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1912, ch. 463, sec. 9.

594. The Board of School Commissioners shall .retire from regular

duty, upon his or her application, any teacher who has been such for a
period of twenty years at the time such application is made, and who is
disabled or incapacitated from performing regular duty; provided the
Board of Trustees shall find such teacher so disabled or incapacitated
after an examination made by a physician appointed by said Board of
Trustees, the examination fee or charge to be paid by the teacher exam-
ined, and the teacher so retired, provided he or she shall be entitled to
the advantages of this act under Sections 590 or 591 hereof, shall receive
for life a salary of as many fortieths as that provided for by Section 600
as he or she may have served years at the time of such retirement, and
if the Board of School Commissioners shall deem any teacher who has
been such for a period of twenty years at the time the notices herein pro-
vided for are given, to be disabled or incapacitated from performing
regular duty; the said Board of School Commissioners shall serve written
notice to that effect upon the said teacher and the president or the sec-
Tetary of the Board of Trustees and the proceedings shall then be had,
after the notices provided for in Section 587, in accordance with the
provisions of said section. If the Board of Trustees, after such proceed-
ings are had, shall find the said teacher to be incapacitated for performing
Tegular duty, the Board of School Commissioners may retire such teacher
from regular duty, and such teacher, if so retired, shall be entitled to
a salary in the same manner and amount as if he or she had been retired
upon his or her own application under this section.

1912, ch. 463, sec. 10.

595. Unless teachers who may be retired under the two preceding sec-
tions shall have paid into said Teachers' Retirement Fund, by way of
assessment or otherwise, an amount equal at least to that which he or she
shall be entitled to receive as a salary for the first year of retirement, the
said Board of Trustees shall deduct one-fifth of the deficiency thereof
from the amount of said salarv for each of the first five vears that the

same may be payable.

1912. ch. 463, sec. 11.

596. After any teacher shall have been retired under Section 594, the
Board of Trustees shall have the right at any time to cause such teacher
again to be brought before it and examined by its physician, and also to
examine other witnesses for the purpose of ascertaining whether such
teacher shall remain on the retired roll. The fee or charge of the examin-
ing physician shall be paid by the Board of Trustees. Such teacher shall
be entitled to at least thirty days' notice and to be present at the hearing

of any such evidence; shall be permitted to propound any question per-
tinent or relative to such matter, and shall have the right to introduce
evidence upon his or her own behalf. Such teachers and all witnesses
shall be examined under oath, and any member of said board of trustees