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24-4-519. Current service credit — Nonuniformed employees.
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24-4-519. Current service credit — Nonuniformed employees.
(a)(1)(A) A person who on December 31, 1998, was a nonuniformed employee of a municipality that participates in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a former nonuniformed employee of a municipality that participates in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System who was an active member of the system on December 31, 1998, may waive all rights to receive benefits under § 24-12-101 et seq. and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service rendered as a paid nonuniformed employee of the municipality.
(B) A former nonuniformed employee of a municipality or municipalities who had at least six (6) years of service as a nonuniformed employee, ten (10) years of service as a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a reciprocal system as defined by § 24-2-401, and is in a position of policy-making authority for a state agency may waive all rights to receive benefits for the service under any retirement plan and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service rendered as a paid nonuniformed employee of the municipality or municipalities.
(C) A former nonuniformed employee whose employment was with a municipality not participating in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, whose employment accrued before January 1, 1970, and who was an active member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a reciprocal system as defined by § 24-2-401 on December 31, 1998, may waive all rights to receive benefits under § 24-12-101 et seq., and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for servic
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-4-519
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24-4-519. Current service credit — Nonuniformed employees.
(a)(1)(A) A person who on December 31, 1998, was a nonuniformed employee of a municipality that participates in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a former nonuniformed employee of a municipality that participates in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System who was an active member of the system on December 31, 1998, may waive all rights to receive benefits under § 24-12-101 et seq. and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service rendered as a paid nonuniformed employee of the municipality.
(B) A former nonuniformed employee of a municipality or municipalities who had at least six (6) years of service as a nonuniformed employee, ten (10) years of service as a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a reciprocal system as defined by § 24-2-401, and is in a position of policy-making authority for a state agency may waive all rights to receive benefits for the service under any retirement plan and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service rendered as a paid nonuniformed employee of the municipality or municipalities.
(C) A former nonuniformed employee whose employment was with a municipality not participating in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, whose employment accrued before January 1, 1970, and who was an active member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or a reciprocal system as defined by § 24-2-401 on December 31, 1998, may waive all rights to receive benefits under § 24-12-101 et seq., and apply for and receive current service credit in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System for service rendered as a paid nonuniformed employee of the municipality.
(2) The waiver must be filed with the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System and with the governing body of the municipality.
(b) The current or former paid nonuniformed employee shall receive credit only if the employee or the municipality pays or causes to be paid to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Fund:
(1) All necessary employee contributions at the rate and on the compensation that would have been paid had the employee been a member during that time;
(2) All employer contributions based on the employer normal cost from the most recently completed regular annual actuarial valuation and the compensation that would have been paid had he or she been a member during that time; and
(3) Regular interest on the employee and employer contributions computed from the date the service was rendered to the date the payment is received by the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(c) The employer's contributions and employees' contributions, if applicable, shall be transmitted to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System in the form and manner, together with the supporting data, as the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall prescribe from time to time.
(d) The governing body of the municipality may pay the employer contributions and employee contributions, if applicable, on behalf of the employee for services rendered.
(e) “Paid nonuniformed employees” has the same meaning as provided by § 24-12-101.
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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.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-12-101
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24-2-401. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Deferred retirement option plan” means an option for retirement under a reciprocal system whereby the retirement system members, in lieu of terminating employment, can continue with employment with covered employers and can accept a service retirement benefit pursuant to deferred retirement option plan provisions in § 24-7-1301 et seq. for the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System or for any other deferred retirement option plan which might be created by, or authorized for creation by, law under a reciprocal system;
(2) “Public safety service covered by the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System” means service as a public safety member as defined in § 24-4-101(34);
(3) “Reciprocal system” means:
(A) The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System in operation June 30, 1957, and continued by §§ 24-7-202 — 24-7-205, 24-7-301 — 24-7-305, 24-7-401 — 24-7-411, 24-7-501, 24-7-502, 24-7-601 — 24-7-604, 24-7-606, 24-7-701, 24-7-702, 24-7-704 — 24-7-713, 24-7-715, and 24-7-716;
(B) The Arkansas State Highway Employees' Retirement System, established by § 24-5-103;
(C) The Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, established by § 24-4-103;
(D) The State Police Retirement System, established by § 24-6-203;
(E) The Arkansas Judicial Retirement System, established by § 24-8-201 et seq.;
(F) An alternate retirement plan for:
(i) A college, university, or the Division of Higher Education provided for under § 24-7-801 et seq.; or
(ii) A vocational-technical school or the Division of Career and Technical Education, the Adult Education Section, and the Office of Skills Development, provided for under § 24-7-901 et seq.; or
(G) The Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System provided for under § 24-10-101
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-2-401
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 24-2-401. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.