§3778. Member participation; service not interrupted by physical infirmity; military service; supplement to federal pension

A. A member's service period shall not be considered as having been interrupted during the period that the member may not be employed by the department because of illness, injury, or other physical infirmity or disability; nor shall it be considered as interrupted during the period that a member may be in actual military service of his country or state in time of war, peril, insurrection, calamity, or other cause that may call the member from private life to military service, and the dues of such member while absent from the department during such military service shall be waived. Provided also that if a member of the department is called into the Armed Forces of the United States, and as a result of his service he acquires a total disability and receives a pension from the federal government, the pension fund herein will pay him an amount sufficient to equal the sum of one hundred forty dollars per month, or if he is killed and his widow or dependent children receive a pension from the federal government, the Bus Drivers' Pension and Relief Fund shall pay his widow or dependent children an amount necessary to total the sum of eighty dollars per month.

B. In the event eighty dollars per month, or more, is paid by the Federal Government alone, then, and in that event there shall be no obligation on the part of the Bus Drivers' Pension and Relief Fund to pay out any amount to said widow or dependent children. In the event the Federal Government pays a greater amount than eighty dollars per month and at a later date decreases this amount to a sum less than eighty dollars per month, then and at that time, the Bus Drivers' Pension and Relief Fund shall pay to the widow and/or dependents an amount necessary to bring the total pension to the sum of eighty dollars per month.

Designated from Acts 1952, No. 187, §19 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).