New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:6 – Disability Retirement Benefits
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:6
- board: means the board provided for in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
- Board of trustees: or "board" means the board provided for in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
- Member: means any full-time supreme court, superior court, or circuit court judge. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this chapter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
- Retirement allowance: means the sum of the member annuity and the state annuity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
- Service: means service as a supreme court, superior court, full-time district court, or full-time probate court justice. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 100-C:1
Regardless of a member‘s length of service, any member who becomes permanently and totally disabled may apply to the board of trustees to retire on a disability retirement allowance not less than 30 nor more than 90 days subsequent to the filing of such application. Such application shall be granted provided that a physician or physicians designated by the board of trustees, after a medical examination of such member, certifies that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to be permanent, and that such person should be retired. A member’s disability retirement allowance shall be equal to 70 percent of the member’s final year’s salary.