Fund Manager, Public Safety Personnel Retirement System v. Tucson Police Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Board

HOWARD, Chief Judge.

OPINION

This case concerns the appropriate form for review of an administrative decision under the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Act, A.R.S. § 38-841 et seq., prior to its amendment in 1983. Before reciting the somewhat complicated factual and procedural posture of this case, it would be best to briefly describe the public safety personnel retirement system as it then existed.

Municipal firemen, policemen, employees of the Arizona Highway Patrol and other public safety personnel had a retirement system separate and apart from the other state employees. Since…