Title 38, Public Officers and Employees

A. All public employees who work forty hours or more per week who do not receive either compensation or commensurate time off for legal holidays worked, regardless of the day of the week on which such legal holidays fall, shall receive, for each such holiday worked, one day addit…

A public officer or employee who accepts, retains or diverts for his own use or the use of any other person any part of the salary or fees allowed by law or usage to his deputy, clerk, other subordinate officer or employee, is guilty of a class 5 felony.

A. The officers and employees of this state, any county, city or town or any agency or political subdivision of this state or a county, city or town shall be granted leaves of absence from their duties without loss of time, pay or efficiency rating: 1. On all days during which th…

A. If the president of the United States or the governor of this state declares that a state of emergency exists, an officer or employee of this state who is ordered to active military service of the United States or this state as a member of the national guard, air national guar…

A. An officer or employee of this state who is called into employment to the national disaster medical system under the United States department of health and human services and whose state employment is subject to title 41, chapter 4, article 4 or who is exempt pursuant to secti…

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsections B and C of this section, any officer or employee of the state, or any of its agencies, is entitled to receive a salary within the range as determined by the department of administration unless modified by the legislature. B. Elected …

The Arizona state retirement system established by chapter 5, article 2 of this title: 1. May administer an incentive compensation plan for investment related personnel established in consultation with the director of the department of administration. The Arizona state retirement…

The board of trustees of the public safety personnel retirement system established by chapter 5, article 4 of this title: 1. May administer an incentive compensation plan for investment related personnel established in consultation with the director of the department of administr…

A. There shall be no payroll salary deductions from the compensation of state officers or employees except as specifically authorized by federal law or regulation or by a statute of this state. An administrative agency of this state may not authorize any other deduction. B. Notwi…

A. The director of the department of administration may adopt rules to provide an award to any state employee for any of the following: 1. An adopted procedure or idea that resulted in eliminating or reducing state expenditures or improving operations in the public interest. 2. T…

A. A county board of supervisors may adopt rules and regulations to provide merit awards for county employees. The rules and regulations shall include granting a merit award for any of the following: 1. An adopted procedure or idea which resulted in eliminating or reducing county…

A. An officer or employee of this state, subject to legislative appropriation, or an officer or employee of a county, subject to authorization by the board of supervisors, is eligible, on retirement, to receive benefits as follows: 1. An officer or employee who has at least five …

A. A retiree accumulated sick leave fund is established consisting of deposits made pursuant to subsection C of this section. The department of administration shall administer the fund and shall maintain individual accounts for each state officer or employee receiving a benefit o…

A county board of supervisors may adopt rules to provide employee safety recognition awards with terms and conditions deemed appropriate by the board for the safe operation of county government. No award shall exceed two hundred fifty dollars.

A. The director of the department of administration and the president of the Arizona board of regents may establish a performance based incentives program to promote efficiency and effectiveness in state government. The director of the department of administration shall identify …

A. The provisions of this article shall apply to every public officer, deputy or employee of the state, or of any department, institution or agency thereof, and to a member of any board, commission or other agency of the state when traveling on necessary public business away from…

A. When the official duties of a public officer, deputy or employee require the public officer, deputy or employee to travel from the public officer's, deputy's or employee's designated post of duty, the public officer, deputy or employee shall be allowed reimbursement of the exp…

A. Travel by air, railroad or motor vehicle is permitted. Railroad sleeping accommodations shall be considered as transportation, and the cost of railroad sleeping accommodations may be allowed each person traveling. Private conveyance may be allowed for travel inside and outside…

A. A state employee while traveling on authorized state business shall be reimbursed for actual lodging expenses incurred not to exceed a predetermined amount pursuant to subsection C of this section. All claims for reimbursement shall be accompanied by lodging expense receipts. …

Claims which include transportation by common carrier, rented automobiles, trains or airplanes shall not be allowed unless accompanied by receipts, but receipts for transportation by means of local public transportation including taxicabs shall not be required, and such means of …

A. When the official duties or activities of a public officer, deputy or employee of the state or of any department, institution, commission, board or other agency of the state necessitate out-of-state travel, the travel order shall be countersigned by the agency head or by the p…

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 38-626 and 38-627, the agency head, or a person properly delegated by the agency head, may authorize travel of personnel and state equipment under the agency head's jurisdiction into states of the United States adjoining this state.

