RS 11:951.84: Disability retirement benefits; application for; eligibility requirements

Upon the application of a participant or of the Orleans Parish School Board, any participant who has completed ten or more years of creditable service may be retired by the board of trustees not less than thirty nor more than ninety days following the date of the filing of such application for a disability retirement allowance, provided that the medical board after a medical examination of such participant shall certify that the participant is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of duty and that the participant should be retired; should any such participant refuse to submit to such medical examination, his rights in and to retirement may be withheld during the period of such refusal, and should his refusal continue for a period of one year, all his rights in and to the benefits of the retirement system may be voided and his accumulated contributions may be returned by the board of trustees.