Disability retirement annuity; qualification

A. Any member who is less than sixty years of age, who shall have rendered at least ten years of total service and who shall become totally and permanently disabled for service, either mentally or physically, regardless of how or where the disability shall have occurred, shall be entitled to a disability retirement annuity. B. A member shall be considered as having a total and permanent disability only after the board shall have received written certification by at least two licensed and practicing physicians selected by the board, that the member is totally and likely to be permanently disabled for further performance of the duties of any assigned position in the service of the city. C. Such annuity shall begin to accrue upon expiration of ninety days following the commencement of disability, provided that if written application for such annuity is not filed with the board prior to the expiration of the ninety days and within the last thirty days of such period, the annuity shall begin to accrue as of the thirty days prior to the receipt of such application. D. The annual amount of disability retirement annuity shall be equal to one and one-half percent of average final compensation for each year of total service, subject to a minimum of twenty-five percent of average compensation and a maximum annual payment of fifty percent of average compensation. E. The disability annuity herein provided shall be subject to reduction by any amounts received or receivable by a member of worker's compensation under applicable worker's compensation laws. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §11, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; 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)).