Arkansas Code Title 24. Retirement and Pensions § 24-6-405. Eligibility for benefits--Disability retirement

(2) The five-years-of-service requirement contained in this subsection shall not apply to a member whom the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System finds to be in receipt of workers' compensation for his or her disability arising solely and exclusively out of and in the course of his or her employment with the division.

(c)(1) At least one (1) time each year during the first five (5) years following a member's retirement on account of disability and at least one (1) time in every three-year period thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System may, and upon the retirant's application shall, require any disability retirant who has not attained age fifty (50) to undergo a medical examination to be made by or under the direction of the medical professionals designated by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.

(2) If the retirant refuses to submit to a medical examination in any such period, his or her disability pension may be suspended by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System until his or her withdrawal of his or her refusal.

(3) If his or her refusal continues for one (1) year, all his or her rights in and to a disability pension may be revoked by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System.

(4) If, upon the medical examination of the retirant, the medical professionals designated by the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System report to the Board of Trustees of the State Police Retirement System that the retirant is physically capable of performing the duties of the rank held by him or her at the time of his or her retirement, the retirant shall be returned to the employ of the division, and his or her disability pension shall be terminated.

(d)(1) Upon a disability retirant's return to the employ of the division as provided in subsection (c) of this section, his or her service at the time of his or her retirement shall be restored to his or her credit.

(2) He or she shall be given service credit for the period he or she was receiving a disability pension if within that period he or she was in receipt of workers' compensation on account of his or her division employment.