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AR Code § 24-11-827 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds|Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds|§ 24-11-827. Retired member returning to active status

 (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 or her for the period of the reemployment, and he or she shall make member contributions to the firemen's relief and pension fund as if he or she were an active member during the reemployment.  (b) If reemployment terminates before the retirant has rendered sufficient reemployment to accumulate at least three (3) years of credited service had he or she been an active member during the reemployment, the payment of his or her pension shall resume upon termination, under the form of payment in force at the beginning of reemployment and in an amount as it would be had he or she not been reemployed.  (c) If reemployment continues until the retirant has rendered sufficient reemployment to accumulate at least three (3) years of credited service, then effective upon completion of reemployment, his or her retirement shall be recalculated to account for the additional accrued service credit and salary.
AR Code § 24-11-829 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds|Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds|§ 24-11-829. Increase in surviving spouse benefits

 (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 most recent year shall increase surviving spouse benefits payable from the firemen's relief and pension fund to the amount of the pension received by the retired firefighter at the time of his or her death, or the amount of the pension to which the member would have been entitled on the day he or she died had he or she been retired.  (b) The board shall direct a monthly pension in the increased amount effective on or before August 1, 1993.
AR Code § 24-11-832 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds|Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds|§ 24-11-832. Applicability of § 24-11-820

 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.
AR Code § 24-11-833 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds|Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds|§ 24-11-833. Fire-related service

 (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 fire-related employment service up to a maximum of three (3) years of credited service, provided that the member contributes to the system an amount as the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board shall determine would be actuarially equivalent to the value of the service purchased.  (b) The board shall have the final power to determine the value of the service purchased.  (c) Service credit purchased under this section may be used to determine the member's total credited service for the amount upon retirement and shall not be used to determine his or her final average pay for service under the system.  (d) As used in this section, “fire-related service” means service with a municipality that has firefighters covered under a firemen's relief and pension fund in a job or in a paid position within a covered fire department or fire department where the person performs duties that are related to the delivery of fire services, including service such as a fire department radio dispatcher or other similar service.
AR Code § 24-11-834 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds|Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds|§ 24-11-834. Former military service credit purchase

 (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 employment covered by the pension fund, if the member:  (1) Received an honorable discharge from the armed forces;  (2) Has at least twenty (20) years of actual service in the pension fund; and  (3)  (A) Contributes to the pension fund an amount that is the actuarial equivalent of the value of the credited service to be purchased.  (B) The actuarial equivalent is of the time of the purchase of the credited service and shall be determined by the actuary for the Arkansas Fire and Police Pension Review Board or by the actuary for the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System for a pension fund under administration by the system.      (b) The board of trustees of the firemen's relief and pension fund shall make the final determination as to the:  (1) Length of purchased service credit;  (2) Amount of regular interest to be charged; and  (3) Manner in which payment is made to the pension fund.    (c) Service credit purchased under this section shall be used to determine the member's total credited service under the pension fund but shall not be used to determine his or her final average pay under the pension fund.
AR Code § 24-12-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-101. Definitions

 As used in this act, “paid nonuniformed employees”:   (1) Means the mayor, city attorney, city treasurer, city clerk, or municipal judge of any city to which this act is applicable when the mayor, city attorney, city treasurer, city clerk, or municipal judge elects to be so included; and  (2) May include the other full-time paid nonuniformed employees of the city.
AR Code § 24-12-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-102. Applicability

 This act shall not apply to any city having a paid nonuniformed employees' pension and relief fund prior to February 23, 1949.
AR Code § 24-12-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-103. Vote to effect act

 (a) The provisions of this act shall be suspended and inoperative in any city affected by the provisions of the act until made available by a vote favorable thereto of the majority of the qualified electors of the cities participating in any election on the question at a special election called for the purpose of voting on the question.  (b) The election may be held in connection with the first general city election following the passage and approval of this act, but the failure to submit or the failure to adopt at the city or other election shall not bar, abridge, or defeat the right of submission at any subsequent election.  (c) Upon the filing with the county board of election commissioners not later than ninety (90) days before the date of the election requested in a petition signed by twenty (20) or more qualified electors of the city affected and praying that the question of paid nonuniformed employees' pensions and the levying of a tax therefor, not exceeding one and one-half (1½) mills, be submitted, it shall be the duty of the county board of election commissioners to call the election in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq.  (d) If for any reason the question is not voted upon at the next general city election after the passage and approval of this act, the question may be submitted at any other general or special election held in the city as provided in this section.  (e) The question on the ballot shall be as follows:    “FOR Paid Nonuniformed Employees pensions and the levying of a mill tax of (amount here designated on ballot not exceeding one and one-half (1½) mills) therefor AGAINST Paid Nonuniformed Employees pensions and the levying of a mill tax of (amount here designated on ballot not exceeding one and one-half (1½) mills) therefor   Click to view form.
AR Code § 24-12-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-104. Tax levy to support fund

