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AR Code § 24-7-1604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 7 - Retirement of Employees of Schools and Educational Institutions|Subchapter 16 - Arkansas Teacher Retirement System — Optional Participation by Employees of Institutions of Higher Education|§ 24-7-1604. Coverage for employees enrolled in Arkansas Teacher Retirement System before July 1, 2011

 (a) Beginning July 1, 2011, all current employees of a nonmandatory employer that are current members of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System may continue membership and continue to accrue service credit in the system without any change in participation in the system if:  (1) The employee is:  (A) Part-time and the employee continues to provide services in each fiscal year at approximately the same level of service; or  (B) Full-time and the employee continues to provide services in each fiscal year;    (2) The nonmandatory employer chooses to continue reporting service to the system for the employee;  (3) The nonmandatory employer determines that the employee will contribute at least part-time services in subsequent months of the fiscal year if services are not rendered throughout the fiscal year;  (4) The nonmandatory employer remits contributions to the system on behalf of the employee during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and each fiscal year thereafter; and  (5) The employee's service with the nonmandatory employer is not terminated.    (b) The nonmandatory employer shall remit employer contributions under § 24-7-401 et seq. for an employee under this section and shall be subject to the rights and obligations of an employer under the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Act.  (c) The employee under this section shall remit employee contributions under § 24-7-406 et seq. and shall be subject to the rights and obligations of an employee under the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Act.  (d) The nonmandatory employer shall provide information in a format requested by the system to allow the system to monitor and track all employees who participate in the system.
AR Code § 24-7-1606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 7 - Retirement of Employees of Schools and Educational Institutions|Subchapter 16 - Arkansas Teacher Retirement System — Optional Participation by Employees of Institutions of Higher Education|§ 24-7-1606. Concurrent participation and certain salary credit prohibited

 (a) A benefits-eligible employee shall not participate in an alternate retirement plan and continue to accrue service credit with the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System.  (b) If a benefits-eligible employee is first employed by a nonmandatory employer or PSHE employer after July 1, 2011, and is concurrently employed by another retirement system employer, all separate days of service shall count for service credit, but only the highest salary of the concurrent retirement system employer shall count to determine final average salary.
AR Code § 24-7-1607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 7 - Retirement of Employees of Schools and Educational Institutions|Subchapter 16 - Arkansas Teacher Retirement System — Optional Participation by Employees of Institutions of Higher Education|§ 24-7-1607. Duties and responsibilities of board

 The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System may promulgate rules necessary to carry out this subchapter.
AR Code § 24-8-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-8-101. Previously retired justice

 (a) Any judge or justice under the age of seventy (70) who is receiving retirement benefits under § 24-8-201 et seq. or § 24-8-701 et seq., who is elected or appointed to any judicial office in this state, and who foregoes receipt of retirement benefits while serving in the judicial office shall be entitled to resume receiving his or her previous retirement benefits upon termination of the subsequent service.  (b) If at the time of the initial retirement the judge or justice was entitled to the benefits of the escalator clause provided in § 24-8-218(c)(1) or postretirement benefits provided in § 24-8-223 or § 24-8-717, the judge or justice and the judge's or justice's survivors shall again be entitled to the benefits upon the termination of any such subsequent judicial service.
AR Code § 24-8-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-201. Public policy

 It is declared to be the state's public policy that chancery and circuit court judges and justices of the Supreme Court may retire or be retired when that course appears to be in the best interest of the official concerned and for the public welfare. Factors suggesting the desirability of retirement are physical disability, advanced age, or other infirmities calculated to materially impair usefulness. In addition, it is the public policy of the state to provide sufficient retirement and survivors' benefits for the chancery and circuit court judges and justices of the Supreme Court of the state to attract and retain highly capable members of the legal profession for service in the state judiciary.
AR Code § 24-8-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-202. Applicability

 The provisions of this act shall not be retroactive but shall extend benefits from the time of its passage. It shall also apply to judges now living who retired prior to the passage of this act and to the survivors of those judges.
AR Code § 24-8-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-203. Board of trustees

