and administrative staff of the...
§ 24-8-205. Trust fund - (a) In addition to the Judges Retirement Fund in the...
§ 24-8-206. Annual actuarial valuation - An actuarial valuation shall be made annually to determine how...
§ 24-8-207. Membership generally — Prior service credit - (a) All chancery judges, circuit judges, judges of the Court...
§ 24-8-209. Contributions — Members — Refund - (a) The contribution of each member of the Arkansas Judicial...
§ 24-8-210. Contributions — State - (a) The state, as employer, shall make contributions to the...
§ 24-8-211. Contributions — Cessation upon retirement - (a) When a judge is certified as eligible for retirement,...
§ 24-8-212. Credited service — Transfer of service as municipal judge - Any person who shall have served as a municipal judge...
§ 24-8-213. Credited service — Transfer of fourteen years' service as prosecuting attorney - Any person who shall have served not less than fourteen...
§ 24-8-214. Credited service — Transfer of four years' service as prosecuting attorney - Any person who shall have served not less than two...
§ 24-8-215. Eligibility for benefits — Retirement generally - (a) Any active member with a minimum of ten (10)...
§ 24-8-216. Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement - (a) Any judge of a circuit or chancery court who...
§ 24-8-217. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement - (a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who...
§ 24-8-218. Retirement and survivors' benefits generally - (a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and...
§ 24-8-219. Rights of surviving unremarried spouses of certain judges - (a) The surviving unremarried spouse, sixty-five (65) years of age...
§ 24-8-220. Restrictions on benefits - (a) Acts 1953, No. 365, as amended by this act,...
§ 24-8-222. Credited service — Transfer of service as juvenile judge - (a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who...
§ 24-8-223. Redetermination of benefits - (a) Each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall...
§ 24-8-224. Benefits when serving past mandatory retirement age - (a) Notwithstanding § 24-8-215 regarding mandatory retirement under the Arkansas...
§ 24-8-225. Limitation on benefit enhancement — Acts 1997, No. 926 - (a) No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-8-214 shall...
§ 24-8-226. Minimum benefits - The following minimum benefits shall apply to any plan based...
§ 24-8-227. Definition - Unless the context requires otherwise, any listing of judges or...
§ 24-8-228. Proposals to establish or revise benefits - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement...
Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally
§ 24-8-301. Subchapter cumulative - This subchapter shall not repeal existing laws of this state...
§ 24-8-302. Board of trustees - (a) There is created in cities of the first class...
§ 24-8-304. Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies - (a) All payments of retirement benefits under this subchapter shall...
§ 24-8-305. Entitlement to benefits generally - (a) Any judge, licensed to practice law, of a municipal...
§ 24-8-306. Eligibility for benefits — Regular and disability retirement — Surviving Spouses' rights - (a) A judge of a municipal court upon reaching age...
§ 24-8-307. Eligibility for benefits — Cities of the first class or cities of the second class - (a) (1) Upon the approval of a majority of the...
§ 24-8-308. Eligibility for benefits — Twenty years of service - (a) (1) Any judge of a municipal court to which...
§ 24-8-309. Eligibility for benefits — Sixteen years of service as judge and city attorney - Upon the approval of the governing body of the municipality...
§ 24-8-310. Eligibility for benefits — Judge unlicensed to practice law - (a) Any judge of a municipal court who is not...
§ 24-8-311. Eligibility for benefits — Clerks - (a) (1) Any clerk of a municipal court to which...
§ 24-8-312. Right of transfer from or purchase of credit in Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or reciprocal system - (a) (1) A judge of a municipal court and a...
§ 24-8-313. Vote to pay benefits to certain clerks and spouses of judges - (a) Upon a three-fourths (¾) vote of the board of...
§ 24-8-314. Municipal judge filling partial term, etc - (a) Any judge of a municipal court who was elected...
§ 24-8-315. Multicounty districts — Options - (a) The quorum court of any county which is divided...
§ 24-8-317. Funding for retirement benefits - (a) (1) After the repeal of § 24-8-303 providing for...
