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Home » US Law » 2020 Arkansas Code » Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions » Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds » Subchapter 4 - Police Pension and Relief Funds — Cities of the First Class

§ 24-11-425. Benefits — Death of active or retired member

(a) (1) (A) If any active police officer or any retired member dies from any cause, leaving a surviving spouse, then the board of trustees shall direct a monthly pension during the surviving spouse’s life in an amount equal to the lesser of the: (i) Pension attached to the rank of the deceased police officer […]

§ 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 […]

§ 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 […]