 (a) The administration and control of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be vested in a board known as the “Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System”.  (b)  (1) The members of the board shall consist of five (5) persons appointed by the Arkansas Judicial Council.  (2) The members shall serve at the pleasure of the council.  (3) One (1) of the members shall be elected by the board to serve as chair.    (c) The duties of the board shall be:  (1) To make all rules necessary and proper for carrying out the provisions of this section;  (2) To provide administrative direction and control of the executive director and staff as may from time to time be required;  (3) To appoint an actuary, or firm of actuaries, to be a technical advisor to the board on matters regarding the operation of the system on an actuarial basis. The actuary shall perform such duties as are required by him or her under this subdivision (c)(3) and as are from time to time required by the board;  (4) To appoint professional investment counsel to be the board's investment advisor or money manager;  (5) To serve without pay but may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with § 25-16-901 et seq.; and  (6) To do any and all things necessary for the proper execution of this section.    (d) The board shall meet at least quarterly and at other times as necessary at the call of the chair.
AR Code § 24-8-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-204. Administration

 (a)  (1) The executive director and administrative staff of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall be the executive director and administrative staff of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.  (2) All administrative records of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be maintained within the administrative offices of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.    (b)  (1) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall continue to exercise the powers, functions, and duties previously exercised.  (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish or otherwise alter the powers, functions, and duties of the board.    (c) All costs of administering the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be paid from the Judges Retirement Fund, but no payment for such expenses shall be made unless authorized by the board.
AR Code § 24-8-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-205. Trust fund

 (a) In addition to the Judges Retirement Fund in the State Treasury, a bank trust fund or funds may be established and maintained in a federally insured depository institution designated by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.  (b) The board shall be the trustees of the funds, subject to the other provisions of this section, and may employ professional investment counsel in either an advisory capacity only or as a money manager with authority to execute transactions.  (c) The funds of the system shall be invested and reinvested in accordance with the following procedure:  (1) From time to time, the board shall formulate the policy to be followed in future investment activity;  (2) If the board employs investment counsel with authority to execute transactions, the counsel or money manager shall have full power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, or dispose of any of the moneys or investments of the system pursuant to the provisions of this section and in accordance with the current investment policy filed with the board;  (3) At least semiannually, the investment counsel shall file with the board a written report setting forth, for the period since its last report, all investments purchased and sold, all receipts and disbursements, and any other transactions concerning system moneys;  (4) At each regular meeting, the board shall examine each written report received from the investment counsel since the last regular meeting;  (5) Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, from time to time the board may direct a specific investment activity and shall be fully responsible for the direction; and  (6) Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, investment activity shall be subject to the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions imposed by law upon state public employee retirement plans in the making and disposing of their investments.    (d) A decision on whether to invest, not invest, or withdraw from investment the funds of the system shall not be based on a consideration that the location of the investment, fund, company, or any other type of investment vehicle is in the State of Israel.
AR Code § 24-8-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-206. Annual actuarial valuation

 An actuarial valuation shall be made annually to determine how well the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System is meeting the financial objectives applicable to all state-supported retirement systems.
AR Code § 24-8-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-207. Membership generally — Prior service credit

 (a) All chancery judges, circuit judges, judges of the Court of Appeals and justices of the Supreme Court, whether elected or appointed to office, shall participate in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.  (b) Any active member who did not become a member at the time of his or her initial election or appointment may acquire prior service credit by paying into the system all contributions, together with interest, that would have been paid if he or she had been a member of the system from the time he or she took office until he or she became enrolled.
AR Code § 24-8-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-209. Contributions — Members — Refund

 (a) The contribution of each member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be six percent (6%) of each member's annual salary.  (b) In the event a judge ceases to be a member prior to qualifying for retirement benefits, he or she shall be entitled to a refund of all contributions paid by him or her into the system.  (c)  (1) For purposes of deferring federal and state income tax and pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 414 (h)(2), as adopted by § 26-51-414, the state shall pick up the members' contributions to the judicial retirement fund as required by this section and payable on or after January 1, 1997.  (2) Member contributions picked up by the state shall be paid from the same source of funds used for the payment of salary to a member. A deduction shall be made from each member's salary, equal to the amount of the member's contribution picked up by the employer. For all other purposes, member contributions picked up by the state shall be considered member contributions.  (3) The provisions of subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) of this section providing for the state to pay the member's contributions for tax deferral under the Internal Revenue Code, § 26-51-414(h), shall be effective from and retroactive to January 1, 1997.
AR Code § 24-8-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-210. Contributions — State

 (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 Retirement Fund from the Constitutional Officers Fund and the State Central Services Fund in an amount determined by computing the dollar amount required based on the actuarially determined employer rate in the most recent annual actuarial valuation and subtracting from that amount the statutory contribution amount specified in subsection (a) of this section, and further, reduced by the amount of the court cost revenue transferred to the Judges Retirement Fund from the State Administration of Justice Fund in accordance with § 16-10-310.
AR Code § 24-8-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-211. Contributions — Cessation upon retirement

