Title 24 — Retirement and Pensions

(a) (1) Any municipal employee or municipal official, including a municipal judge, municipal court clerk, mayor, city attorney, city treasurer, city clerk, clerk-treasurer, and deputy city clerk, who was erroneously enrolled in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System bec…

(a) Effective July 1, 1993, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall cease to be a member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System. At that time, the director shall become a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System. (b) (1) (A) The retirem…

A.C.A. § 24-4-741Current 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) Any full-time employee of a public facilities board, rural waterworks facilities board, regional solid waste management board, joint county and municipal sanitation authority, regional water distribution board, public rehabilitation services corporation, or other local unit o…

(a) (1) Any full-time employee of the Intergovernmental Juvenile Detention Council of the Tenth Judicial District enrolled in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to this section who is a full-time employee of the council on the date his or her employer becom…

For the purpose of determining benefits under the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, a member of the system who has service as an elected county official for a period during which the office was under the fee system, the salary of the member during that period shall be…

(a) An employee of the General Assembly who has at least five (5) years' service in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System and who served at least four hundred (400) days as a session employee of the General Assembly may apply for and receive current service credit in t…

The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall have the authority to promulgate such rules as are necessary to provide for the participation of employers defined as public rehabilitative services corporations or other local units of government und…

(a) A person who was erroneously included in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for at least two (2) years and whose disqualification from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System was due to employment that caused the person to be a member of another state-s…

(a) A person who was included in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service at full-time employment while at the same time employed full time in another position covered under a municipal police pension and relief fund and whose disqualification from the system …

(a) A member who has performed service other than military service as an employee of a state or local governmental entity in the United States other than in the State of Arkansas or the United States Government may receive credited service for the out-of-state governmental employ…

(a) The Arkansas District Judge Retirement System, established by § 24-8-801 et seq. [repealed], is abolished, and its powers, duties, and plan liabilities are transferred to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System by a type 3 transfer as prescribed in § 25-2-106. (b) Fo…

(a) The government entity that had previously established a local municipal judge's retirement fund shall be required to contribute an amount of money that represents the actuarially determined accrued liability for those judges and former judges who were covered by the local fun…

(a) All assets of the State Police Retirement System are transferred to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System to hold in trust for the State Police Retirement System. (b) There is created under the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System a division that shall be k…

(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a retirement benefit under the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to § 24-2-201 et seq. and § 24-4-101 et seq., any person who is a member of the system and who meets the conditions specified in subsection (b)…

(a) When a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System elects participation in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Deferred Retirement Option Plan, the member shall fill out an application form as developed by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Publ…

(a) (1) The member's deferred benefit shall be the monthly benefit to which the member would have been entitled if the member had thirty (30) years of service and had actually retired on the member's deferred retirement option date with regard to the provisions of § 24-4-606 rela…

(a) The member's participation in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Deferred Retirement Option Plan shall cease at the time the member separates from service. (b) (1) (A) When the member's participation in the plan ceases, the member shall elect to receive the bala…

(a) In the event that an Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Deferred Retirement Option Plan participant dies, the benefits payable from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall be determined as though the participant had separated from service and been fou…

(a) No benefit enhancement provided for by this subchapter shall be implemented if it would cause the publicly supported retirement system's unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities to exceed a thirty-year amortization. (b) No benefit enhancement provided for by this subchapter sha…

(a) (1) Upon the retirement of a member whose credited service results from employment covered by:(A) The Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System;(B) The State Police Retirement System;(C) The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System;(D) The Arkansas State Highway Employees' Retir…