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61.605 Disability retirement allowance.

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61.605 Disability retirement allowance. (1) Upon disability retirement, an employee may receive an annual retirement allowance payable monthly during his lifetime which shall be determined in the <br>same manner as for retirement at his normal retirement date with years of service <br>and final compensation being determined as of the date of his disability except that <br>service credit shall be added to the person's total service beginning with his last date <br>of paid employment and continuing to his sixty-fifth birthday; however, the <br>maximum service credit added shall not exceed the total service the person had <br>upon his last day of paid employment, and the maximum combined service credit <br>for calculating his disability retirement allowance, including total service and added <br>service shall not exceed twenty-five (25) years. If, however, a person has <br>accumulated twenty-five (25) or more years of total service, he shall receive added <br>service necessary to bring his combined service credit, including total and added <br>service, to twenty-seven (27) years. (2) For a member whose participation begins on or after August 1, 2004, the disability retirement allowance shall be the higher of twenty percent (20%) of the member's <br>monthly final rate of pay or the retirement allowance determined in the same <br>manner as for retirement at his normal retirement date with years of service and <br>final compensation being determined as of the date of his disability. Effective: July 13, 2004 <br>History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 33, sec. 4, and ch. 36, sec. 16, effective July 13, 2004. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 20, effective July 14, 2000. -- <br>Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 105, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1980 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 186, sec. 24, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 128, sec. 21, effective March 26, 1974. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 116, <br>sec. 38. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 6. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 35, sec. 10. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 12. -- Amended 1960 Ky. <br>Acts ch. 165, Part II, sec. 9. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 20. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/13/2004). This section was amended by 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 33, and included in 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 36. The two sections are not in <br>conflict and have been codified together.