§ 24-12-128. County officials and employees
When any county official or county employee retires and either is age fifty-five (55) or older and vested in the County Division of the Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System or has thirty (30) or more years of actual service or thirty-five (35) years of credited service in the County Division regardless of age, the official […]
§ 24-12-129. Municipal officials and employees
When any municipal official or municipal employee age fifty-five (55) or over who has completed twenty (20) years of service to the municipality and who is vested in the retirement system retires, the official or employee may continue to participate in the municipality’s healthcare plan, receiving the same medical benefits and paying the same premium […]
§ 24-12-130. Limitation on benefits provided by Acts 1997, No. 1098
Nothing contained in § 24-12-129 should be interpreted to prevent a municipality from providing benefits contained in § 24-12-129 to retirees who are less than age fifty-five (55) or who have completed fewer than twenty (20) years of municipal service. Further, any person who qualified and participated in a municipal health care plan under § […]
§ 24-12-131. Monthly benefit increase
Any former mayor of a municipality having a population of not fewer than twenty-one thousand eight hundred (21,800) nor more than twenty-two thousand eight hundred (22,800) according to the 1990 Federal Decennial Census who is receiving a monthly retirement annuity of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) from a municipality shall receive an increase to three […]
§ 24-12-132. Health benefits for retired municipal employees and officials
(a) A retired employee or official may participate in the healthcare plan of the municipality from which he or she retired if he or she: (1) Is receiving a retirement benefit from the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System, Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System, or a local pension fund; (2) Pays both the employer […]
§ 24-12-101. Definitions
As used in this act, “paid nonuniformed employees”: (1) Means the mayor, city attorney, city treasurer, city clerk, or municipal judge of any city to which this act is applicable when the mayor, city attorney, city treasurer, city clerk, or municipal judge elects to be so included; and (2) May include the other full-time paid […]
§ 24-12-102. Applicability
This act shall not apply to any city having a paid nonuniformed employees’ pension and relief fund prior to February 23, 1949.
§ 24-12-103. Vote to effect act
(a) The provisions of this act shall be suspended and inoperative in any city affected by the provisions of the act until made available by a vote favorable thereto of the majority of the qualified electors of the cities participating in any election on the question at a special election called for the purpose of […]
§ 24-12-104. Tax levy to support fund
(a) Annually, a tax not to exceed one and one-half (1½) mills on the dollar of all taxable property in cities of the first class and cities of the second class which have paid nonuniformed employees may be levied by a vote of the people as a fund for pensioned, superannuated, and retired paid nonuniformed […]
§ 24-12-105. Board of trustees
(a) (1) The board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall consist of five (5) members and shall be composed of the mayor, the head of the street department, the city treasurer, who shall be the treasurer of the fund and the general manager of the waterworks, or the […]