Title 24 — Retirement and Pensions

(a) (1) Upon an actuarial determination that the policemen's pension and relief fund will remain actuarially sound, the board of trustees of a local policemen's pension and relief fund of cities of the first class shall have the option to establish a vesting rights policy in its …

A.C.A. § 24-11-427Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

In the event of resignation or discharge from the police department of any member thereof, all moneys deducted from his or her salary shall be immediately returned to him or her without interest.

A.C.A. § 24-11-429Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) When an active or retired police officer dies, the board of trustees shall pay from the fund a sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500) to pay the death benefits of the decedent to:(1) The surviving spouse of the…

A.C.A. § 24-11-431Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) Beginning July 1, 1987, in addition to the monthly pension benefits as set forth in §§ 24-11-401 — 24-11-403, 24-11-405 — 24-11-413, 24-11-416, 24-11-417, 24-11-422, 24-11-423, 24-11-425, 24-11-428 — 24-11-430, 24-11-801 — 24-11-807, 24-11-809, 24-11-813 — 24-11-815, and 24-1…

(a) (1) If a member of a police department of a city of the first class with a population in excess of one hundred seventy thousand (170,000) persons as determined by the 1990 population totals as published by the United States Bureau of the Census becomes physically or mentally …

(a) (1) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension under this subchapter, a police officer who is a member of a policemen's pension and relief fund who has not less than twenty (20) years of credited service and who is eligible to receive a servi…

A.C.A. § 24-11-435Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) If a member of a policemen's pension and relief fund who while an employee enters the United States Armed Forces during any period of compulsory or voluntary military service, the service shall be credited under this subchapter. (b) (1) In any case of doubt as to the period o…

(a) If the local board of trustees for a policemen's pension and relief fund decides to extend this benefit for its members and if the pension fund will be actuarially sound as determined by the actuary for the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board after this benefit incr…

(a) Any member of a policemen's pension and relief fund who has police-related service with the municipal government shall be entitled to purchase credited service in the system equivalent to the amount of employment service he or she has with the municipal police department in a…

(a) The board of trustees of every firemen's relief and pension fund established in a city, incorporated town, or duly qualified fire protection district under this subchapter shall be composed of the following:(1) The chief executive, who shall serve as chair of the board;(2) Th…

(a) Meetings of the board of trustees may be called by the chair or by a majority of the members in a manner established by the board. (b) The board shall issue orders signed by the chair and secretary to the persons entitled thereto for the amount of money ordered paid to the pe…

(a) In addition to the other powers granted in this subchapter, the board of trustees of a firemen's relief and pension fund shall have the power to:(1) (A) Compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all matters connected with the operation of this act and in the same …

(a) (1) In those local firemen's relief and pension funds that cover fewer than five (5) members, a local board of trustees may no longer exist, and the fund shall be designated as inactive by the employer.(2) As used in this section, “member” includes an active member or a retir…

(a) (1) All moneys provided for the firemen's relief and pension fund by this act shall be paid over to and received by the treasurer of the city or town for the sole use and benefit of the firemen's relief and pension fund, and the firemen's relief and pension fund shall be used…

(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 t…

(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 relie…

A.C.A. § 24-11-808Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) There is apportioned and set aside for the use and benefit of duly constituted firemen's relief and pension funds and for the administrative and actuarial expenses of the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board the annual taxes of two and one-half percent (2.5%) on …

A.C.A. § 24-11-810Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) As used in this section, “planned community property owners' association” means an incorporated nonprofit organization operating under recorded land agreements through which each lot owner in a planned unit or other described land area is automatically a member and each lot i…

(a) (1) After being once approved by a majority of those voting on the question at any general or special election of any city of the first class or city of the second class, a tax not to exceed one (1) mill on the dollar upon the assessed value of the real and personal property …

It is made the duty of the clerk of each city, town, or fire improvement district in which an organized firemen's relief and pension fund is maintained to file following each fiscal year a report with the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board of the number of firefighters…

(a) Either before or after its order of disbursement by the board to disabled members of the fire department, or to the surviving spouse, guardian of any minor children, or dependent parent of the deceased or retired member of the department, no portion of the firemen's relief an…

Any person possessing the qualifications required under this act who deems himself or herself aggrieved by the decision of any board of trustees of the firemen's relief and pension fund, either in rejecting his or her claim or in the amount allowed by the board, or any city or to…

(a) (1) Within sixty (60) days from July 1, 1975, each full-paid firefighter and each part-paid firefighter whose salary is fifty dollars ($50.00) or more per month, each part-paid firefighter whose salary is less than fifty dollars ($50.00) per month, and each active volunteer f…

(a) In the event that a member of a firemen's relief and pension fund, while an employee, enters the United States Armed Forces during any period of compulsory or voluntary military service, the armed service actually served by him or her shall be credited him or her as service u…

(a) (1) (A) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “salary” means 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, pa…

(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 med…

(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.C.A. § 24-11-821Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(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 cred…

(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 …

(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 th…

(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 con…

(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-fi…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, should an age or service retirant return March 1, 1986, or later to employment in a position covered by the firemen's relief and pension fund from which he or she retired, no pension payments shall be paid to him…

A.C.A. § 24-11-828Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, the board of trustees of any municipal firemen's relief and pension fund for which a full one-mill tax is levied and which received in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from premium tax funds during the mo…

(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension pursuant to this subchapter, any full-paid firefighter who is a member of a firemen's relief and pension fund who has not less than twenty (20) years of credited service and who is eligible to receiv…

A.C.A. § 24-11-831Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

The provisions of § 24-11-820(b)(1) and (2) extending the survivorship benefits for children of deceased firefighters through their college years shall apply retroactively to any situation involving a surviving child that began on or after January 1, 1996.

(a) A member of a firemen's relief and pension fund who has fire-related service with the municipal government is entitled to purchase credited service in the system equivalent to the amount of employment service he or she has with the municipal fire department in a position as f…

(a) An active member of a firemen's relief and pension fund may purchase credited service in the pension fund equivalent to a period not to exceed five (5) years for service rendered by the member while on active duty in the United States Armed Forces before the member's employme…