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§ 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, […]

§ 24-11-433. Police pension funds — Partial disability pensions

(a) (1) If a member of a police department of a city of the first class with a population in excess of one hundred seventy thousand (170,000) persons as determined by the 1990 population totals as published by the United States Bureau of the Census becomes physically or mentally permanently partially disabled and this fact […]

§ 24-11-434. Deferred retirement option plan

(a) (1) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension under this subchapter, a police officer who is a member of a policemen’s pension and relief 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 […]

§ 24-11-436. Military service

(a) If a member of a policemen’s pension and relief fund who while an employee enters the United States Armed Forces during any period of compulsory or voluntary military service, the service shall be credited under this subchapter. (b) (1) In any case of doubt as to the period of armed service to be so […]

§ 24-11-437. Credited service — Purchase of former law enforcement service

(a) If the local board of trustees for a policemen’s pension and relief fund decides to extend this benefit for its members and if the pension fund will be actuarially sound as determined by the actuary for the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board after this benefit increase is extended to members, any member […]

§ 24-11-438. Police-related service

(a) Any member of a policemen’s pension and relief fund who has police-related service with the municipal government shall be entitled to purchase credited service in the system equivalent to the amount of employment service he or she has with the municipal police department in a position as police-related employment service up to a maximum […]

§ 24-11-801. Board of trustees — Members

(a) The board of trustees of every firemen’s relief and pension fund established in a city, incorporated town, or duly qualified fire protection district under this subchapter shall be composed of the following: (1) The chief executive, who shall serve as chair of the board; (2) The city or district clerk or recorder, who shall […]