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§ 24-8-711. Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement

(a) Any member of the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan for the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has eight (8) years or more of actual service in the system may elect to retire and receive retirement benefits at any time after reaching age sixty-two (62) and before reaching age sixty-five (65). (b) The […]

§ 24-8-411. Funds closed

(a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in this subchapter are closed effective December 31, 2004. (b) There will be no new members in these funds after December 31, 2004.

§ 24-8-712. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement

(a) Any member under the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has served a minimum of three (3) consecutive years as a member of the system shall receive retirement benefits if any incapacitating disability as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System […]

§ 24-8-501. Municipal or police judges

(a) (1) Any person who has held office as municipal judge or police judge for a period of thirty (30) years or more shall receive during the remainder of his or her life, as a pension, one-half (½) of the salary payable to the municipal judge of the court he or she served upon his […]

§ 24-8-713. Retirement and survivors’ benefits generally

(a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and qualified member or retiree under the provisions of this section shall be an amount equal to three and two-tenths percent (3.2%) of annual salary payable to the last judicial office held multiplied by the number of years of actual service under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement […]

§ 24-8-504. Clerks of city court

(a) Any clerk of a city court established in any county, appointed by the judges thereof, may be entitled to the benefits prescribed in this section for such clerks. (b) (1) Any clerk of a city court to which this section applies, appointed by the judges of the court, who shall attain age sixty (60) […]

§ 24-8-714. Restrictions on benefits

(a) The sections of this subchapter are to be complementary, except that no person may take benefits under two (2) or more sections of this subchapter at the same time. (b) Retirement and survivors’ benefits shall be measured by the salary payable for the position last held by the retired or deceased judge or justice […]

§ 24-8-505. Benefits

Any person participating in a retirement plan authorized under this subchapter on or after July 1, 1999, shall be entitled to a retirement benefit if that person has ten (10) or more years of actual service in a plan covered by this subchapter and is at least sixty (60) years of age. If the person […]

§ 24-8-716. Effect on other laws

The provisions of this subchapter shall be accumulative to all present laws pertaining to the retirement of judges of the circuit, chancery, and circuit-chancery courts and of justices of the Supreme Court and shall in no way repeal, amend, or modify such laws except as otherwise specifically provided in this subchapter.

§ 24-8-506. Funds closed

(a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in this subchapter are closed effective December 31, 2004. (b) There will be no new members in these funds after December 31, 2004.