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AR Code § 24-8-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-217. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement

 (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 during any term for which the judge has been elected.  (b) The three-year service requirement shall only apply to judges elected after July 1, 1983.  (c)  (1) A judgment of disability should not be granted by the board until it is reasonably assured of a judge's permanent physical or mental incapacity to perform the duties of his or her judicial office.  (2) The board should act only upon proper certification of incapacity by two (2) or more physicians.
AR Code § 24-8-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-219. Rights of surviving unremarried spouses of certain judges

 (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 longer, who is not now receiving, or entitled to receive, survivors' benefits under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be entitled to receive survivors' benefits under the system upon meeting the qualifications therefor and otherwise complying with the provisions of this section.  (b)  (1) Any person desiring to apply for and draw benefits provided for in this section shall make application to the Auditor of State.  (2) The application shall be supported and accompanied by proof satisfactory to the Auditor of State that the applicant is an unmarried spouse, sixty-five (65) years of age or older, of a person who served either on the Supreme Court, as a judge of the Court of Appeals, or as a circuit or chancery judge for a period of eight (8) years or longer, and that the applicant was married to the deceased justice or judge for at least five (5) years, was married to him or her at the time of his or her death, and was living with him or her in marriage at the time of his or her death.    (c) Upon receipt of the application and proof, the Auditor of State shall determine the total amount of compensation received by the deceased judge subsequent to July 1, 1953, and shall compute four percent (4%) of that amount as the amount the applicant shall pay to the Auditor of State if the applicant desires to qualify for survivor benefits under the system as permitted in this section.  (d) The Auditor of State shall also determine the amount which would have been paid to the applicant had the deceased spouse been qualified under the system.  (e)  (1) The Auditor of State shall credit the amount as determined in subsection (d) of this section against the amount which has been computed as the four-percent amount which the applicant is required to pay under subsection (c) of this section.  (2) The applicant shall be required to pay to the Auditor of State only the amount by which the four-percent figure exceeds the credit.  (3) This payment shall be deposited into the State Survivor's Account by the Auditor of State.    (f) Upon payment of the adjusted amount as required and prescribed in this section, if payment is due after application of credits, the applicant shall be entitled to draw survivors' benefits as prescribed in the system from the first day of the month following payment of the adjusted amount to the Auditor of State, or from the first day after the accounts are adjusted if no payment is due.  (g) Survivors' benefits provided for in this section shall be paid in the same manner as other survivors' benefits under the system are paid.
AR Code § 24-8-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-220. Restrictions on benefits

 (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 the position last held by the retired or deceased judge at the time of payment of any particular benefit, so that, should salaries of the judicial positions covered by this act be altered, the amount of benefits payable under this act shall be proportionately altered.
AR Code § 24-8-222 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-222. Credited service — Transfer of service as juvenile judge

 (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 administrative body of each of the retirement systems of the intention to 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 all contributions paid by and on behalf of the former juvenile judge, together with six percent (6%) interest compounded from the date of payment; and  (3) Paying into the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System the total contributions which would have been paid, based on the member's current salary, for an equal amount of tenure as a member of this system, less the amount of money transferred from the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.    (b) Upon transferring his or her credited service, the member shall be credited in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System with the same amount of time with which he or she had been previously credited in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service as a juvenile judge.
AR Code § 24-8-223 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-223. Redetermination of benefits

 (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.  (b) The redetermined amount shall be the amount of benefit payable as of the immediately preceding July 1 increased by three percent (3%).  (c) This method of redetermination of the amount of the retirement benefits shall be applicable to any judge first elected after July 1, 1983.
AR Code § 24-8-224 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-224. Benefits when serving past mandatory retirement age

 (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 at least sixteen (16) years, who is at least eighty (80) years of age, who is not serving on April 19, 1995, and who is ineligible for retirement due to having served beyond the mandatory retirement age shall be entitled to receive retirement benefits under the system.  (b) Retirement benefits under this section shall be retroactive to January 1, 1995, or, for judges or justices retiring after 1995, to January 1 of the year of retirement.
AR Code § 24-8-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-225. Limitation on benefit enhancement — Acts 1997, No. 926