 (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 continue or recommence payment of the six-percent (6%) contribution into the system to accrue the maximum retirement benefit provided under § 24-8-218.
AR Code § 24-8-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-212. Credited service — Transfer of service as municipal judge

 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 Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by:   (1) Notifying, in writing, the administrative body of each retirement plan of his or her intention to transfer his or her tenure;  (2) Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System or appropriate administrative body of his or her retirement system to transfer to the system any sums of money paid for his or her retirement to the retirement fund or system by the municipal judge and, at the option of the city council or board of directors, to transfer to the system the court costs collected during his or her tenure as municipal judge; and  (3)  (A) Paying into the system an amount of money he or she would have paid into the system for an equal amount of tenure as a judge of the court to which he or she has been elected, less the amount of money from his or her present retirement system as authorized in this section.  (B) Upon transferring the credited service from his or her present retirement fund or system, the person shall be given credited service in the system for an equal number of years of credited service for which he or she has qualified under any other plan or system to which he or she has belonged by reason of his or her service as municipal judge.
AR Code § 24-8-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-213. Credited service — Transfer of fourteen years' service as prosecuting attorney

 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, chancery judge, or justice of the Supreme Court, is authorized to transfer his or her credited service in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by:   (1) Notifying, in writing, the administrative body of each of the retirement plans of his or her intention to so transfer his or her tenure;  (2) Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System to transfer to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System any sums of money paid for his or her retirement to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System by the elected prosecuting attorney; and  (3)  (A) Paying into the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System an amount of money he or she would have paid into the system for an equal amount of tenure as a judge of the court to which he or she has been elected, less the amount of money transferred from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System as authorized in this section.  (B) Upon transferring the credited service from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, the person shall be given credited service in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for an equal number of years of credited service for which he or she has qualified under the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System as an elected prosecuting attorney.
AR Code § 24-8-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-214. Credited service — Transfer of four years' service as prosecuting attorney

 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 judge, chancery judge, circuit-chancery judge, or justice of the Supreme Court, is authorized to transfer his or her credited service in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by:   (1) Notifying, in writing, the administrative body of each of the retirement plans of his or her intention to so transfer his or her tenure;  (2) Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System to transfer to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System any sums of money paid for his or her retirement to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System by the elected prosecuting attorney; and  (3)  (A) Paying into the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System an amount of money he or she would have paid into the system for an equal amount of tenure as a judge of the court to which he or she has been elected, less the amount of money transferred from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System as authorized in this section.  (B) Upon transferring the credited service from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, the person shall be given credited service in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for an equal number of years of credited service for which he or she has qualified under the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System as an elected prosecuting attorney.
AR Code § 24-8-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-215. Eligibility for benefits — Retirement generally

 (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 who has a minimum of twenty (20) years of credited service may retire regardless of age, and any judge or justice who has served at least fourteen (14) years shall be eligible for benefits upon reaching age sixty-five (65).  (c)  (1) A judge or justice who is not seventy (70) years of age on the date on which he or she is elected to a term of office may complete the term without forfeiting his or her rights to retirement benefits under this section.  (2)  (A) Any judge or justice who is not eligible to retire at age seventy (70) may continue to serve as judge until the completion of the term of office in which he or she receives sufficient credited service to retire without losing his or her retirement benefits.  (B) The judge or justice shall lose all retirement benefits if he or she serves beyond the end of the term needed to get sufficient credited service to retire.    (3)  (A) Otherwise, judges or justices must retire by their seventieth birthday or lose their retirement benefits.  (B) However, any active judge or justice who was serving prior to July 1, 1965, may continue to serve until any age and shall, upon retirement, be eligible to receive retirement benefits.      (d) In all cases of age and service retirement for judges or justices elected after July 1, 1983, the member must have a minimum of eight (8) years of actual service as a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the circuit or chancery courts or of the Court of Appeals.  (e) The provisions of this section shall be accumulative to all present laws pertaining to the retirement of judges of the circuit and chancery courts and of justices of the Supreme Court and shall in no way repeal, amend, or modify such laws except as otherwise specifically provided in this section.
AR Code § 24-8-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-216. Eligibility for benefits — Early retirement

 (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 any time after reaching age sixty-two (62) and before reaching age sixty-five (65).  (b) The retirement benefits of any circuit or chancery judge electing to retire before age sixty-five (65) shall be reduced six percent (6%) for each full year and proportionately for any part of a year that the judge retires before reaching age sixty-five (65).