§583. Disability retirement

A. Eligibility for disability benefits, procedures for application for disability benefits, procedures for the certification of continuing eligibility for disability benefits, the authority of the board of trustees to modify disability benefits, and procedures governing the restoration to active service of a formerly disabled employee are specifically described and provided for in R.S. 11:201 through 224.

B. The board of trustees shall award disability benefits to eligible members who have been officially certified as disabled by the State Medical Disability Board. The disability benefit shall be determined as follows:

(1) Any member who has become partially disabled or incapacitated because of continued illness or as a result of an injury received, even though not in line of duty, but is not eligible for retirement under the provisions of R.S. 11:582 may apply for retirement under the provisions of this Subsection. The employee shall be retired on seventy-five percent of the retirement benefit to which he would be entitled under R.S. 11:582 if he were eligible thereunder.

(2) In case of total disability of any member resulting from injury received in line of duty, a monthly pension of sixty percent of his average compensation shall be paid to the disabled member under the provisions of this Subpart.

(3) In the case of total and permanent disability of a member resulting from injuries received while on active duty status and in the line of duty as the result of an intentional act of violence, the member shall receive a disability benefit equal to one hundred percent of his average compensation regardless of years of service.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 135, §2, eff. July 26, 1972. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 727, §9, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Redesignated from R.S. 56:683 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2018, No. 595, §1, eff. May 31, 2018.