Kansas Statutes 72-2676. Same; disability annuities; medical examinations
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2676
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Board: shall mean the board of education of any city of the first class operating a retirement system under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 72-26,115
- board of education: when used in this act, shall mean any board of education which, prior to the effective date of this act, has established and is operating a retirement system under any of the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 72-26,123
- compensation: means the same as provided in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
- Disability annuity: shall mean a school annuity granted to a school employee who suffers such physical or mental disability as to be unable to perform school service. See Kansas Statutes 72-2670
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Salary: shall mean the amount actually paid to the school employee for personal services plus the amount, if any, paid by the board of education toward an annuity for the school employee. See Kansas Statutes 72-2670
- School employee: shall mean any person regularly employed, and paid out of public funds, to perform services for the school district, and shall include all teachers, principals, superintendents, supervisors, librarians, clerks, secretaries, school nurses, attendance officers, managers, engineers, building superintendents, maintenance and repairmen, custodians, and all other persons regularly employed by the board of education. See Kansas Statutes 72-2670
- school service: means : (1) Service performed as a school employee prior to September 1, 1941, if such years of service include at least six months during the years 1938-39 or 1939-40 or 1940-41; service performed by any employee who was not in school service in any of the school years from 1938 to 1941, but who reentered school service after September 1, 1941, and continued in such service for at least five years; all service prior to September 1, 1941, of any annuitant who retired prior to September 1, 1961, and who was granted a service annuity for one or more years as a contributing member of the school retirement system; all service prior to September 1, 1941, of any employee who served for at least six months during one of the qualifying years from 1938 to 1941 in a school system maintaining its own separate retirement system in Kansas, if such employee has not qualified, nor will in the future qualify, for retirement benefits under the separate retirement system; all service as a school employee, including out-of-state service as a school employee, for a period of 10 or more years prior to September 1, 1938, except that service annuities paid by the state of Kansas to such school employees shall not include such out-of-state service as a school employee, unless otherwise provided by law; (2) service as a school employee after September 1, 1941, as a contributing member of the school retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
- service record: means the individual record kept by the board for each school employee. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
Any school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of fifteen (15) or more years of school service to said board may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any school employee so retired shall be entitled to receive a disability annuity from such retirement fund, during the period of retirement in equal monthly installments, beginning the month following such retirement. The annual aggregate shall be one-half (1/2) of the average annual salary for any five (5) years in which the highest compensation was received during the last ten (10) years of service to said board of education multiplied by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and the numerator is the number of years of school service credited to such employee, and multiplied further by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and numerator is thirty (30) minus one and one-half (1?1/2) times the number of years which the employee’s age at retirement lacks of being sixty (60): Provided, That in no case shall the numerator of the first-mentioned fraction be more than thirty (30) and the numerator of the last-mentioned fraction be less than ten (10): Provided further, Prior school service shall be credited to the school employee’s service record up to and including, but not in excess of twenty (20) years before September 1, 1939.
The board is authorized to provide for medical examinations and to secure other evidence at the expense of the retirement fund for any 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 once in every three (3) years, and may be ordered at any time until the annuitant attains age sixty (60). In case any person receiving a disability annuity shall recover, or if he shall refuse to be examined, then the disability annuity shall cease. In case any person receives a disability annuity and later recovers and returns to school service, the service records of that person shall include all school service, both before and after disability.