§ 24-11-818. Benefits — Voluntary retirement
(a) (1) (A) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “salary” shall mean recurring pays that are received for the firefighter’s regularly scheduled workweek and shall not include, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (a)(1)(B) of this section, payments for unused accrued sick leave or annual leave or the cash […]
§ 24-11-819. Benefits — Disability retirement
(a) (1) Any firefighter who becomes totally and permanently physically or mentally incapacitated for any suitable duty as an employee as a result of personal injury or disease may be retired by the board, upon written application filed by or on behalf of the member, if, after medical examination of the member made by or […]
§ 24-11-820. Benefits — Death of active or retired member other than while employed outside department
(a) (1) Whenever any member of a fire department of any city, town, or fire improvement district covered by this act shall have lost his or her life, except while actually performing work in gainful employment outside the fire department, or any retired member shall die, leaving a spouse or children under nineteen (19) years […]
§ 24-11-822. Benefits — Payments upon death of retirant or beneficiary
(a) (1) If a retirant and his or her eligible beneficiary, if any, of a local firemen’s relief and pension fund authorized by this subchapter, both die before they have received in annuity payments a total amount equal to the accumulated contributions, including any interest credits standing to the retirant’s credit in the system at […]
§ 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 […]
§ 24-11-807. Minimum payments generally — Proration upon insufficiency of fund — Supplemental pensions
(a) For volunteer firefighters, in no case shall the payment to any retired member be less than one hundred dollars ($100) per month, and the payment shall be made in accordance with the justice and equity of each case as determined by the board of trustees of the firemen’s relief and pension fund. (b) Should […]
§ 24-11-826. Additional benefits for certain firefighters hired prior to January 1, 1983 — Definition
(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 1987, in addition to the monthly pension benefits as set forth in §§ 24-11-801 — 24-11-807, 24-11-809, 24-11-812 — 24-11-815, 24-11-818, and 24-11-820, for those firefighters hired prior to January 1, 1983, and who continue to work beyond their twenty-fifth year, the member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund […]