§ 9-3-611 — Eligibility and amount of disability allowance

(a) Any employee who suffers a partial or total disability
resulting from an individual and specific act, the type of which
would normally occur only while employed as an employee, is
eligible for a duty-connected disability allowance. If the
specific act involves a traumatic event which directly causes an
immediate cardiovascular condition resulting in partial or total
disability, the employee is eligible for a partial or total
duty-connected disability allowance.
(b) Any employee with ten (10) years of credited service
who suffers a partial or total disability and who is not
eligible for a duty-connected disability allowance is eligible
for an ordinary partial or total disability allowance.
(c) The determination of disability and its cause shall be
made by the board after receiving the recommendation of its
medical committee.
(d) Disability allowances shall be fifty percent (50%) of
highest average salary for nonduty connected total or partial
disability. Disability allowances shall be sixty-two and one-
half percent (62.5%) of highest average salary for duty-
connected total or partial disability.