Sec. 839.202. DISABILITY REPORTS. (a) A member who applies for retirement because of physical incapacity shall file with the retirement system and the chief justice of the supreme court written reports by two physicians licensed to practice medicine in this state, fully reporting the claimed physical incapacity.
(b) The retirement system shall refer an application for disability retirement to the medical board for its recommendations. The medical board may require an applicant to submit any additional information it considers necessary to enable it to make its recommendations.
(c) The chief justice of the supreme court may direct the retirement system to employ a physician under Section 840.203 or may direct the medical board to require additional information under Subsection (b).
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 602, Sec. 1, Sept. 1, 1985. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. Title 110B, Sec. 74.202 and amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 179, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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