{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-24-10-701","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 24-10-701","heading":"Election to participate","body":"(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a voluntary service retirement benefit, a police officer or firefighter who is a member in paid service with the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System may elect in a manner prescribed by the system to participate in the Local Police and Fire Deferred Retirement Option Plan under this section and defer the receipt of benefits in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, provided that the member meets one (1) of the following requirements: (1) The member has at least twenty-eight (28) years of service; or (2) The member has at least twenty (20) years of service and is at least fifty-five (55) years of age. (b) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System shall approve the participation in the plan. Amended by Act 2015, No. 829,§ 1, eff. 7/22/2015. Amended by Act 2013, No. 40,§ 15, eff. 2/6/2013. Acts 2003, No. 1734, § 1; 2005, No. 871, § 1.\n\n(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a voluntary service retirement benefit, a police officer or firefighter who is a member in paid service with the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System may elect in a manner prescribed by the system to participate in the Local Police and Fire Deferred Retirement Option Plan under this section and defer the receipt of benefits in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, provided that the member meets one (1) of the following requirements: (1) The member has at least twenty-eight (28) years of service; or (2) The member has at least twenty (20) years of service and is at least fifty-five (55) years of age.\n\n(1) The member has at least twenty-eight (28) years of service; or\n\n(2) The member has at least twenty (20) years of service and is at least fifty-five (55) years of age.\n\n(b) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System shall approve the participation in the plan.","path":["AR Code","Title 24","Chapter 10","Subchapter 7"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"ee965dcd65087c89004c8bda041845ea343ed7afe75aa905ce1ee6730c8142e4","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-24-10-620","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-24-10-702","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}