Title 38, Public Officers and Employees

A. The annual compensation of each member taken into account for purposes of the plan shall not exceed the following: 1. Beginning January 1, 1996 through December 31, 2001, one hundred fifty thousand dollars. 2. Beginning January 1, 2002, two hundred thousand dollars. B. If comp…

A. An employer shall pay contributions at an alternate contribution rate on behalf of a retired member who returns to work in any capacity in a position ordinarily filled by an elected official of the employer. This section applies to a retired member who has been retired for mor…

All distributions required under this article shall be determined and made pursuant to section 401(a)(9) of the internal revenue code and the regulations that are issued under that section by the United States secretary of the treasury.

The member and employer contributions and the securities in the fund are exempt from state, county and municipal taxes. Member and employer contributions that are made to and subsequently withdrawn from the fund after December 31, 1974 by a member from the accounts of the plan an…

A. The maximum annual pension for a limitation year shall not exceed the following: 1. For limitation years beginning before 1995, the lesser of ninety thousand dollars, as indexed for inflation, or one hundred per cent of the member's average yearly salary. 2. For limitation yea…

A. Every judge retired under this plan may, if physically and mentally able, be subject to call by the supreme court or the chief justice of the supreme court to assist the supreme court, court of appeals or superior court under such directions as the supreme court may give, incl…

A. If the plan terminates, each member's accrued benefits to the date of termination become one hundred percent nonforfeitable to the extent funded. After provision is made for all expenses of the plan, including expenses of liquidation, the assets of the plan shall be allocated …

A. Elected officials of an incorporated city or town may participate in the plan if the governing body of the city or town enters into a joinder agreement with the board on behalf of its elected officials and the employer unconditionally accepts the provisions of the plan and bin…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, an active elected official who has at least five years of credited service with the plan may elect to redeem up to sixty months of any part of the following prior service or employment by paying into the fund the amounts requ…

A member who purchases service pursuant to this article or section 38-922 or 38-924 shall make payments directly to the plan in whole or in part by any one or a combination of the following methods: 1. In lump sum payments. 2. Through an arrangement with the plan that the payment…

A. On notification, the board shall pay from the assets of the separate account established pursuant to subsection G of this section part of the single coverage premium of any group health and accident insurance for each retired member or survivor of the plan who receives a pensi…

A. Each retired member or survivor of a retired member is eligible to receive a compounding cost-of-living adjustment in the base benefit as provided in this section. The first payment under this section shall be made immediately following the first year the cost-of-living adjust…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a member of the plan who has at least five years of credited service with the plan may receive credited service for periods of active military service performed before employment with the member's current employer if: 1. The …

A. A member of a charter city retirement system who is an elected official may apply for a transfer of service credits from the charter city retirement system to the elected officials' retirement plan pursuant to this section if all of the following conditions are met: 1. The mem…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, in a judicial proceeding for annulment, dissolution of marriage or legal separation that provides for the distribution of community property, or in any judicial proceeding to amend or enforce such a property distribution, a court in this state ma…

A. Beginning July 1, 2017, the discount rate specified in subsection B of this section applies to service purchases or transfers of service credits to the plan pursuant to the following sections: 1. Section 38-816, subsection C. 2. Section 38-820, subsection A or B. 3. Section 38…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Annuity account" means an account that is established for each member to record the deposit of member contributions, employer contributions and interest, dividends or other accumulations credited on behalf of the member.…

A. The board shall establish, design and administer a defined contribution system to provide for the retirement of elected officials. B. The purpose of this article is to provide a defined contribution system that is fully funded on a current basis from employer and member contri…

A. Beginning January 1, 2014, the defined contribution system is the retirement program for elected officials, unless the elected official is described in section 38-727, subsection B. Elected officials shall be enrolled in the defined contribution system established by the board…

A. An active member of the defined contribution system who volunteers or is ordered to perform military service may receive years of service for not more than sixty months of military service as provided by the uniformed services employment and reemployment rights act of 1994 (38…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Assets" means the accumulated resources of the EODC disability program. 2. "Board" means the board of trustees established pursuant to section 38-848. 3. "Depository" means a bank in which the monies of the EODC disabili…

A. The elected officials' defined contribution retirement system disability program is established for members of the elected officials' defined contribution retirement system. The board shall administer the EODC disability program. B. The board may delegate authority to administ…

A. The EODC disability program trust fund is established for the purpose of paying benefits under and costs of administering the EODC disability program. The trust fund shall be administered by the board. B. The EODC disability program trust fund consists of all monies paid into …

All members are subject to this article and shall participate in the EODC disability program.

