Opinion No.

The Honorable Jim Hill State Senator 100 Center Nashville, Arkansas 71852-3821

Dear Senator Hill:

I am writing in response to your request for an opinion on the retirement benefit to be paid to the City Clerk-Treasurer of DeQueen. You relay the following facts and pose the following question:

The clerk-treasurer retired in May 2000. The clerk-treasurer was due a retirement benefit based on Arkansas Code 24-12-121. It says that the retirement benefit was to be "equal to one-half of the monthly salary received by him during the last preceding year in his service." Arkansas Code 24-12-123, which…