NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 689

SENATE BILL 511

AN ACT TO APPLY THE SAME STANDARD FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT AS FOR REEXAMINATION IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM, THE TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND THE UNIFORM JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 128-27(c) is amended by adding before the period in the first paragraph the words:

"; Provided further the medical board shall determine if the member is able to engage in gainful employment and, if so, the member may still be retired and the disability retirement allowance as a result thereof shall be reduced as in subsection (e) below".

Sec. 2. G.S. 135-5(c) is amended by adding before the period in the first paragraph the words:

"; Provided further the medical board shall determine if the member is able to engage in gainful employment and, if so, the member may still be retired and the disability retirement allowance as a result thereof shall be reduced as in subsection (e) below".

Sec. 3. G.S. 135-59 is amended by adding before the period in the first paragraph the words:

"and, provided further, the medical board shall determine if the member is able to engage in gainful employment and, if so, the member shall still be retired and the disability retirement allowance as a result thereof shall be reduced as in G.S. 135-60(d)".

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1981.