§952.36. 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 an employee who formerly had a disability are specifically described and provided for in this Chapter and 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 having a disability by the State Medical Disability Board. The disability benefit shall consist of:

A service retirement allowance computed on the basis of the member's average regular compensation and years of credited service at the time of disability retirement without any reduction for reason of age.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1; Acts 1978, No. 727, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1979. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1627 pursuant to R.S. 24:253; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).