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24-4-740. Transfer of Director of the Administrative Office of Courts to Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
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24-4-740. Transfer of Director of the Administrative Office of Courts to Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(a) Effective July 1, 1993, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall cease to be a member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System. At that time, the director shall become a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(b)(1)(A) The retirement and survivors' benefit to be received by the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, shall not be less than that which he or she would have received under the provisions of § 24-8-218, including any increases after retirement, had he or she remained in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.
(B) Provided, further, he or she shall meet the eligibility requirements of § 24-8-215 and § 24-8-218 in order to receive the retirement and survivors' benefits provided under § 24-8-218 and shall meet the requirements of § 24-8-217 in order to receive the disability benefits provided under § 24-8-218.
(2)(A) The State of Arkansas, as employer, shall contribute to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System twelve percent (12%) of the salary amount of the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993.
(B) The director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, shall contribute six percent (6%) of his or her pay until such time as he or she is eligible for retirement under the provisions of § 24-8-215.
(C) Provided, further, all contributions made to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by the employer on behalf of the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, and all contributions made by the director, shall be transferred to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(D) In the event the director ceases to be a member prior to qualifying for re
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-4-740
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24-4-740. Transfer of Director of the Administrative Office of Courts to Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(a) Effective July 1, 1993, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall cease to be a member of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System. At that time, the director shall become a member of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(b)(1)(A) The retirement and survivors' benefit to be received by the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, shall not be less than that which he or she would have received under the provisions of § 24-8-218, including any increases after retirement, had he or she remained in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.
(B) Provided, further, he or she shall meet the eligibility requirements of § 24-8-215 and § 24-8-218 in order to receive the retirement and survivors' benefits provided under § 24-8-218 and shall meet the requirements of § 24-8-217 in order to receive the disability benefits provided under § 24-8-218.
(2)(A) The State of Arkansas, as employer, shall contribute to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System twelve percent (12%) of the salary amount of the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993.
(B) The director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, shall contribute six percent (6%) of his or her pay until such time as he or she is eligible for retirement under the provisions of § 24-8-215.
(C) Provided, further, all contributions made to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System by the employer on behalf of the director occupying the position on July 1, 1993, and all contributions made by the director, shall be transferred to the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System.
(D) In the event the director ceases to be a member prior to qualifying for retirement benefits, he or she shall be entitled to a refund of all contributions paid into the system by the director.
(c) The retirement benefit to be received by any new person occupying the position of director after July 1, 1993, shall be based upon the regular annuity and benefit provisions for the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System. The contributions to be made by the employer shall be the same as those required for the State Division of the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System. The person occupying the position thereafter shall not make contributions to the system.
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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 App
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-8-215
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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.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-8-217
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 24-8-217. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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24-8-218. Retirement and survivors' benefits generally.
(a) The retirement benefits to be paid an eligible and qualified member or retiree under the provisions of this section shall be sixty percent (60%) of the annual salary payable to the last judicial office held and shall be payable for the recipient's life.
(b)(1) Survivors' benefits shall be sixty-seven percent (67%) of the amount of the retirement benefits.
(2) Upon the death of an active judge who has served at least three (3) years, or any other judge who has met or could have met the qualifications for retirement benefits under any section of this subchapter, his or her survivors shall receive a sum equal to sixty-seven percent (67%) of the retirement benefits provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(3) The requirement of three (3) years of service shall only apply to judges elected after July 1, 1983.
(4) Survivors' benefits shall be payable as follows:
(A) If the decedent is survived by a spouse to whom he or she has been married for not less than one (1) year and with whom he or she is living at the time of the decedent's death and if he or she is not survived by any minor child or children, then the spouse shall draw for life or until remarriage a sum equal to sixty-seven percent (67%) of the benefits provided in subsection (a) of this section;
(B)(i) If the decedent is survived by both an eligible spouse and minor children, then one-half (½) of the survivors' benefits shall be paid to the spouse for life or until remarriage. The other one-half (½) of the survivors' benefits shall be paid to the guardian of the minor children during the period of minority.
(ii) When all of the children cease to be minors, then the survivors' benefits paid to the minor children shall be paid to the spous
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-8-218
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 24-8-218. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.