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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-109" future_version_removed="true" title_number="29" title_name="Benefits Other Than Service Retirement Benefits" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Disability Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to the State Police Retirement System.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Board of Trustees shall grant an accidental disability retirement allowance to a member if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the member is totally and permanently incapacitated for duty as the natural and proximate result of an accident that occurred in the actual performance of duty at a definite time and place without willful negligence by the member; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the medical board certifies that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of the normal duties of the member’s position;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the incapacity is likely to be permanent; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the member should be retired.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board of Trustees shall grant an accidental disability retirement allowance to a member of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the member is totally and permanently incapacitated for duty arising out of or in the course of the actual performance of duty without willful negligence by the member; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the medical board certifies that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the member is totally incapacitated, either mentally or physically, for the further performance of duty;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the incapacity is likely to be permanent; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the member should be retired.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
