Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-59-104. Effect of merger on employees

(A) Job performance is satisfactory;

(B) Student enrollment in programs is satisfactory; and

(C) Student job placements are satisfactory.

(b)(1)(A) By January 31, 2004, employees who were employed on June 30, 2003, by Mississippi County Community College or Cotton Boll Technical Institute shall have the right to make a one-time choice between:

(B) An employee who was employed by Cotton Boll Technical Institute on June 30, 2003, shall be entitled to remain in his or her same retirement system under the same conditions then provided by law or as may later be provided by law.

(C) The Cotton Boll Technical Institute employees who are classified employees of Cotton Boll Technical Institute but whose positions are deemed equivalent by Arkansas Northeastern College to nonclassified employee positions at the college may become nonclassified, and the classified position authorization is changed to nonclassified position authorization with the requisite increase in each appropriate nonclassified position allotment to Arkansas Northeastern College.

(A) All options, rights, and benefits of employment, including salary plus any adjustment authorized by the Board of Trustees of Arkansas Northeastern College, granted in subdivision (b)(1) of this section; and

(B) Any transportation benefits that accompanied the position of president.