Arkansas Code Title 24. Retirement and Pensions § 24-6-101. State Police Commission--Powers

(a)(1) The Arkansas State Police Commission is authorized and empowered to create and administer a system of paying disability, pension, and retirement pay funds to members of the Division of Arkansas State Police and their dependents and survivors.

(2) The commission shall have the authority and power, whenever it deems best, to pay medical expenses, including hospitalization fees and charges, of state police injured while in the performance of their official duties.

(1) Promulgate and enforce all rules necessary to create and administer a system of paying medical and hospitalization fees, disability benefits, pensions, and retirement pay to members of the division;

(2) Establish and prescribe the eligibility of members of the police force and their dependents and survivors in and to the benefits of the funds; and

(3) Do any and all things necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

(c)(1) There is created and established the State Police Retirement Fund, to which shall be credited any and all appropriations made by the General Assembly for the purposes outlined in this section.

(2) Any unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the first fiscal year of any biennial period may be used for a like purpose during the second fiscal year.

(3) Vouchers drawn upon and payable from the funds shall be drawn and paid in the manner provided by law for payment of obligations of the division.