Section 87.205

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Chapter 87

Effective - 28 Aug 2001, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  87.205.  Accidental disability retirement allowance. — 1. Upon retirement for accidental disability, a member shall receive seventy-five percent of the pay then provided by law for the highest step in the range of salary for the title or rank held by such member at the time of such retirement unless the member is permanently and totally incapacitated from performing any work, occupation or vocation of any kind whatsoever and is continuously confined to the member's home except for visits to obtain medical treatment, in which event the member may receive, in the discretion of the board of trustees, a retirement allowance in an amount not exceeding the member's rate of compensation as a firefighter in effect as of the date the allowance begins.

  2. Anyone who has retired pursuant to the provisions of section 87.170 and has been reinstated pursuant to subsection 2 of section 87.130 who subsequently becomes disabled, as provided in section 87.200, shall receive a total benefit which is the higher of either the disability pension or the service pension.

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(L. 1959 S.B. 314 § 86.531, A.L. 1967 p. 168, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1404, A.L. 2001 S.B. 290)