§ 24-11-830. Deferred retirement option plan
(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension pursuant to this subchapter, any full-paid firefighter who is a member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund who has not less than twenty (20) years of credited service and who is eligible to receive a service retirement pension may elect to participate […]
§ 24-11-832. Applicability of § 24-11-820
The provisions of § 24-11-820(b)(1) and (2) extending the survivorship benefits for children of deceased firefighters through their college years shall apply retroactively to any situation involving a surviving child that began on or after January 1, 1996.
§ 24-11-833. Fire-related service
(a) A member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund who has fire-related service with the municipal government is entitled to purchase credited service in the system equivalent to the amount of employment service he or she has with the municipal fire department in a position as fire-related employment service up to a maximum of […]
§ 24-11-834. Former military service credit purchase
(a) An active member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund may purchase credited service in the pension fund equivalent to a period not to exceed five (5) years for service rendered by the member while on active duty in the United States Armed Forces before the member’s employment covered by the pension fund, if […]
§ 24-11-812. Tax levy by city council
(a) (1) After being once approved by a majority of those voting on the question at any general or special election of any city of the first class or city of the second class, a tax not to exceed one (1) mill on the dollar upon the assessed value of the real and personal property […]
§ 24-11-813. Clerk’s report to pension review board
It is made the duty of the clerk of each city, town, or fire improvement district in which an organized firemen’s relief and pension fund is maintained to file following each fiscal year a report with the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board of the number of firefighters with their names, dates of appointment, […]
§ 24-11-814. Subjection of fund to legal process
(a) Either before or after its order of disbursement by the board to disabled members of the fire department, or to the surviving spouse, guardian of any minor children, or dependent parent of the deceased or retired member of the department, no portion of the firemen’s relief and pension fund shall be held, seized, taken, […]
§ 24-11-815. Appeals
Any person possessing the qualifications required under this act who deems himself or herself aggrieved by the decision of any board of trustees of the firemen’s relief and pension fund, either in rejecting his or her claim or in the amount allowed by the board, or any city or town feeling itself aggrieved by any […]
§ 24-11-816. Membership — Contributions
(a) (1) Within sixty (60) days from July 1, 1975, each full-paid firefighter and each part-paid firefighter whose salary is fifty dollars ($50.00) or more per month, each part-paid firefighter whose salary is less than fifty dollars ($50.00) per month, and each active volunteer firefighter employed in the fire department of any city or town […]
§ 24-11-817. Military service
(a) In the event that a member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund, while an employee, enters the United States Armed Forces during any period of compulsory or voluntary military service, the armed service actually served by him or her shall be credited him or her as service under this subchapter. (b) (1) In […]