§ 43:8A-10 — Application for disability retirement allowance; medical examinations of persons retired on disability retirement allowance

(1) Upon the receipt by the board of trustees of a written application for a disability retirement allowance, the board shall refer the application to the medical board, which shall examine the applicant and the report of the medical board shall be considered by the board of trustees in acting upon such application. (2) Any beneficiary under the age of fifty-five years who has been retired on a disability retirement allowance under this act, on his request may be given a medical examination and he shall submit to an examination by the medical board within the State, or to an examination by a physician or physicians designated by the medical board at such place to be mutually agreed upon, twice a year for a period of three years and once a year thereafter in order to determine whether or not the disability which existed at the time he was retired has vanished or has materially diminished. If the report of the medical board shall show that such beneficiary is able to perform either his former duty or any other available duty in the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control which his employer is willing to assign to him, the beneficiary shall report for duty within ten days. If the beneficiary fails to submit to any such medical examination or fails to return to duty within ten days after being ordered so to do, or within such further time as may be allowed by the commission for valid reason, as the case may be, the pension shall be discontinued during such default. A beneficiary shall immediately advise the board of trustees of any change in his residence. L.1953, c. 423, p. 2133, s. 10.