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24-6-226. Eligibility for benefits — Voluntary retirement for Tier I noncontributory members.
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24-6-226. Eligibility for benefits — Voluntary retirement for Tier I noncontributory members.
(a)(1) Any member who has acquired five (5) years but less than thirty (30) years of actual service and has attained age sixty-five (65) may retire upon written application filed with the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.
(2) Any member who has acquired five (5) or more years of actual service and has attained age fifty-two (52) may retire upon written application filed with the State Police Retirement System.
(3) Any member who acquired thirty (30) or more years of actual service may retire at any age upon written application filed with the board.
(4) For those members with less than thirty (30) actual years of service, the age sixty-five (65) requirement shall be reduced by one (1) month for every two (2) months of public safety credit, but in no event to an age younger than fifty-two (52).
(b) This application shall set forth at what time, not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, the member desires to be retired.
(c) Upon the member's retirement, he or she shall receive a pension provided for in § 24-6-216.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-6-226
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24-6-226. Eligibility for benefits — Voluntary retirement for Tier I noncontributory members.
(a)(1) Any member who has acquired five (5) years but less than thirty (30) years of actual service and has attained age sixty-five (65) may retire upon written application filed with the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.
(2) Any member who has acquired five (5) or more years of actual service and has attained age fifty-two (52) may retire upon written application filed with the State Police Retirement System.
(3) Any member who acquired thirty (30) or more years of actual service may retire at any age upon written application filed with the board.
(4) For those members with less than thirty (30) actual years of service, the age sixty-five (65) requirement shall be reduced by one (1) month for every two (2) months of public safety credit, but in no event to an age younger than fifty-two (52).
(b) This application shall set forth at what time, not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, the member desires to be retired.
(c) Upon the member's retirement, he or she shall receive a pension provided for in § 24-6-216.
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24-6-216. Benefits — Survivor's pension upon death of retirant.
(a)(1) In the event a retirant dies and leaves a spouse to whom the retirant was married, the surviving spouse shall receive a pension equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of the retirant's pension, but only if the spouse has under care the retirant's dependent children whose dates of birth are prior to the retirant's date of retirement.
(2) When the spouse no longer has under care such a dependent child, the pension shall be reduced to fifty percent (50%) of the retirant's pension.
(3) Upon the spouse's remarriage or death, the pension provided for in this subsection shall terminate.
(b)(1) In the event a retirant dies and leaves a spouse to whom he or she was married and who does not have under care the retirant's dependent children, the surviving spouse shall receive a pension equal to fifty percent (50%) of the retirant's pension.
(2) Upon the spouse's remarriage or death, the pension provided for in this subsection shall terminate.
(c)(1) In the event a retirant dies and does not leave a spouse eligible for a pension as provided for in this section, or in the event the surviving spouse dies or remarries and the pension provided for in subsection (a) of this section is terminated, and there is surviving the retirant a dependent child, or children, each such child shall receive a pension of an equal share of seventy-five percent (75%) of the retirant's pension.
(2) In no case shall the pension payable to any such child exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the retirant's pension.
(d)(1)(A) A child shall be a dependent child until his or her death, his or her marriage, or his or her attainment of age eighteen (18), whichever occurs first.
(B)(i) However, the age-eighteen maximum shall be ex
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-6-216
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