§ 36-8-10-15 — Disability benefit program

(a) The department may establish and
operate a disability benefit program for the payment of disability
expense reimbursement and pensions to employee beneficiaries with
a disability. The department may provide these benefits by the creation
of a reserve account, by obtaining disability insurance coverage, or
both. However, the department may not establish or modify a disability
benefit program after June 30, 1989, without the approval of the county
fiscal body which shall not reduce or diminish any disability benefits
set forth in any disability program that was in effect on January 1,
1989.
(b) Benefits payable as a result of line of duty activities, including
a disability presumed incurred in the line of duty under IC 5-10-13,
must be in reasonable amounts. Monthly benefits payable as a result of
other activities may not exceed the amount of pension to which that
employee beneficiary employed until normal retirement age would
have been entitled.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
17-3-14-13.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.61. Amended by
P.L.313-1989, SEC.6; P.L.185-2002, SEC.13; P.L.99-2007, SEC.221;
P.L.1-2010, SEC.151.