§ 24-11-809. Apportionment of insurance premium tax generally
(a) (1) There is apportioned and set aside for the use and benefit of duly constituted firemen’s relief and pension funds and for the administrative and actuarial expenses of the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board the annual taxes of two and one-half percent (2.5%) on all foreign and alien premiums collected by all […]
§ 24-11-827. Retired member returning to active status
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, should an age or service retirant return March 1, 1986, or later to employment in a position covered by the firemen’s relief and pension fund from which he or she retired, no pension payments shall be paid to him or her for the period […]
§ 24-11-811. Appropriations of insurance premium tax — Planned community property owners’ associations
(a) As used in this section, “planned community property owners’ association” means an incorporated nonprofit organization operating under recorded land agreements through which each lot owner in a planned unit or other described land area is automatically a member and each lot is automatically subject to a charge for a proportionate share of the expenses […]
§ 24-11-829. Increase in surviving spouse benefits
(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, the board of trustees of any municipal firemen’s relief and pension fund for which a full one-mill tax is levied and which received in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from premium tax funds during the most recent year shall increase surviving spouse benefits payable from […]
§ 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 […]