Arkansas Code Title 24, Chapter 8, Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally

• § 24-8-301 - Subchapter Cumulative.
  This subchapter shall not repeal existing laws of this state relating to the retirement of municipal court judges and municipal court clerks but shall...
• § 24-8-302 - Board of Trustees.
  (a) There is created in cities of the first class or cities of the second class a board of trustees which shall consist of...
• § 24-8-303 - [Repealed.]
• § 24-8-304 - Benefits -- Frequency of Payment -- Deficiencies.
  (a) All payments of retirement benefits under this subchapter shall be payable semimonthly.(b) (1) In case the fund established by this subchapter should ever...
• § 24-8-305 - Entitlement to Benefits Generally.
  (a) Any judge, licensed to practice law, of a municipal court established in any county and any clerk of such a municipal court appointed...
• § 24-8-306 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Regular and Disability Retirement -- Surviving Spouses' Rights.
  (a) A judge of a municipal court upon reaching age sixty-eight (68) and having served for a minimum of seven (7) years immediately prior...
• § 24-8-307 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Cities of the First Class or Cities of the Second Class.
  (a) (1) Upon the approval of a majority of the city council or the board of directors of a city of the first class...
• § 24-8-308 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Twenty Years of Service.
  (a) (1) Any judge of a municipal court to which this subchapter applies who shall have served at least twenty (20) years in office...
• § 24-8-309 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Sixteen Years of Service As Judge and City Attorney.
  Upon the approval of the governing body of the municipality and of the county quorum court if county funds are used to partially pay...
• § 24-8-310 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Judge Unlicensed to Practice Law.
  (a) Any judge of a municipal court who is not licensed to practice law, who has served at least twenty (20) years as municipal...
• § 24-8-311 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Clerks.
  (a) (1) Any clerk of a municipal court to which this subchapter applies, appointed by the judges of the court, shall be eligible to...
• § 24-8-312 - Right of Transfer From or Purchase of Credit in Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System or Reciprocal System.
  (a) (1) A judge of a municipal court and a clerk of a municipal court who, on March 23, 1973, were covered by the...
• § 24-8-313 - Vote to Pay Benefits to Certain Clerks and Spouses of Judges.
  (a) Upon a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the board of trustees established under § 24-8-302, the fund established under § 24-8-301 et seq. may...
• § 24-8-314 - Municipal Judge Filling Partial Term, Etc.
  (a) Any judge of a municipal court who was elected countywide to a partial term left vacant by the death of the former judge...
• § 24-8-315 - Multicounty Districts -- Options.
  (a) The quorum court of any county which is divided into two (2) districts and has two (2) county seats and in which the...
• § 24-8-316 - [Repealed.]
• § 24-8-317 - Funding for Retirement Benefits.
  (a) (1) After the repeal of § 24-8-303 providing for the levy of court costs to fund the municipal court judge and clerk retirement...
• § 24-8-318 - Additional Funding Sources for Retirement Benefits.
  (a) In addition to the funds for the municipal court judges and clerk retirement fund provided for by § 16-10-308(a)-(d), if the city council...
• § 24-8-319 - Benefits.
  Any person participating in a retirement plan authorized under this subchapter on or after July 1, 1999, shall be entitled to a retirement benefit...
• § 24-8-320 - Municipal Court Retirement Transition Group.
  (a) Currently, the municipal judges and court clerks in Arkansas are covered under numerous and separate retirement plans run independently by each municipal government....
• § 24-8-321 - Funds Closed.
  (a) The municipal judge and clerk retirement funds defined in this subchapter are closed effective December 31, 2004.(b) There will be no new members...

Last modified: November 15, 2016