72-2676. Same; disability annuities; medical examinations. Any school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of fifteen (15) or more years of school service to said board may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any school employee so retired shall be entitled to receive a disability annuity from such retirement fund, during the period of retirement in equal monthly installments, beginning the month following such retirement. The annual aggregate shall be one-half (1/2) of the average annual salary for any five (5) years in which the highest compensation was received during the last ten (10) years of service to said board of education multiplied by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and the numerator is the number of years of school service credited to such employee, and multiplied further by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and numerator is thirty (30) minus one and one-half (1 1/2) times the number of years which the employee's age at retirement lacks of being sixty (60): Provided, That in no case shall the numerator of the first-mentioned fraction be more than thirty (30) and the numerator of the last-mentioned fraction be less than ten (10): Provided further, Prior school service shall be credited to the school employee's service record up to and including, but not in excess of twenty (20) years before September 1, 1939.

The board is authorized to provide for medical examinations and to secure other evidence at the expense of the retirement fund for any school employee retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Such medical examinations shall be repeated at least once in every three (3) years, and may be ordered at any time until the annuitant attains age sixty (60). In case any person receiving a disability annuity shall recover, or if he shall refuse to be examined, then the disability annuity shall cease. In case any person receives a disability annuity and later recovers and returns to school service, the service records of that person shall include all school service, both before and after disability.

History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 5; L. 1943, ch. 252, § 2; L. 1949, ch. 367, § 2; L. 1963, ch. 360, § 2; L. 1967, ch. 384, § 3; July 1.