 (a) Annually, a tax not to exceed one and one-half (1½) mills on the dollar of all taxable property in cities of the first class and cities of the second class which have paid nonuniformed employees may be levied by a vote of the people as a fund for pensioned, superannuated, and retired paid nonuniformed employees and for the surviving spouses and dependent children of deceased paid nonuniformed employees and dependent parents of deceased employees and to relieve the employees in case of permanent or temporary disability.  (b) At any time that any city in this state shall meet the requirements of this section, then, and in that case, the provisions of this act shall apply to the city.  (c) The fund shall be known as the “pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees” and shall be collected by the sheriffs and collectors as other taxes are collected and by them turned over to the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees, which board is provided for and created in this act.
AR Code § 24-12-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-105. Board of trustees

 (a)  (1) The board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall consist of five (5) members and shall be composed of the mayor, the head of the street department, the city treasurer, who shall be the treasurer of the fund and the general manager of the waterworks, or the superintendent, in the event there is no general manager, who shall be secretary of the board and who shall serve for a period of two (2) years or until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified.  (2) The mayor shall be chair of the board, and the first four (4) members shall elect one (1) other member, who shall be a reputable physician and who shall represent the board of trustees in the examination of any member of the departments upon the claim of disability.  (3) The physician member of the board so selected shall serve for a period of two (2) years or until his or her successor is elected and qualified.    (b) The board shall have the absolute control and management of the funds provided for in this act and of all moneys donated, paid, or assessed for the relief or pension of disabled, superannuated, and retired paid nonuniformed employees, their surviving spouses, and minor children under the age of sixteen (16), or surviving parent solely dependent upon the employee for support.  (c)  (1) The board shall make all necessary rules for its government and the discharge of its duties and shall hear and decide all applications for relief or pensions under this act.  (2) The board's decisions upon all applications, insofar as matters involving the exercise of discretionary powers are involved, shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review or reversal except by the board.    (d) The board shall cause to be kept a record of all its meetings and proceedings.
AR Code § 24-12-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-106. List of retired employees

 (a) There shall be kept in the office of the board of trustees pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees, by the secretary, a book known as the “list of retired paid nonuniformed employees”.  (b) The book shall give the full and complete history and record of action of the board in retiring any and all persons under this act.  (c) The record shall give the name, date of joining the service or department, date of retirement and reason thereof, and the date and finding of the physician of each examination made of disabled employees retired under the provisions of this act.
AR Code § 24-12-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-107. Treasurer as custodian of fund

 (a) The treasurer shall be custodian of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees and shall keep his or her books and accounts concerning the fund in such manner as may be prescribed by the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees.  (b) The books and accounts shall be subject to the inspection of any member of the board or of any of the paid nonuniformed employees.  (c)  (1) Within ten (10) days after assuming his or her duties under this act, the treasurer shall execute a bond to the board with good and sufficient securities and in such penal sum as the board shall direct, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his or her office. He or she shall surrender and deliver to his or her successor all unexpended moneys and all property which may have come into his or her hands as treasurer of the fund.  (2) The bond shall be filed in the office of the board of trustees and in case of a breach of the bond, suit may be brought on the bond in the name of the board or of any person or persons injured by the breach.
AR Code § 24-12-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-108. Deposit of moneys

 The board shall deposit all moneys in the bank selected as the fiscal agent of the city in which it is located, but only if the moneys draw the same rate of interest as the city receives on its deposits. Otherwise, the board shall make its own selection of the bank.
AR Code § 24-12-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-109. Investment

 (a) The board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall have the power to draw sums from its treasury to invest in the name of the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees in interest-bearing bonds of the United States, of the State of Arkansas, or of the city in which the board is located or in a local government joint investment trust pursuant to the Local Government Joint Investment Trust Act, § 19-8-301 et seq.  (b) All securities shall be deposited with the treasurer of the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund and shall be subject to the orders of the board.  (c)  (1) In those pension and relief funds for paid nonuniformed employees in which assets exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the board of trustees may employ:  (A) An investment advisor to invest the assets, subject to the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions imposed by law upon the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System; and  (B) A trustee or custodian to hold the assets.    (2) The investments shall not be limited to interest-bearing bonds.
AR Code § 24-12-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-110. Payments