A. Beginning January 1, 2014, employers shall contribute the percentage of the gross compensation of all of the members under their employment so that the total employer contributions equals the amount that the board determines is necessary to pay one-half of all benefits under a…

A. Employer contributions shall be a percentage of gross compensation for each member, as the system actuary determines pursuant to this section. The actuary shall make this determination in an annual valuation performed as of June 30. The valuation as of June 30 of a calendar ye…

A. In determining eligibility for and continuation of a disability benefit and computing the amount available to a member, the board shall follow the same procedures and methods as prescribed in section 38-806, except that an elected official who no longer holds office must apply…

If any change or error in the records results in any member receiving from the EODC disability program more or less than the member would have been entitled to receive if the records had been correct, the board shall correct the error and shall adjust the payments in a manner so …

In the case of incapacity of a member receiving EODC disability program benefits, or in the case of any other emergency as determined by the board, the board may make EODC disability program benefit payments on behalf of the member to another person or persons the board determine…

A. This article does not establish: 1. A contract of employment between an employer and any employee. 2. A right of any member to continue in the employment of an employer. 3. A limitation of the rights of an employer to discharge any of its employees, with or without cause. B. A…

A. The employer and member contributions and the securities in the EODC disability program trust fund established by section 38-840.02 are not subject to execution or attachment and are nonassignable. The employer and member contributions and the securities in the EODC disability…

A person who knowingly makes any false statement or who falsifies or permits to be falsified any record of the EODC disability program with an intent to defraud the EODC disability program is guilty of a class 6 felony.

The right to modify, amend or repeal this article, or any provisions of this article, is reserved to the legislature.

If the legislature determines that the EODC disability program is no longer to be operated for the purposes set forth in this article, any monies remaining in the EODC disability program trust fund after paying all liabilities of the program or after making adequate provision for…

A. Before the establishment of the public safety personnel retirement system, municipal firemen and policemen, employees of the Arizona highway patrol and other public safety personnel in the state of Arizona were covered under various local, municipal and state retirement progra…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Accidental disability" means a physical or mental condition that the local board finds totally and permanently prevents an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's job classification an…

A. An employee who is hired on or after July 1, 2017 and who was not an active, an inactive or a retired member of the system or a member of the system with a disability on June 30, 2017 is eligible to participate in the system or the public safety personnel defined contribution …

A. The public safety employer risk pool is established for members hired on or after July 1, 2017 and consists of, for actuarial purposes in the system and to determine contribution rates pursuant to section 38-843, any employer of an eligible group that has on May 1, 2017 two hu…

A. To qualify as a member as defined in section 38-842, paragraph 31, subdivision (b), a part-time employee shall meet both of the following: 1. Has entered into a written agreement with the employee's employer before July 1, 2031 to work part-time for a period of not more than t…

A. Each employer that participates in the system on behalf of a group of employees who were covered under a prior public retirement system, other than the federal social security act, shall transfer all securities and monies attributable to the taxes and contributions of this sta…

Each employer shall pick up the contributions required of members on account of compensation paid after the effective date specified in the resolution of the board activating the provisions of this section. The picked up contributions shall be treated as employer contributions fo…

The legislature intends that the system is a qualified pension plan under section 401 of the internal revenue code, as amended, or successor provisions of law, and that the trust is exempt from taxation under section 501 of the internal revenue code, as amended. The assets of the…

Because the system as enacted at a particular time is a unique amalgam of rights and obligations having a critical impact on the actuarial integrity of the system, the legislature intends that the system as enacted at a particular time be construed and applied as a coherent whole…

A. The annual compensation of each member taken into account for purposes of the system shall not exceed the following: 1. Beginning January 1, 1996 through December 31, 2001, $150,000. 2. Except for members who are hired on or after July 1, 2017, beginning January 1, 2002, $200,…

A. An employer shall pay contributions at an alternate contribution rate on behalf of a retired member who returns to work in any capacity in a position ordinarily filled by an employee of the employer of an eligible group, unless the retired member is required to participate in …

All distributions required under this article shall be determined and made pursuant to section 401(a)(9) of the internal revenue code and the regulations that are issued under that section by the United States secretary of the treasury.