Opinion No.

The Honorable Randy Laverty State Representative Post Office Box 303 Jasper, Arkansas 72641

Dear Representative Laverty:

This is in response to your request for clarification of a statement made in Op. Att'y Gen. 96-019. That opinion was issued in response to two questions relating to Act 846 of 1995. Act 846 amended A.C.A. §24-4-101(7)(B) (Supp. 1995) to provide, in essence, that a person eligible for or receiving benefits from the State Police Retirement System who has been elected sheriff of a county is an "employee" within the meaning of that word as used in provisions of the Arkansas Code…