§ 24-8-318. Additional funding sources for retirement benefits - (a) In addition to the funds for the municipal court...
§ 24-8-319. Benefits - Any person participating in a retirement plan authorized under this...
§ 24-8-320. Municipal Court Retirement Transition Group - (a) Currently, the municipal judges and court clerks in Arkansas...
§ 24-8-321. Funds closed - (a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in...
Subchapter 4 - Municipal Judges and Clerks — Counties with Population of 150,000
§ 24-8-401. Board of trustees - (a) (1) In cities in a county having a population...
§ 24-8-403. Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies for any judge of municipal court — Proration upon insufficiency of fund for any county municipal judge - (a) All payments of retirement benefits under this subchapter shall...
§ 24-8-404. Entitlement to benefits generally - Any judge of a municipal court or county municipal court,...
§ 24-8-405. Eligibility for benefits — Regular and disability retirement — Surviving Spouses' rights - (a) A judge of a municipal court upon reaching age...
§ 24-8-406. Eligibility for benefits for any judge of municipal court or county municipal court prior to 1995 — Eligibility for benefits for county municipal judge after 1995 - (a) (1) Any judge of a municipal court or county...
§ 24-8-407. Eligibility for benefits — Twenty years of service - (a) Any judge of a municipal court to which this...
§ 24-8-408. Eligibility for benefits — Clerks - (a) (1) Any clerk of a municipal court to which...
§ 24-8-409. Clerks' benefits — Actuarial valuations — Transfer of funds - (a) The city treasurer shall cause an actuarial valuation to...
§ 24-8-410. Benefits - Any person participating in a retirement plan authorized under this...
§ 24-8-411. Funds closed - (a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in...
Subchapter 5 - Municipal Judges and Clerks and Police Judges — Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 24-8-501. Municipal or police judges - (a) (1) Any person who has held office as municipal...
§ 24-8-504. Clerks of city court - (a) Any clerk of a city court established in any...
§ 24-8-505. Benefits - Any person participating in a retirement plan authorized under this...
§ 24-8-506. Funds closed - (a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in...
Subchapter 7 - Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan
§ 24-8-701. Legislative history, findings, and intent - (a) It is found and determined by the General Assembly...
§ 24-8-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the Board...
§ 24-8-703. Creation of Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan - A Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan for the...
§ 24-8-704. Membership generally - (a) Whether elected or appointed to office, all chancery, circuit,...
§ 24-8-705. Members electing coverage - (a) A member electing coverage under this subchapter shall be...
§ 24-8-706. Contributions — Members — Refund - (a) The contribution of each member of the Tier Two...
§ 24-8-707. Contributions — State - (a) The state, as employer, shall make contributions to the...
§ 24-8-708. Contributions — Cessation upon maximum benefit eligibility - When a judge or justice has sufficient service to receive...
§ 24-8-709. Actual service requirement - Benefits and eligibility for benefits under this subchapter shall be...
§ 24-8-710. Eligibility for benefits — Retirement generally - (a) Any member who has a minimum of twenty (20)...
§ 24-8-711. Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement - (a) Any member of the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service...
§ 24-8-712. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement - (a) Any member under the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service...
§ 24-8-713. Retirement and survivors' benefits generally - (a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and...
§ 24-8-714. Restrictions on benefits - (a) The sections of this subchapter are to be complementary,...
§ 24-8-716. Effect on other laws - The provisions of this subchapter shall be accumulative to all...
§ 24-8-717. Redetermination of benefits - Notwithstanding § 24-8-715 [repealed], each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial...
Subchapter 9 - District Court Clerks' Retirement
§ 24-8-901. Definition - As used in this subchapter, “municipal judge's retirement fund” means...
§ 24-8-902. Additional funding for district court clerks - (a) A local government that has established a municipal judge's...
§ 24-8-903. Retirement membership of district court clerks - (a) All municipal court clerks and district court clerks who...
§ 24-8-904. Reciprocal system - (a) Court clerks placed in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement...