43:10-108 - Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident  or sickness incurred in service

43:10-108.  Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident  or sickness incurred in service    Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service, which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty, shall,  upon the certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians  designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon one-half pay. Physical  unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county superintendent of  weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures  shall for the purposes of this act, be established and determined by a board of  three physicians, to be designated for that purpose by the governing body of  such county.  The three physicians so designated shall examine the said county  superintendent of weights and measures so applying for retirement upon one-half  pay, because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they  or a majority of them find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further  duty, they or a majority of them shall make such finding and certify the same  to the clerk of the governing body of such county, and thereupon the governing  body shall retire the applicant upon one-half pay.

     L.1938, c. 397, p. 985, s. 3.