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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-115" title_number="29" title_name="Benefits Other Than Service Retirement Benefits" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Disability Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This section applies only to a disability retiree who is not eligible to receive a normal service retirement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section does not apply to a disability retiree:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>who is a retiree of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the State Police Retirement System;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the Local Fire and Police System; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>the Employees’ Retirement System or the Employees’ Pension System, if at the time of retirement the retiree was a law enforcement officer for a participating employer under § 26–201(a) of this article;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>who is reemployed by a participating employer in any position other than a probationary status law enforcement officer, a law enforcement officer, as defined in § 1–101 of the Public Safety Article, or chief; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>whose average final compensation was less than the minimum annual salary on the standard State pay scale as of January 1 of the preceding calendar year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Board of Trustees shall, after giving notice, temporarily suspend the retiree’s allowance if the retiree:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>began receiving a disability retirement allowance on or after July 1, 1998; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>is employed by a participating employer at an annual compensation that is at least equal to the retiree’s average final compensation at retirement.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A temporary suspension under this subsection shall begin as of the date the retiree is reemployed by a participating employer under subparagraph (i)2 of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A retiree whose allowance is temporarily suspended under this subsection is not subject to a reduction as provided in § 29–116 of this subtitle during the period of employment by a participating employer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Upon receiving satisfactory documentation that the retiree is no longer employed by a participating employer, the Board of Trustees shall reinstate the retiree’s allowance with accumulated cost–of–living adjustments from the date the allowance was temporarily suspended.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The retiree’s allowance will be reinstated on the first day of the month following the month in which the retiree ceased employment with the participating employer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
