§ 24-11-827 - Retired member returning to active status. - Arkansas Statutes

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 employment in a position covered by the firemen's fund from which he or she retired, no pension payments shall be paid him or her for the period of such reemployment, and he or she may make member contributions to the system as if he or she were an active member during such reemployment.

(b) (1) If reemployment terminates before the retirant has rendered sufficient reemployment to accumulate at least three (3) years of credited service had he or she been an active member during such reemployment, the payment of his or her pension shall resume upon such termination, under the form of payment in force at the beginning of reemployment and in an amount as it would be had he or she not been reemployed.

(2) The retirant shall be paid the accumulated contributions based upon any member contributions he or she may have made during such reemployment.

(c) (1) If reemployment continues until the retirant has rendered sufficient reemployment to accumulate three (3) years of credited service had he or she been an active member during such reemployment, then effective upon completion of such reemployment, his or her retirement shall be canceled and the former retirant shall again become an active member.

(2) Upon resuming active membership, the service and contributions and pay records during reemployment shall be added to the member's records as they were at retirement.