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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-116" 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 a disability retiree:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <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; and</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; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <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; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>who is reemployed by a participating employer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board of Trustees shall reduce the pension of a retiree on ordinary disability if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the retiree is under normal retirement age;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the medical board certifies in a report to the Board of Trustees that the retiree is employed by a participating employer at an annual compensation that is greater than the difference between:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the retiree’s retirement allowance at retirement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the sum of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the retiree’s average final compensation; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>$5,000, which shall be adjusted annually by the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index, as defined in § 29–401 of this title, in the calendar year preceding the fiscal year, and each subsequent adjustment shall be made on the amount calculated in the prior fiscal year;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Board of Trustees agrees with the medical board’s report; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the retiree’s allowance has not been temporarily suspended as provided in § 29–115 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board of Trustees shall reduce the pension of a retiree who has been receiving an ordinary disability retirement allowance for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>less than 10 years, by $1 for every $2 that the retiree’s current compensation exceeds the limit under subsection (b) of this section; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>at least 10 years, by $1 for every $5 that the retiree’s current compensation exceeds the limit under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The pension to be reduced under this section is the pension at retirement without any cost–of–living adjustment.</text>
  </level>
</section>