 (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 implemented by any publicly supported system which has unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities being amortized over a period exceeding thirty (30) years until the unfunded actuarial accrued liability is reduced to a level less than the standards prescribed by § 24-1-101 et seq.
AR Code § 24-8-226 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-226. Minimum benefits

 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 justice; and  (2) The annual minimum survivors' benefit shall be an amount equal to seventeen and one hundred fifty-two thousandths percent (17.152%) of the annual salary of the judge or justice.
AR Code § 24-8-227 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-227. Definition

 Unless the context requires otherwise, any listing of judges or justices in § 24-8-201 et seq. and § 24-8-701 et seq. shall include all judges and justices in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.
AR Code § 24-8-228 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Judicial Retirement System|§ 24-8-228. Proposals to establish or revise benefits

 (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 revise a multiplier or any benefit.  (b) An individual who received a refund of contributions from the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System after January 1, 1998, may repay the contributions to the system no later than six (6) months after July 1, 1999.
AR Code § 24-8-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-301. Subchapter cumulative

 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 affect the rights or status of persons receiving or eligible to receive retirement benefits under the provisions of §§ 24-8-401 and 24-8-403 — 24-8-408.
AR Code § 24-8-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-304. Benefits — Frequency of payment — Deficiencies

 (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 deficiency.  (2) This deficiency shall be met by payment from the general funds of the city and proportionately from the general funds of the county if the salary of the judge of the municipal courts in the county is paid partially by the county, in such amount as may be necessary to continue the timely payment of retirement benefits to the persons entitled thereto.  (3) If funds thereafter accruing under this subchapter accumulate to become sufficient for the payment of benefits, then no further payment shall be made from the general funds of the city unless and until the fund provided by this subchapter should again become deficient and the deficiency is verified by the city treasurer.
AR Code § 24-8-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-305. Entitlement to benefits generally

 (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 court who is not licensed to practice law shall be entitled to the benefits prescribed in § 24-8-310.
AR Code § 24-8-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-308. Eligibility for benefits — Twenty years of service

 (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 or disability should occur during the final term of qualifications under these provisions, then the judge so elected shall be eligible at one-half (½) pay as provided in subsection (b) of this section.  (3) On the death of a municipal judge leaving a surviving spouse who had been married to and living with the judge for at least ten (10) years, the surviving spouse shall be eligible to apply for and shall receive until his or her death or remarriage, benefits as authorized in this subdivision (a)(3) in an amount equal to one-half (½) the retirement benefits to which the deceased judge would have been entitled on the date of his or her death.    (b) If the judge resigns, retires from office, or is succeeded in office by another judge, then he or she shall receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-half (½) of the salary payable to him or her at the time of his or her resignation, retirement, or succession in office.
AR Code § 24-8-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-309. Eligibility for benefits — Sixteen years of service as judge and city attorney

 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 office as municipal judge and who has also served four (4) years or more as city attorney in the same city shall, upon attaining age sixty-five (65), receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-half (½) of the salary payable to him or her at the time of his or her resignation, retirement, or succession in office.
AR Code § 24-8-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-310. Eligibility for benefits — Judge unlicensed to practice law

 (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 age sixty (60).  (b) These benefits shall continue for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-fourth (¼) of the salary payable to him or her at the time he or she resigned, retired, or was succeeded in office.
AR Code § 24-8-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-311. Eligibility for benefits — Clerks

