§ 24-11-823. Increase in benefits for certain persons retired due to total permanent disability
(a) The board of trustees of any municipal firemen’s relief and pension fund may increase benefits to persons who have retired or may retire from the fire department of the municipality because of total and permanent disability and who qualify or may qualify for monthly benefits of less than five hundred dollars ($500). (b) The […]
§ 24-11-824. Fire protection districts
(a) Any fire protection district in this state formed pursuant to §§ 14-284-101 — 14-284-121 and maintaining a fire department within that district is eligible to establish by resolution of the board of commissioners of the district a firemen’s relief and pension fund covering the employees of that fire department. (b) (1) The board of […]
§ 24-11-806. Payments generally
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, payments provided for in this act shall be made monthly upon proper vouchers and in such manner as provided for in other disbursements of the city or town. (b) In a firemen’s relief and pension fund in which the board of trustees of the firemen’s […]
§ 24-11-825. Pensions for volunteer firefighters
(a) Upon termination of volunteer firefighter service with all Arkansas fire departments, a firefighter whose covered volunteer employment has been with more than one (1) Arkansas fire department shall receive a pension based upon the volunteer service if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) His or her volunteer service with his or her […]
§ 24-11-426. Optional vesting rights policy
(a) (1) Upon an actuarial determination that the policemen’s pension and relief fund will remain actuarially sound, the board of trustees of a local policemen’s pension and relief fund of cities of the first class shall have the option to establish a vesting rights policy in its policemen’s pension and relief fund. (2) The required […]
§ 24-11-428. Return of salary deductions
In the event of resignation or discharge from the police department of any member thereof, all moneys deducted from his or her salary shall be immediately returned to him or her without interest.
§ 24-11-429. Vacation pay
The head or chief of each police department shall arrange that each employee shall be granted an annual vacation of not fewer than fifteen (15) working days with full pay.
§ 24-11-430. Death benefit
(a) When an active or retired police officer dies, the board of trustees shall pay from the fund a sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500) to pay the death benefits of the decedent to: (1) The surviving spouse of the police officer; (2) […]
§ 24-11-432. Additional benefits for certain officers hired prior to January 1, 1983
(a) Beginning July 1, 1987, in addition to the monthly pension benefits as set forth in §§ 24-11-401 — 24-11-403, 24-11-405 — 24-11-413, 24-11-416, 24-11-417, 24-11-422, 24-11-423, 24-11-425, 24-11-428 — 24-11-430, 24-11-801 — 24-11-807, 24-11-809, 24-11-813 — 24-11-815, and 24-11-818 — 24-11-820, for those police officers hired prior to January 1, 1983, and who continue […]
§ 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 […]