Arkansas Code Title 24, Chapter 11, Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds
- § 24-11-801 - Board of Trustees -- Members.
(a) The board of trustees of every firemen's relief and pension fund established in a city, incorporated town, or duly qualified fire protection district...
- § 24-11-802 - Board of Trustees -- Proceedings.
(a) Meetings of the board of trustees may be called by the chair or by a majority of the members in a manner established...
- § 24-11-803 - Board of Trustees -- Powers.
(a) In addition to the other powers granted in this subchapter, the board of trustees of a firemen's relief and pension fund shall have...
- § 24-11-804 - Administration of Small Funds by Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System.
(a) (1) In those local firemen's relief and pension funds that cover fewer than five (5) members, a local board of trustees may no...
- § 24-11-805 - Investment.
(a) (1) All moneys provided for the firemen's relief and pension fund by this act shall be paid over to and received by the...
- § 24-11-806 - Payments Generally.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, payments provided for in this act shall be made monthly upon proper vouchers and...
- § 24-11-807 - Minimum Payments Generally -- Proration Upon Insufficiency of Fund -- Supplemental Pensions.
(a) For volunteer firefighters, in no case shall the payment to any retired member be less than one hundred dollars ($100) per month, and...
- § 24-11-808 - [Repealed.]
- § 24-11-809 - Apportionment of Insurance Premium Tax Generally.
(a) (1) There is apportioned and set aside for the use and benefit of duly constituted firemen's relief and pension funds and for the...
- § 24-11-810 - [Repealed.]
- § 24-11-811 - Appropriations of Insurance Premium Tax -- Planned Community Property Owners' Associations.
(a) As used in this section, "planned community property owners' association" means an incorporated nonprofit organization operating under recorded land agreements through which each...
- § 24-11-812 - Tax Levy by City Council.
(a) (1) After being once approved by a majority of those voting on the question at any general or special election of any city...
- § 24-11-813 - Clerk's Report to Pension Review Board.
It is made the duty of the clerk of each city, town, or fire improvement district in which an organized firemen's relief and pension...
- § 24-11-814 - Subjection of Fund to Legal Process.
(a) Either before or after its order of disbursement by the board to disabled members of the fire department, or to the surviving spouse,...
- § 24-11-815 - Appeals.
Any person possessing the qualifications required under this act who deems himself or herself aggrieved by the decision of any board of trustees of...
- § 24-11-816 - Membership -- Contributions.
(a) (1) Within sixty (60) days from July 1, 1975, each full-paid firefighter and each part-paid firefighter whose salary is fifty dollars ($50.00) or...
- § 24-11-817 - Military Service.
(a) In the event that a member of a firemen's relief and pension fund, while an employee, enters the United States Armed Forces during...
- § 24-11-818 - Benefits -- Voluntary Retirement.
(a) (1) (A) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the term "salary" shall mean recurring pays that are received for...
- § 24-11-819 - Benefits -- Disability Retirement.
(a) (1) Any firefighter who becomes totally and permanently physically or mentally incapacitated for any suitable duty as an employee as a result of...
- § 24-11-820 - Benefits -- Death of Active or Retired Member Other Than While Employed Outside Department.
(a) (1) Whenever any member of a fire department of any city, town, or fire improvement district covered by this act shall have lost...
- § 24-11-821 - [Repealed.]
- § 24-11-822 - Benefits -- Payments Upon Death of Retirant or Beneficiary.
(a) (1) If a retirant and his or her eligible beneficiary, if any, of a local firemen's relief and pension fund authorized by this...
- § 24-11-823 - Increase in Benefits for Certain Persons Retired Due to Total Permanent Disability.
(a) The board of trustees of any municipal firemen's relief and pension fund may increase benefits to persons who have retired or may retire...
- § 24-11-824 - Fire Protection Districts.
(a) Any fire protection district in this state formed pursuant to §§ 14-284-101 -- 14-284-121 and maintaining a fire department within that district is...
- § 24-11-825 - Pensions for Volunteer Firefighters.
(a) Upon termination of volunteer firefighter service with all Arkansas fire departments, a firefighter whose covered volunteer employment has been with more than one...
- § 24-11-826 - Additional Benefits for Certain Firefighters Hired Prior to January 1, 1983.
(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 1987, in addition to the monthly pension benefits as set forth in §§ 24-11-801 -- 24-11-807, 24-11-809, 24-11-812 --...
- § 24-11-827 - Retired Member Returning to Active Status.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, should an age or service retirant return March 1, 1986, or later to...
- § 24-11-828 - [Repealed.]
- § 24-11-829 - Increase in Surviving Spouse Benefits.
(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, the board of trustees of any municipal firemen's relief and pension fund for which a full...
- § 24-11-830 - Deferred Retirement Option Plan.
(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension pursuant to this subchapter, any full-paid firefighter who is a member of...
- § 24-11-831 - [Repealed.]
- § 24-11-832 - Applicability of § 24-11-820.
The provisions of § 24-11-820(b)(1) and (2) extending the survivorship benefits for children of deceased firefighters through their college years shall apply retroactively to...
- § 24-11-833 - Fire-Related Service.
(a) A member of a firemen's relief and pension fund who has fire-related service with the municipal government is entitled to purchase credited service...
- § 24-11-834 - Former Military Service Credit Purchase.
(a) An active member of a firemen's relief and pension fund may purchase credited service in the pension fund equivalent to a period not...
Last modified: November 15, 2016