The agency head or the president of a university may authorize the use of state equipment outside of this state when the agency head or president ascertains in writing that no other means of transportation is available or no service of the type required is provided by existing co…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the board of trustees of the public safety personnel retirement system established by section 38-848, including its authorized employees, administrators, attorneys and agents. 2. "Employer" means this state …

A. Except as provided in subsection D of this section, the board shall establish and administer a public safety cancer insurance policy program for participating employers that employ firefighters or peace officers. For the purposes of the internal revenue code, the program is an…

A. The public safety cancer insurance policy program account is established and shall be under the exclusive control of the board. The board shall deposit monies collected pursuant to section 38-642 in the account to pay the cost of providing a group cancer insurance policy under…

A. Except as provided in subsections B, C and D of this section, to qualify for covered benefits under the program, a person must satisfy all of the following criteria: 1. Be an active or retired member of the public safety personnel retirement system or the corrections officer r…

A. Coverage provided under the program shall provide benefits to eligible persons to pay for expenses that are designated by the board and that are incurred in the treatment of cancer, including treatments by clinics or providers outside of the United States. B. The board may pro…

A. The department of administration may expend public monies appropriated for such purpose to procure health and accident coverage for full-time officers and employees of this state and its departments and agencies. The department of administration may adopt rules that provide th…

A. The department of administration, by rule, shall adopt standards to establish group health and accident coverage for former employees who worked for this state and who opt on retirement to enroll or continue enrollment in the group health and accident coverage for active emplo…

A. The department of administration may expend public funds appropriated for such purpose to procure group life insurance of at least five thousand dollars in coverage and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance of at least five thousand dollars in coverage for full-ti…

The department of administration may expend public funds appropriated for such purpose to procure disability income coverage for full-time officers and employees of the state, its departments and agencies. The department of administration by rule shall adopt standards for integra…

The department of administration may procure insurance coverages provided in this article in any combination of coverages with a single insurance carrier through application of coverage reserves in any combination.

A. The department of administration is authorized to establish a flexible or cafeteria employee benefit plan that may provide for deductions or salary reductions for group life insurance, disability insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance, long-term care cov…

A. Monies that are to be paid by any insurance carrier, other than a carrier that is being discontinued, as experience rating dividends or unused claim reserves resulting from health and accident coverage provided pursuant to this article shall be paid to the department of admini…

The department of administration shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to administer the provisions of this article.

A. The special employee health insurance trust fund is established to administer the state employee health insurance benefit plans. The fund shall consist of legislative appropriations, monies collected from the employer and employees for the health insurance benefit plans and in…

A. If a governing body of a city or town, a county board of supervisors, a community college district governing board, a special taxing district, an authority or any public entity organized pursuant to the laws of this state determines that state health and accident insurance cov…

The department of administration shall spend public monies appropriated to procure long-term care coverage for full-time officers and employees of this state and its departments and agencies. The department of administration by rule shall adopt standards for and designate qualify…

At least ten days before the department of administration enters into or renews contracts for medical and dental insurance coverage, the director of the department of administration shall meet with and review for the joint legislative budget committee in executive session the pla…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, any state employee initially hired on or after July 20, 2011 is not eligible to become a member of any state retirement system before the twenty-seventh week of employment. The state employee shall become a member of the state retirement system o…

(Rpld. 1/1/27) A. Notwithstanding any other law, this state or a political subdivision of this state shall establish a program to provide public safety employees who are exposed to any one of the following events while in the course of duty up to twelve visits of licensed counsel…

(Rpld. 1/1/27) A. Notwithstanding any other law, this state or a political subdivision of this state shall establish a program to provide peace officers, firefighters and 911 dispatchers who are exposed to any one of the following events while in the course of duty up to twelve v…