WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 325

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 11(4) and (6) and 86(3) and (4a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 11(5) and (7) and 86(4) and (4b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88B - State Police

Section 53(d) and (f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 73B - Pensions

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(4)  Upon the application of a member or of his department
head, any member who has had five or more years of creditable
service may be retired by the board of trustees on an ordinary
disability retirement allowance, provided that the medical board,
after a medical examination of such member, shall certify that
such member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the
further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to be
permanent, and that such member should be retired. In no event
shall a member receive a disability allowance for a disability
incurred prior to enrollment in the retirement system, except to
the extent that such a disability was aggravated subsequent to
the member's enrollment.

(5)  (A) Upon retirement for ordinary disability a member
shall receive a service retirement allowance if he has attained
the age of 60 or has completed thirty years of creditable
service, otherwise he shall receive an ordinary disability
retirement allowance which shall be computed as one fifty-fifth
of his average final compensation multiplied by the number of
years of his creditable service but not less than one quarter of
his average final compensation; provided, however, that no such
allowance shall exceed one fifty-fifth of his average final
compensation multiplied by the number of years which would be
creditable to him were his service to continue until the

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