Arkansas Code Title 24. Retirement and Pensions § 24-11-432. Special benefits--Restrictions

(a) Beginning July 1, 1987, in addition to the monthly pension benefits as set forth in §§ 24-11-401--24-11-403, 24-11-405--24-11-413, 24-11-416, 24-11-417, 24-11-422, 24-11-423, 24-11-425, 24-11-428--24-11-430, 24-11-801--24-11-807, 24-11-809, 24-11-813--24-11-815, and 24-11-818--24-11-820, for those police officers hired prior to January 1, 1983, and who continue to work beyond their twenty-fifth year, the member shall receive at age sixty (60) and thereafter a benefit on the amount equal to one and one-fourth percent (1.25%) of final salary attached to the rank which the member may have held in the department preceding the date of retirement multiplied by the number of years of service in excess of twenty-five (25) years up to a maximum total benefit of seventy-five percent (75%) of final salary, provided that the maximum seventy-five percent (75%) of final salary shall no longer apply to benefits payable on April 30, 1993, and thereafter to persons retiring henceforth and to those persons who retired on or after July 1, 1987.

(b) This benefit shall be payable to the member only and not to surviving spouses or dependent children.