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24-4-729. Conservation district employees.
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24-4-729. Conservation district employees.
(a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System is directed to include within the membership of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, as created by this chapter, all employees of conservation districts organized and operating under the provisions of this chapter.
(b)(1)(A) The effective date of membership of the employees in the system shall be July 1, 1973.
(B) The employees enrolled in the system shall be subject to the rights, privileges, and limitations prescribed in this chapter.
(2) Every such employee shall become a member of the system as a condition of continuing or obtaining employment with any conservation district.
(c) Any employee included within the membership of the system pursuant to this section shall be given credit for service rendered prior to July 1, 1957, as an employee of a public employer, as defined in § 24-4-101, or as an employee of a conservation district organized and operating under this chapter, if the employee was so employed on July 1, 1957, and on July 1, 1973.
(d)(1)(A) Any employee included within the membership of the system by this section who is an employee of a conservation district on July 1, 1973, may apply for and receive current service credit for service rendered as an employee of a public employer, as defined in § 24-4-101, or as an employee of a conservation district from July 1, 1957, to July 1, 1973.
(B) The employee shall receive credit only if the employee pays or causes to be paid to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Fund all necessary contributions, at the rate of four percent (4%) for the employee and four percent (4%) for the employer from July 1, 1957, to July 1, 1967, four percent (4%) for the employee
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-4-729
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24-4-729. Conservation district employees.
(a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System is directed to include within the membership of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, as created by this chapter, all employees of conservation districts organized and operating under the provisions of this chapter.
(b)(1)(A) The effective date of membership of the employees in the system shall be July 1, 1973.
(B) The employees enrolled in the system shall be subject to the rights, privileges, and limitations prescribed in this chapter.
(2) Every such employee shall become a member of the system as a condition of continuing or obtaining employment with any conservation district.
(c) Any employee included within the membership of the system pursuant to this section shall be given credit for service rendered prior to July 1, 1957, as an employee of a public employer, as defined in § 24-4-101, or as an employee of a conservation district organized and operating under this chapter, if the employee was so employed on July 1, 1957, and on July 1, 1973.
(d)(1)(A) Any employee included within the membership of the system by this section who is an employee of a conservation district on July 1, 1973, may apply for and receive current service credit for service rendered as an employee of a public employer, as defined in § 24-4-101, or as an employee of a conservation district from July 1, 1957, to July 1, 1973.
(B) The employee shall receive credit only if the employee pays or causes to be paid to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System Fund all necessary contributions, at the rate of four percent (4%) for the employee and four percent (4%) for the employer from July 1, 1957, to July 1, 1967, four percent (4%) for the employee and five percent (5%) for the employer from July 1, 1967, to July 1, 1969, and five percent (5%) for the employee and seven percent (7%) for the employer from July 1, 1969, to July 1, 1973, that would have been paid had the employee been a member of the system during that time.
(2) Interest at the rate of four percent (4%) per annum compounded annually from July 1, 1957, shall be paid on all contributions, which shall be paid in full on or before July 1, 1974.
(e) Each conservation district shall pay into the fund such sums of money as are necessary to match the contributions of its employees in the same form and manner as other public employers and shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter, to the same extent as other public employers.
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24-4-101. Definitions.
As used in this act:
(1) “Accumulated contributions” means the sum of all amounts deducted from the compensations of a member and credited to his or her individual account in the member's deposit account, together with regular interest as may have been credited thereon;
(2) “Actual service” means service credited at the rate of one (1) month for each month of service;
(3) “Actuarial equivalent” means a benefit of equal reserve value when “reserve” means the present value of all payments to be made on account of any benefit based upon such reasonable rates of interest and tables of experience as a plan shall adopt from time to time;
(4) “Actuary” means a qualified actuary with experience in retirement plan financing. Membership in the American Academy of Actuaries shall be sufficient for a person to be deemed a qualified actuary;
(5) “Age” means age on last birthday;
(6)(A) “Annuity” means a monthly amount payable from funds of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System throughout the life of a person.
(B) All annuities shall be paid in equal monthly installments;
(7) “Annuity reserve” means the present value of an annuity computed upon the basis of mortality and other such tables of experience and regular interest, as the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System shall adopt;
(8) “Beneficiary” means any person except a retirant who is receiving or is designated by a member to receive a plan benefit;
(9) “Benefit program” means a schedule of benefits or benefit formulas from which the amounts of benefits can be determined;
(10) “Board” means the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, as created in this act;
(11)(A) “Compensation” means the recurring remunerat
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-4-101
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 24-4-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.