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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 10:10:30+00:00

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(2) Makes application to the board for such benefit within 12 months of the date on which he is separated from his employment as a firefighter or his appointment as a volunteer firefighter as a result of such total and permanent disability.
Such benefit shall be payable from the beginning of the seventh calendar month after the date of such separation or the date of application, whichever is later.
(2) Such firefighter shall have been a member in good standing of the fund for five consecutive years immediately prior to his application for disability.
Such benefit shall be payable from the beginning of the seventh calendar month after the date of disability or the date of application, whichever is later.
(2) Has at least 15 years of creditable service as a firefighter or volunteer firefighter.
(6) An illness, disease, or physical injury or abnormality existing or suffered prior to current membership in the fund or the aggravation of such preexisting illness, disease, or physical injury or abnormality.
(e) Once each year during the first five years following the commencement of a disability benefit under this Code section and once in every three-year period thereafter, the board may require a disability beneficiary to undergo a medical examination, such examination to be made at his place of residence or other place mutually agreed upon, by a physician or physicians designated by the board. Such disability benefit recipient himself may request such an examination. The designated physician or physicians shall report to the board, following each examination, the current status and condition of the benefit recipient's disability.
(3) (A) If, within the first 24 months after the commencement of disability benefits under this Code section, the member does in fact obtain gainful employment in any occupation compensating him, in the case of a firefighter, at 75 percent or more of the compensation for the position he occupied payable at the time of the member's separation from employment because of such disability but increased at the simple rate of 3 percent per annum during the period of such disability or, in the case of a volunteer firefighter, at the rate of $10,000.00 per annum, increased by the simple rate of 3 percent per annum from January 1, 1991.
(g) The board shall prescribe and furnish a form and procedure for the application for a disability benefit. Upon receipt of an application the board may pass upon and decide whether to grant or deny the application on the basis of the submitted information. The board may also request that additional physicians' reports be submitted by the applicant or may request that the applicant for a disability benefit appear personally before the board. Receipt by the applicant of a disability benefit or payments under the federal Social Security Act or any local pension Acts may be considered by the board as evidence of eligibility for a disability benefit under this Code section.
(h) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of Code Section 47-7-124, no action shall be brought or pending action maintained contesting any determination of the board with respect to any matter under this Code section or any predecessor statute unless such action is or had been initiated within one year after the determination of the board.
(i) (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, effective April 1, 1989, the maximum monthly disability benefit for any person who had retired on disability on or after July 1, 1988, shall be $335.00 per month commencing April 1, 1989.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection (i), effective April 1, 1989, the monthly disability benefit to which any person who had retired before July 1, 1988, would be otherwise entitled shall be increased by the amount of $120.00 per month commencing April 1, 1989.
(3) Effective on April 1, 1989, the monthly disability benefit to which any person who retired on disability before April 1, 1989, would be otherwise entitled shall be increased by $120.00 per month commencing April 1, 1989, but such increase shall be paid only for the number of months between July 1, 1988, and April 1, 1989, during which such person received disability benefits after which the payments pursuant to this paragraph shall cease.
(j) (1) Effective July 1, 1990, the maximum monthly disability retirement benefit for any person who retires under this Code section on or after that date shall be $375.00.
(2) Effective July 1, 1990, the maximum monthly retirement benefit which would otherwise be payable to persons retired under this Code section prior to July 1, 1990, shall be increased in the amount of $40.00 per month.
(3) Effective July 1, 2000, the monthly benefit for any member who retires under this Code section shall be no less than $500.00.
(k) Any other provision of this Code section to the contrary notwithstanding, no member who is an active member of the fund on July 1, 1993, and no member who becomes an active member of the fund or who again becomes an active member of the fund on or after July 1, 1993, shall be entitled to any benefits under this Code section; provided, however, that any person who is receiving benefits pursuant to the provisions of this Code section on such date shall continue to be eligible to receive such benefits under the terms and conditions provided in this Code section; provided, further, that any member who has timely given notice to the board or who has timely made application to the board for disability benefits in accordance with this Code section prior to July 1, 1993, shall, upon approval of the application for such benefits, continue to be eligible for such benefits pursuant to the provisions of this Code section.
Ga. L. 1957, p. 323, § 2; Ga. L. 1960, p. 991, § 4; Ga. L. 1961, p. 417, § 4; Ga. L. 1966, p. 242, § 2; Ga. L. 1968, p. 441, § 5; Ga. L. 1970, p. 334, § 2; Ga. L. 1971, p. 332, § 2; Ga. L. 1973, p. 186, § 2; Ga. L. 1976, p. 235, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 608, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 47; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1310, § 4; Ga. L. 1985, p. 209, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 50, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 339, § 4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 554, § 2; Ga. L. 1991, p. 130, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 476, § 6; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1376, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 562, § 8.

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