(a)        This Article shall be known and may be cited as the “Disability Income Plan of North Carolina”.

(b)        The purpose of this Article is to provide equitable replacement income for eligible teachers and employees who become temporarily or permanently disabled for the performance of their duty prior to retirement, and to encourage disabled teachers and employees who are able to work to seek gainful employment after a reasonable period of rehabilitation, and to provide for the accrual of retirement and ancillary benefits to the date the eligible teacher or employee meets the requirements for retirement under the provisions of this Chapter. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q).)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 135-100

  • Benefits: shall mean the monthly disability income payments made pursuant to the provisions of this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
  • Disabled: shall mean the mental or physical incapacity for the further performance of duty of a participant or beneficiary; provided that such incapacity was not the result of terrorist activity, active participation in a riot, committing or attempting to commit a felony, or intentionally self-inflicted injury. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
  • Employee: shall mean any employee as the term is defined in N. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Plan: shall mean the Disability Income Plan of North Carolina as provided in this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
  • Retirement: shall mean the withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
  • Teacher: shall mean any teacher as the term is defined in N. See North Carolina General Statutes 135-101
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