Title 24 — Retirement and Pensions
12 chapters · 740 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-208 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 24-8-208Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-209 Contributions — Members — Refund
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(a) (1) The contribution of each member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be six percent (6%) of each member's annual salary.(2) A judge or justice who forfeits his or her rights to retirement benefits under § 24-8-215(c) is not required to continue to pay contribu…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-210 Contributions — State
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(a) The state, as employer, shall make contributions to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System of twelve percent (12%) of the active member payroll. (b) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State is authorized and directed to make annual transfers on each July 1 to the Judges Retirem…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-211 Contributions — Cessation upon retirement
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(a) When a judge is certified as eligible for retirement, no further contribution shall be required of the judge. (b) Upon the written notice of election by the member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System, a judge with at least twenty (20) years of judicial service may cont…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-212 Credited service — Transfer of service as municipal judge
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(1) Any person who shall have served as a municipal judge in any municipal court in this state and who holds credited service therefor in any retirement system or retirement fund is authorized to transfer his or her credited services in the retirement system or fund to the Arkans…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-213 Credited service — Transfer of fourteen years' service as prosecuting attorney
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(1) Any person who shall have served not less than fourteen (14) years as an elected prosecuting attorney in this state and who holds credited service therefor in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, as established by § 24-4-103, upon being elected as a circuit judge…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-214 Credited service — Transfer of four years' service as prosecuting attorney
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(1) Any person who shall have served not less than two (2) years as an elected prosecuting attorney in this state and who holds credited service therefor in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, as established by § 24-4-103, anytime after being elected as a circuit ju…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-215 Eligibility for benefits — Retirement generally
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(a) Any active member with a minimum of ten (10) years of credited service may voluntarily retire upon reaching sixty-five (65) years of age or thereafter upon filing a written application with the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System. (b) Any other member…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-216 Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement
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(a) Any judge of a circuit or chancery court who has fourteen (14) years or more of credited service in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System, established by Acts 1953, No. 365, may elect to retire and receive retirement benefits under the provisions of Acts 1953, No. 365, at a…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-217 Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement
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(a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has served a minimum of three (3) consecutive years shall receive retirement benefits if any incapacitating disability as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall occur durin…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-218 Retirement and survivors' benefits generally
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(a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and qualified member or retiree under the provisions of this section shall be sixty percent (60%) of the annual salary payable to the last judicial office held and shall be payable for the recipient's life. (b) (1) Survivors' ben…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-219 Rights of surviving unremarried spouses of certain judges
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(a) The surviving unremarried spouse, sixty-five (65) years of age or older, of any person who served as a justice of the Supreme Court, as a judge of the Court of Appeals, or as a judge of any circuit or chancery court of the State of Arkansas for a period of eight (8) years or …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-220 Restrictions on benefits
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(a) Acts 1953, No. 365, as amended by this act, is to be in all of its sections complementary, except that no person may take benefits under two (2) or more sections of this act at the same time. (b) Retirement and survivors' benefits shall be measured by the salary payable for t…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-221 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 24-8-221Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-222 Credited service — Transfer of service as juvenile judge
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(a) Any member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service as a juvenile judge is authorized to transfer that credit to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by:(1) Notifying in writing the administra…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-223 Redetermination of benefits
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(a) Each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall redetermine the amount of each monthly benefit which has been payable by the system for at least twelve (12) full calendar months. The redetermined amount shall be payable for the following twelve (12) calendar months.…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-224 Benefits when serving past mandatory retirement age
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(a) Notwithstanding § 24-8-215 regarding mandatory retirement under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for any judge or justice upon reaching seventy (70) years of age or any other law to the contrary, any judge or justice covered under the system who served continuously for…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-225 Limitation on benefit enhancement — Acts 1997, No. 926
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(a) No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-8-214 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 § 24-8-214 shall be impl…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-226 Minimum benefits
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(1) The following minimum benefits shall apply to any plan based only on actual service under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System:(1) The annual minimum disability benefit shall be equal to twenty-five and six-tenths percent (25.6%) of the annual salary of the judge or justic…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-227 Definition
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Unless the context requires otherwise, any listing of judges or justices in this subchapter and § 24-8-701 et seq. shall include all judges and justices in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-228 Proposals to establish or revise benefits
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(a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall present to the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs information concerning the statutory authority and actuarial appropriateness of proposed board actions to establish or revis…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-229 Effective date of survivor benefits
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The effective date of monthly benefits payable to a survivor of a deceased member or a survivor of a deceased retiree under §§ 24-8-218 and 24-8-219 is the first day of the calendar month next following the month in which the member or retiree died, regardless of when the survivo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-230 Penalty
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A person who knowingly makes a material false statement or who materially falsifies or permits to be materially falsified any record in an attempt to defraud the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System as the result of such an act upon conviction is guilty of a Class D felony in acco…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-301 Subchapter cumulative
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This subchapter shall not repeal existing laws of this state relating to the retirement of municipal court judges and municipal court clerks but shall be cumulative thereto, specifically to §§ 24-8-401 and 24-8-403 — 24-8-408, and acts amendatory thereof. It shall in no manner af…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-302 Board of trustees
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(a) There is created in cities of the first class or cities of the second class a board of trustees which shall consist of the mayor, city clerk, city treasurer, city health officer, and municipal judges of the city. (b) The board shall receive and administer the funds collected …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-303 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 24-8-303Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-304 Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies
