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24-6-405. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement.
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24-6-405. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement.
(a)(1)(A) Upon application filed with the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System by a member or by the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police on behalf of a member, a member who is in the employ of the Division of Arkansas State Police, who has five (5) or more years of actual service, and who becomes totally and permanently incapacitated for duty in the employ of the division by reason of personal injury or disease may be retired by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System, but only after a medical examination of the member.
(B) This examination shall be made by or under the direction of a board of medical professionals as defined in the rules of the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System, using the active duty criteria supplied by the division in determining the extent of the disability.
(2) The five-years-of-service requirement contained in this subsection shall not apply to a member whom the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System finds to be in receipt of workers' compensation for his or her disability arising solely and exclusively out of and in the course of his or her employment with the division.
(b) Upon his or her retirement upon account of disability as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a member shall receive a disability pension computed according to the contributory provisions of § 24-6-214 or the noncontributory provisions of § 24-6-227, as applicable.
(c)(1) At least one (1) time each year during the first five (5) years following a member's retirement on account of disability and at least one (1) time in every three-year period thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement Syst
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-6-405
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24-6-405. Eligibility for benefits — Disability retirement.
(a)(1)(A) Upon application filed with the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System by a member or by the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police on behalf of a member, a member who is in the employ of the Division of Arkansas State Police, who has five (5) or more years of actual service, and who becomes totally and permanently incapacitated for duty in the employ of the division by reason of personal injury or disease may be retired by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System, but only after a medical examination of the member.
(B) This examination shall be made by or under the direction of a board of medical professionals as defined in the rules of the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System, using the active duty criteria supplied by the division in determining the extent of the disability.
(2) The five-years-of-service requirement contained in this subsection shall not apply to a member whom the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System finds to be in receipt of workers' compensation for his or her disability arising solely and exclusively out of and in the course of his or her employment with the division.
(b) Upon his or her retirement upon account of disability as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a member shall receive a disability pension computed according to the contributory provisions of § 24-6-214 or the noncontributory provisions of § 24-6-227, as applicable.
(c)(1) At least one (1) time each year during the first five (5) years following a member's retirement on account of disability and at least one (1) time in every three-year period thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System may, and upon the retirant's application shall, require any disability retirant who has not attained age fifty (50) to undergo a medical examination to be made by or under the direction of the medical professionals designated by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.
(2) If the retirant refuses to submit to a medical examination in any such period, his or her disability pension may be suspended by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System until his or her withdrawal of his or her refusal.
(3) If his or her refusal continues for one (1) year, all his or her rights in and to a disability pension may be revoked by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.
(4) If, upon the medical examination of the retirant, the medical professionals designated by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System report to the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System that the retirant is physically capable of performing the duties of the rank held by him or her at the time of his or her retirement, the retirant shall be returned to the employ of the division, and his or her disability pension shall be terminated.
(d)(1) Upon a disability retirant's return to the employ of the division as provided in subsection (c) of this section, his or her service at the time of his or her retirement shall be restored to his or her credit.
(2) He or she shall be given service credit for the period he or she was receiving a disability pension if within that period he or she was in receipt of workers' compensation on account of his or her division employment.
(e) In the event a disability retirant who has not attained age fifty-five (55) performs personal services in an occupation, business, or employment, his or her disability pension shall be reduced so that the sum of his or her disability pension and the compensation received by him or her from the occupation, business, or employment shall not exceed his or her annual rate of salary at the time of his or her retirement.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
24-6-214. Benefits generally — Contributory member.
(a) Upon his or her retirement as provided in this subchapter, a member shall receive a straight life pension equal to the following sum: Two and nine hundred forty-nine thousandths percent (2.949%) of his or her final average compensation multiplied by the number of years, and any fraction of a year, of his or her credited service not to exceed twenty (20) years, plus the sum of two and three hundred fifty-nine thousandths percent (2.359%) of his or her final average compensation multiplied by the number of years, and any fraction of a year, of his or her credited service in excess of twenty (20) years but not in excess of twenty-five (25) years, plus one and eighteen-hundredths percent (1.18%) of his or her final average compensation multiplied by the number of years, and any fraction of a year, of his or her credited service in excess of twenty-five (25) years but not in excess of thirty (30) years.
(b)(1) In the event a member who has acquired twenty (20) years or more of credited service retires prior to attainment of age fifty (50), as provided in this subchapter, his or her pension, as provided for in subsection (a) of this section, shall be reduced one-half percent (0.5%) multiplied by the number of completed months in the period from the date he or she requests his or her pension to begin to the date he or she would have attained age fifty (50).
(2) In the event a member with five (5) years or more of credited service in the State Police Retirement System ceases to be employed as a state police officer prior to reaching fifty (50) years of age and does not withdraw his or her accumulated employee contributions to the system, the member shall be entitled to receive a pension upon reaching fifty (50) years
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-6-214
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
24-6-227. Benefits generally — Tier I noncontributory member.
(a)(1) Upon retirement as provided in this subchapter, a member shall receive a straight life pension equal to one and fifty-five-hundredths percent (1.55%) of his or her final average compensation multiplied by the number of years and any fraction of a year of his or her credited service.
(2)(A) In addition, if a member has service resulting from employment in a position covered at any time by Social Security or another federal retirement plan supported wholly or in part by employer contributions, and if that member's age at retirement is younger than:
(i) Social Security's minimum age for an immediate retirement benefit; and
(ii) Age sixty-two (62),
then the member shall receive a temporary annuity equal to three hundred and twenty-two-thousandths of one percent (0.322%) of the member's final average compensation for each year of his or her credited service.
(B) The temporary annuity shall terminate at the end of the calendar month in which the earliest of the following events occurs:
(i) The member's death;
(ii) The member's attainment of the Social Security minimum age for an immediate monthly benefit; or
(iii) The member's attainment of age sixty-two (62).
(b) In the event a member with five (5) years or more of actual service in the State Police Retirement System ceases to be employed as a state police officer prior to reaching the required age for voluntary retirement and does not withdraw his or her accumulated employee contributions to the system, the member shall be entitled to receive a pension upon reaching what his or her voluntary retirement age would have been if he or she had continued state police employment from time of termination of employment.
(c) Any member may elect
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 24-6-227
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 24-6-227. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.