2010 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees
38-885 Normal retirement; conditions and pension

38-885. Normal retirement; conditions and pension

A. A member may retire if the member:

1. Files a written application for normal retirement with the plan in the form prescribed by the plan.

2. Ceases to be an employee before the date of retirement.

3. Meets one of the age and service requirements for normal retirement prescribed in subsection B.

B. A member is eligible for a normal retirement pension if the member satisfies one of the following requirements:

1. Is sixty-two years or older and has ten or more years of service.

2. Has twenty or more years of service or in the case of a dispatcher, twenty-five years.

3. The sum of the member's age and years of credited service equals at least eighty.

C. A member who meets the requirements for a normal retirement pension and who has twenty years or twenty-five years, as applicable, of credited service is entitled to receive a pension that equals fifty per cent of the member's average monthly salary, except that:

1. If the member retires with more than twenty years of credited service the foregoing amount shall be increased by a monthly amount equal to two per cent of the member's average monthly salary multiplied by the number of the member's years of credited service in excess of twenty years, with pro rata increase for any fractional years, except that if a member retires with twenty-five or more years of credited service the foregoing amount shall be increased by a monthly amount equal to two and one-half per cent of the member's average monthly salary multiplied by the number of the member's years of credited service in excess of twenty years, with pro rata increase for any fractional year.

2. If the member retires pursuant to subsection B but has less than twenty years of credited service, the member is entitled to receive a pension equal to the product of:

(a) Two and one-half per cent of the member's average monthly salary.

(b) The member's credited service.

D. In no case shall the amount of a member's pension exceed eighty per cent of the member's average monthly salary. Such limitation does not preclude cost-of-living increases granted by the legislature.