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, all moneys paid from the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall be paid by the treasurer only upon warrants signed by the chair and countersigned by the secretary thereof.  (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no warrant shall be drawn except by the order of the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees, and interest accruing from the fund, while on deposit or otherwise, shall constitute a part of the fund.  (c) In a pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees in which the board has employed a trustee or custodian under § 24-12-109(c) to hold the assets, the trustee or custodian may pay benefits to persons and beneficiaries entitled to benefits under the fund as directed by the board.
AR Code § 24-12-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-111. Moneys added to fund — Refunds

 (a) There shall be added to the fund pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees the following moneys:  (1) All moneys given or donated to the fund; and  (2) Not less than six percent (6%) of the monthly salary of each employee, to be deducted each month by the city or its proper agency and immediately paid to the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees.    (b) Employers shall contribute to the fund not less than six percent (6%) of the employee's salary.  (c) Both the employees and employers shall contribute to the fund equal amounts of covered payroll.  (d)  (1) Upon leaving employment with the city, any employee shall be entitled to apply for and receive a refund of the aggregate amount withheld from his or her monthly salary during his or her period of employment with the city and paid into the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees of the city.  (2) Upon receiving a refund of the amounts deducted from his or her monthly salary from the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees of the city, the employee shall forfeit his or her credited service as a member of the pension and relief fund and shall not be eligible thereafter to receive any benefits under the provisions of this act for his or her service.
AR Code § 24-12-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-112. Proration upon insufficiency of fund

 If at any time there should not be sufficient money in the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees to pay each person a full amount to which he or she may be entitled, the beneficiaries shall be paid by prorating the fund available among them in accordance with the respective benefits being received by them under this act.
AR Code § 24-12-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-113. Report on condition of fund

 The board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall report to the council, city commissioner, or city clerk of the city on the condition of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees on the first regular meeting in January of each year.
AR Code § 24-12-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-114. Subjection of fund to legal process

 (a) No portion of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees shall at any time be subject to seizure or to be levied on under any process whatsoever for the payment of any claim or debts held against any disabled or retired employee or the surviving spouse, dependent parent, or minor children under sixteen (16) years of age of a deceased or retired employee.  (b) The fund shall be securely held and distributed for the purpose of pensioning the persons mentioned in this act and for no other person or purpose whatsoever.
AR Code § 24-12-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions|Chapter 12 - Local Officers And Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 24-12-115. Benefits — Temporary total disability retirement — Voluntary retirement

 (a) The board of trustees of the pension and relief fund for paid nonuniformed employees, by a majority vote of the members and with the approval of the physician on the board, shall have the power to retire from service any employee who has become temporarily totally disabled while in the performance of his or her duties when it has been certified to the board in writing by the physician on the board that the employee to be retired because of temporary total disability will be incapacitated, either mentally or physically, from the performance of his or her duties as an employee for a period of three (3) months or more.  (b) It shall be mandatory on the board to retire an employee who has performed faithful service as an employee for a period of twenty (20) years at the employee's option or election, to be exercised by making written application therefor, or to retire an employee who has attained the age of sixty (60) and has served as an employee for at least ten (10) years at the employee's option or election, to be exercised by making written application therefor.  (c)  (1) In cases arising under subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the board shall place an employee so retired upon the pension roll at one-half (½) pay.  (2) The minimum monthly pension paid to a retired employee shall not be less than fifty dollars ($50.00) per month regardless of whether the employee's monthly salary shall equal this minimum sum or not.    (d)  (1) No employee shall be retired because of disability from natural causes unless he or she has served as an employee for a period of five (5) years.  (2) No employee shall be retired because of a disability of any nature except upon examination and approval of the physician on the board of trustees.    (e)  (1) If any employee is retired because of any temporary total disability, it shall be his or her duty to have an examination made of himself or herself by the physician on the board at least one (1) time every thirty (30) days, and if he or she shall have recovered from the disability, it shall be the duty of the board to stop payment of the pension and to place the employee back in service.  (2) The time of his or her retirement shall be considered as continuous service in his or her position.  (3) An employee receiving the examination shall pay to the physician a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for the examination so made.