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(a) All payments of retirement benefits under this subchapter shall be payable semimonthly. (b) (1) In case the fund established by this subchapter should ever become deficient to pay retirement benefits due any persons under this subchapter, the city treasurer shall verify the d…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-305 Entitlement to benefits generally
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(a) Any judge, licensed to practice law, of a municipal court established in any county and any clerk of such a municipal court appointed by the judges thereof shall be entitled to the benefits prescribed in this subchapter for such judges and clerks. (b) Any judge of a municipal…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-306 Eligibility for benefits — Regular and disability retirement — Surviving spouses' rights
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(a) A judge of a municipal court upon reaching sixty-eight (68) years of age and having served for a minimum of seven (7) years immediately prior to retirement may retire. (b) (1) If incapacitating illness or disability should occur during any term for which a judge has been elec…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-307 Eligibility for benefits — Cities of the first class or cities of the second class
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(a) (1) Upon the approval of a majority of the city council or the board of directors of a city of the first class or a city of the second class, and of the county quorum court if county funds are used to partially pay the salary of the judge of the municipal court, any judge of …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-308 Eligibility for benefits — Twenty years of service
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(a) (1) Any judge of a municipal court to which this subchapter applies who shall have served at least twenty (20) years in office as municipal judge, irrespective of age, shall be eligible to receive retirement benefits provided by this subchapter.(2) If incapacitating illness o…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-309 Eligibility for benefits — Sixteen years of service as judge and city attorney
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Upon the approval of the governing body of the municipality and of the county quorum court if county funds are used to partially pay the salary of the judge of the municipal court, any judge of a municipal court who has served or who shall serve at least twelve (12) years in offi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-310 Eligibility for benefits — Judge unlicensed to practice law
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(a) Any judge of a municipal court who is not licensed to practice law, who has served at least twenty (20) years as municipal judge or police judge, and who resigns, retires, or is succeeded in office shall receive retirement benefits upon attaining sixty (60) years of age. (b) …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-311 Eligibility for benefits — Clerks
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(a) (1) Any clerk of a municipal court to which this subchapter applies, appointed by the judges of the court, shall be eligible to receive retirement benefits provided by this subchapter who:(A) Attains sixty (60) years of age and has served in office as clerk for at least ten (…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-312 Right of transfer from or purchase of credit in Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or reciprocal system
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(a) (1) A judge of a municipal court and a clerk of a municipal court who, on March 23, 1973, were covered by the provisions of the Municipal Section of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall, prior to January 1, 1982, make an election in writing as to whether to …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-313 Vote to pay benefits to certain clerks and spouses of judges
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(a) Upon a three-fourths (¾) vote of the board of trustees established under § 24-8-302, the fund established under § 24-8-301 et seq. may pay retirement benefits due the following persons:(1) Former municipal court clerks who retired under retirement laws effective prior to Marc…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-314 Municipal judge filling partial term, etc
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(a) Any judge of a municipal court who was elected countywide to a partial term left vacant by the death of the former judge and who shall have completed the same and subsequently shall have been elected to and completed four (4) consecutive four-year terms and shall at the time …
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-315 Multicounty districts — Options
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(a) The quorum court of any county which is divided into two (2) districts and has two (2) county seats and in which the municipal court is funded primarily by the county shall have the option to provide retirement benefits for the municipal court judge and the municipal court cl…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-316 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 24-8-316Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-317 Funding for retirement benefits
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(a) (1) After the repeal of § 24-8-303 providing for the levy of court costs to fund the municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund, a municipality having provided for retirement benefits for municipal court judges and court clerks in accordance with this subchapter shall co…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-318 Additional funding sources for retirement benefits
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(a) In addition to the funds for the municipal court judges and clerk retirement fund provided for by § 16-10-308(a)-(d), if the city council or quorum court determines by actuarial valuation that funding is inadequate to meet the financial objective of paying for current and any…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-319 Benefits
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(1) 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…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-320 Municipal Court Retirement Transition Group
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(a) Currently, the municipal judges and court clerks in Arkansas are covered under numerous and separate retirement plans run independently by each municipal government. Under Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 80, all municipal courts in existence shall be known as district courts…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-321 Funds closed
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(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.
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-401 Board of trustees
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(a) (1) In cities in a county having a population of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) or more, in which county there are two (2) or more municipal courts with a judge of a municipal court licensed to practice law, there is created a board of trustees which shall consist of th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-402 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 24-8-402Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-403 Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies for any judge of municipal court — Proration upon insufficiency of fund for any county municipal judge
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(a) All payments of retirement benefits under this subchapter shall be payable semimonthly. (b) (1) (A) In case the fund established by this subchapter should ever become deficient to pay retirement benefits due any person under this subchapter, the city treasurer shall verify th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-404 Entitlement to benefits generally
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Any judge of a municipal court or county municipal court, licensed to practice law, established in any county having a population of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) or more, according to the most recent federal census, in which county there are two (2) or more municipal cour…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-405 Eligibility for benefits — Regular and disability retirement — Surviving spouses’ rights
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(a) A judge of a municipal court upon reaching sixty-eight (68) years of age and having served for a minimum of seven (7) years immediately prior to retirement may retire. (b) (1) If incapacitating illness or disability should occur during any term to which a judge has been elect…
Ark. Code Ann. § 24-8-406 Eligibility for benefits for any judge of municipal court or county municipal court prior to 1995 — Eligibility for benefits for county municipal judge after 1995
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(a) (1) Any judge of a municipal court or county municipal court prior to January 1, 1995, to which this subchapter applies who shall attain fifty (50) years of age and who shall have served at least sixteen (16) years in office as municipal judge, or at least sixteen (16) years …