Any teacher or other public school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of twenty-five (25) or more years of teaching experience or other employment may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any teacher or other public school employee so retired, provided that at least fifteen (15) years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment shall have been in the public schools of cities of the first class of the state of Kansas, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund during the period of retirement, monthly installments, the annual aggregate of which shall be such percentage of one-half (1/2) of such teacher’s or other public school employee’s average annual salary for the last ten (10) years of such service as the number of years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment of the beneficiary shall bear to the term of thirty years, except that no such teacher or other public school employee who is so retired shall receive more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum.

The board of education is authorized to provide for medical examinations and to secure other evidence, at the expense of the retirement fund, for any teacher or other public 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 every year, and may be ordered at any time until the beneficiary attains the age of sixty-five (65). In case any person receiving payments under this act by reason of disability shall recover, or if he shall refuse to be examined, then payments to such person from the retirement fund created by this act shall cease. In case any person receives payments under this act by reason of being retired because of disability and later recovers and returns to school service, the service record of such person shall include all school service, both before and after, but not during disability.

Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-26,108

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
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