Sec. 834.201. ELIGIBILITY FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT ANNUITY. (a) A member is eligible, regardless of age, to retire from regular active service for disability and receive a disability retirement annuity if the member has at least seven years of service credit in the retirement system.
(b) A member otherwise eligible may not receive a disability retirement annuity unless the chief justice of the supreme court certifies that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of regular judicial duties.
(c) A disability retirement annuity may be denied on the ground that a claimed physical incapacity is caused by or results from an intemperate use of alcohol or narcotic drugs.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 44.201 by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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