2010 Arkansas Code
Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions
Chapter 8 - Retirement Of Judges And Court Employees
Subchapter 3 - Municipal Judges and Clerks Generally
§ 24-8-309 - Eligibility for benefits -- Sixteen years of service as judge and city attorney.

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 the salary of the judge of the municipal court, any judge of a municipal court who has served or who shall serve at least twelve (12) years in office as municipal judge and who has also served four (4) years or more as city attorney in the same city shall, upon attaining age sixty-five (65), receive retirement benefits for and during the remainder of his natural life in an amount equal to one-half (1/2) of the salary payable to him at the time of his resignation, retirement, or succession in office.