72-26,108. Same; retirement and payment on account of disability, when; limitation; medical examination; reinstatement. Any teacher or other public school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of twenty-five (25) or more years of teaching experience or other employment may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any teacher or other public school employee so retired, provided that at least fifteen (15) years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment shall have been in the public schools of cities of the first class of the state of Kansas, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund during the period of retirement, monthly installments, the annual aggregate of which shall be such percentage of one-half (1/2) of such teacher's or other public school employee's average annual salary for the last ten (10) years of such service as the number of years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment of the beneficiary shall bear to the term of thirty years, except that no such teacher or other public school employee who is so retired shall receive more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum.
The board of education is authorized to provide for medical examinations and to secure other evidence, at the expense of the retirement fund, for any teacher or other public school employee retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Such medical examinations shall be repeated at least every year, and may be ordered at any time until the beneficiary attains the age of sixty-five (65). In case any person receiving payments under this act by reason of disability shall recover, or if he shall refuse to be examined, then payments to such person from the retirement fund created by this act shall cease. In case any person receives payments under this act by reason of being retired because of disability and later recovers and returns to school service, the service record of such person shall include all school service, both before and after, but not during disability.
History: L. 1947, ch. 384, § 4; L. 1959, ch. 284, § 1; June 30.
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