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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-110" 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, an accidental disability retirement allowance equals the lesser of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the member’s average final compensation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the sum of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an annuity that is the actuarial equivalent of the member’s accumulated contributions at retirement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a pension equal to two–thirds of the member’s average final compensation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies to a member of a State system other than the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System who is at least normal retirement age.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An accidental disability retirement allowance equals the greater of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a normal service retirement allowance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an accidental disability retirement allowance computed in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to a member of the Employees’ Pension System who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is promoted within the Department of Corrections to a position that no longer is eligible for membership in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System as provided in § 25–201 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>elects not to transfer the years of creditable service the individual accrued in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System to the Employees’ Pension System; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is eligible to receive a vested allowance from the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A member may receive an accidental disability retirement allowance under this section if the member:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>does not elect to receive a vested allowance from the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>transfers the member’s accumulated contributions in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System to the Employees’ Pension System.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
