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Arkansas Code of 1987 (2024)
Title 21 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES (§§ 21-1-101 — 21-15-113)
Chapter 5 - COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS (§§ 21-5-101 — 21-5-1418)
Subchapter 7 - DEATH BENEFITS (§§ 21-5-701 — 21-5-708)
Section 21-5-708 - Designated beneficiary
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AR Code § 21-5-708 (2024)
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- (a)
- (1) A covered public employee may designate a beneficiary on a form provided by his or her employer.
- (2) The form to designate a beneficiary shall be completed by the covered public employee, witnessed, and submitted to his or her employer to be kept in the covered public employee's personnel file.
- (3) Upon a change of beneficiary, the employer shall notify the previous beneficiary within thirty (30) days after the change of beneficiary occurred.
- (b) If the covered public employee does not designate a beneficiary, the benefits shall be paid to the surviving spouse or surviving children under twenty-two (22) years of age or, if there is no surviving spouse or surviving children under twenty-two (22) years of age, then to the surviving children twenty-two (22) years of age or older or to the surviving parents.
Amended by Act 2015, No. 297,§ 1, eff. 7/22/2015.
Acts 2009, No. 1313, § 3.
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