The normal retirement date for police employees with at least 10
years of credited service (except as noted below) shall be the first
day of the month next following the earlier of the date on which they
complete 26 years of credited service or the appropriate birthday
which occurs in the time period listed in the following table:
For those police employees who have accumulated 26 or more years
of credited service as of June 30, 1989, their normal retirement date
shall be July 1, 1989.
In no event shall a police employee work beyond age 65.
Any police employee with 10 or more years of credited service whose employment with the Town is terminated when or after he reaches the age of 55 but prior to attainment of the normal retirement date shall be eligible, at his option, for either a deferred or immediate early retirement benefit as provided in Article VII, § 51-17 or § 51-18 hereof.
A police employee with 10 or more years of credited service whose employment with the Town is terminated for any reason after July 1, 1987, and prior to the following ages and who elects to leave his own contributions in the plan shall be entitled to a deferred retirement benefit payable according to the provisions of Article VII, § 51-17 hereof:
A police employee with less than 10 years of credited service whose
employment with the Town is terminated (excluding terminations caused
by the death of the employee) shall be entitled to the return of his
own contributions to the plan together with compound interest at the
rate of 5% per annum.
A police employee with 10 or more years of credited service whose employment with the Town is terminated as a result of unavoidable total and permanent disability so as to permanently prevent such employee from engaging in any occupation for remuneration or profit, notwithstanding the fact that such employee may not have attained age 56 prior to July 1, 1987; age 55 effective July 1, 1987; age 54 effective July 1, 1990; age 52 effective July 1, 1993; or age 48 effective July 1, 1995, shall be eligible for a normal retirement benefit as provided in Article VII hereof, said normal retirement benefit to commence not earlier than six months following the date of disability.
A covered police employee shall be deemed to be within the scope
of total and permanent disability only if he is found by the Board
to have been totally disabled by bodily injury or disease so as to
be prevented from engaging in any regular occupation or employment
for remuneration or profit. Such police employee shall be retired
for disability only if the Board shall determine that he will be so
totally and permanently disabled during the remainder of his life
on the basis of an opinion certified by a qualified physician designated
by the Board.
The disability shall be deemed to have resulted from an unavoidable
cause, unless incurred while the covered police employee was engaged
in a criminal enterprise or because of habitual drunkenness, addiction
to narcotics or intentionally self-inflicted injury.
Once each year, the Board shall have the right to require any disability
pensioner who has not reached the normal retirement date to undergo
a medical examination by a physician designated by the Board. Should
any such pensioner refuse to submit to such medical examination, his
disability pension shall be discontinued until his withdrawal of such
refusal, and should his refusal continue for a year, all pension rights
shall terminate. If the Board finds from such medical examination
or otherwise that the incapacity of a disability pensioner has been
removed and that he has regained his earning capacity in whole or
in part, his disability pension shall terminate, provided that the
Town at that time offers him employment.
A total and permanent disability, as referred to in Subsection A above, shall be a service-connected disability if it occurs solely and exclusively as a result of an accident or injury received during the performance of the employee's duties for the Town.
With respect to a police employee who incurs a service-connected
disability which prevents the employee from performing police duties
but which permits him to perform duties required of one or more other
positions of employment with the Town, the Town will use its best
efforts to relocate the employee to another position with the Town
with no reduction in the base salary that the employee was earning
at the time of incurring the disability. The salary of the employee
shall continue at said level until such time as the salary of the
position to which the employee has been relocated exceeds the salary
being paid to the employee, at which time the employee shall receive
the higher salary. If the Town does not have a position which the
employee is capable of filling, the employee shall be eligible for
an amount equal to 50% of the base salary that the employee was earning
at the time of incurring the disability or 2% of said base salary
times the years of credited service, whichever is higher, less the
amount of workers' compensation payments received by the employee
resulting from the service-connected disability.