Arkansas Code Title 24, Chapter 8, Subchapter 7 - Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan

• § 24-8-701 - Legislative History, Findings, and Intent.
  (a) It is found and determined by the General Assembly that the creation of the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan is part...
• § 24-8-702 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System; (2) "Consumer price index" means the...
• § 24-8-703 - Creation of Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan.
  A Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan for the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System is established pursuant to this subchapter.
• § 24-8-704 - Membership Generally.
  (a) Whether elected or appointed to office, all chancery, circuit, and circuit-chancery judges, judges of the Court of Appeals, and justices of the Supreme...
• § 24-8-705 - Members Electing Coverage.
  (a) A member electing coverage under this subchapter shall be entitled to: (1) A refund to the member for any credited service purchased under...
• § 24-8-706 - Contributions -- Members -- Refund.
  (a) The contribution of each member of the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan for the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall be five...
• § 24-8-707 - Contributions -- State.
  (a) The state, as employer, shall make contributions to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System of twelve percent (12%) of the active member payroll.(b) The...
• § 24-8-708 - Contributions -- Cessation Upon Maximum Benefit Eligibility.
  When a judge or justice has sufficient service to receive the maximum benefit under § 24-8-713(a), no further contribution shall be required.
• § 24-8-709 - Actual Service Requirement.
  Benefits and eligibility for benefits under this subchapter shall be based on actual service in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System. Laws allowing the purchase...
• § 24-8-710 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Retirement Generally.
  (a) Any member who has a minimum of twenty (20) years of actual service may retire regardless of age, and any judge or justice...
• § 24-8-711 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Early Retirement.
  (a) Any member of the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan for the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has eight (8) years or...
• § 24-8-712 - Eligibility for Benefits -- Disability Retirement.
  (a) Any member under the Tier Two Actual Judicial Service Benefit Plan of the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System who has served a minimum of...
• § 24-8-713 - 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 an amount...
• § 24-8-714 - Restrictions on Benefits.
  (a) The sections of this subchapter are to be complementary, except that no person may take benefits under two (2) or more sections of...
• § 24-8-715 - [Repealed.]
• § 24-8-716 - Effect on Other Laws.
  The provisions of this subchapter shall be accumulative to all present laws pertaining to the retirement of judges of the circuit, chancery, and circuit-chancery...
• § 24-8-717 - Redetermination of Benefits.
  Notwithstanding § 24-8-715 [repealed], each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall redetermine the amount of each monthly benefit which has been paid...

Last modified: November 15, 2016