 (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 age sixty (60) and has served in office as clerk for at least ten (10) years; or  (B) Has served in office for at least twenty (20) years irrespective of age.    (2) If the clerk resigns, retires from office, or is succeeded in office by another clerk, the clerk shall receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-half (½) of the salary payable to the clerk at the time of resignation, retirement, or succession in office.  (3) After the death of the clerk, the surviving spouse of a qualifying court clerk shall be entitled to continue to receive the retirement benefits under this subchapter until the surviving spouse dies or remarries.    (b) Upon the approval of the governing body of the municipality and following a determination of the actuarial soundness of the fund from which the benefits shall be paid, any court clerk of a municipal court who upon reaching age sixty-eight (68) will have served for a minimum of seven (7) years immediately prior to severance from employment may retire with a reduced benefit in an amount equal to seven-tenths (0.7) of the benefits payable under subsection (a) of this section.  (c)  (1) The board of trustees by resolution may provide retirement benefits to a clerk who is incapacitated due to illness or disability and has served for a minimum of seven (7) years.  (2) The clerk may retire with a reduced benefit in an amount equal to seven-tenths (0.7) of the benefits payable under subsection (a) of this section.
AR Code § 24-8-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-313. Vote to pay benefits to certain clerks and spouses of judges

 (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 March 23, 1973, and whose retirement benefits were paid from the city general fund; and  (2) The surviving spouse of a municipal judge who retired under retirement laws effective prior to March 23, 1973, and whose retirement benefits were paid from the city general fund.    (b) This section shall not repeal existing laws of this state relating to the retirement of municipal court judges and municipal court clerks but shall be cumulative to those laws. It shall in no manner affect the right or status of persons receiving or eligible to receive retirement benefits under § 24-8-301 et seq. or under retirement laws effective prior to March 23, 1973.  (c) In case the fund established by § 24-8-301 et seq. should ever be or become deficient to pay retirement benefits due any person or persons under § 24-8-301 et seq. and those benefits due under this section, the treasurer of the board of trustees shall verify the deficiency, which shall be met by payment from the general funds of the city and proportionately from the general funds of the county if the salary of the judge and the clerk is paid partially by the county until such time as the fund accumulates funds sufficient to pay benefits.
AR Code § 24-8-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-314. Municipal judge filling partial term, etc

 (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 of his or her retirement have attained age fifty (50), upon retirement shall receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his or her natural life in an amount equal to one-half (½) of the salary payable to him or her at the time of his or her retirement.  (b) Upon his or her death, his or her surviving spouse shall be entitled for the remainder of his or her natural life, or until he or she remarries, benefits equal to one-half (½) of the retirement benefits which the deceased judge was receiving at the time of his or her death.
AR Code § 24-8-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-317. Funding for retirement benefits

 (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 continue to provide funds for the retirement benefits in that subchapter in accordance with the funding provisions of § 16-10-308(a)-(d), as long as those provisions allow.  (2) Those funds and any additional funds provided for by this section and § 24-8-318, if levied by the municipality, shall be to provide for the retirement benefits in that subchapter.    (b) The funds for the municipal court judge and clerk retirement fund provided for by § 16-10-308(a)-(d) and any additional funds for municipal court judge and court clerk retirement benefits provided for by this section and § 24-8-318, if levied by the municipality, shall be paid to the city treasurer, who shall place them into an account as provided for in this subchapter.
AR Code § 24-8-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees|Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally|§ 24-8-318. Additional funding sources for retirement benefits

 (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 projected retirement funding obligations, a municipality or county may also add to retirement funding by city ordinance or county ordinance any or all of the following moneys:  (1)  (A) Up to five percent (5%) of all fines and forfeitures collected by the district court or by the city or county for violations of municipal ordinances, county ordinances, or state laws.  (B) This five percent (5%) shall not be taken from:  (i) Court costs collected; and  (ii) Fines and forfeitures collected for violations of state laws that are designated by law as payable to state agencies or entities;      (2) An annual contribution from the city's general fund in an amount recommended by actuarial valuation to meet its projected financial obligation; and  (3) A one-time or occasional lump-sum payment from the city's general fund in an amount determined by the city's governing body, along with any payments or contributions from the county when the city and county share expenses and costs of a countywide court.    (b) All ordinances passed pursuant to this section shall remain in full force and effect.