Mississippi Code
Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System
§ 25-13-9. Disability retirement

Any former uniformed highway safety patrolman who has had not less than two (2) years of prior service with the Highway Safety Patrol and who was disabled by wounds or accident in line of duty, and who has returned to duty with the Highway Safety Patrol, and who becomes a member of the Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System with prior years' service credits as provided in this chapter, may, if his disability from his previous wounds or accident received in line of duty returns and he again becomes totally and permanently disabled, receive full benefits as a disability retirant for service-connected disability.
Upon the application of a member or his employer, any member who is not yet eligible for service retirement benefits and who has had at least five (5) years of creditable service may be retired by the administrative board, not less than thirty (30) and not more than ninety (90) days next following the date of filing the application, on disability retirement allowance, provided that the Medical Board of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi, after an evaluation of medical evidence, which may include a physical examination by the medical board, certifies that he is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of duty, that the incapacity is likely to be permanent, and that he should be retired. This disability need not be service-connected.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System

§ 25-13-1. Purpose of system

§ 25-13-3. Eligibility for service retirement benefits

§ 25-13-5. Creditable service

§ 25-13-7. Custodian of fund; financing; payment of benefits; maintenance as separate fund

§ 25-13-8. Employer to pay member contributions required for fund; tax treatment; methods of payment

§ 25-13-9. Disability retirement

§ 25-13-11. Retirement allowance; superannuation retirement; annual increase; minimum retirement allowances; waiver of benefits

§ 25-13-11.1. Payment of retirement benefits by the most appropriate means as determined by the board

§ 25-13-12. Additional benefit payments

§ 25-13-14. One-time early retirement for members with twenty years of service

§ 25-13-16. Retirement benefit options; definitions

§ 25-13-17. Credit for prior time served in highway safety patrol, armed forces

§ 25-13-19. Transfer of state retirement annuity fund contributions

§ 25-13-21. Refund of contributions; rollover distribution to retirement plan or account; repayment of refund upon subsequent reentry into service

§ 25-13-22. Retirement system authorized to accept eligible rollover distributions to repay fund or for purchase of optional service credit

§ 25-13-23. Non-covered employees

§ 25-13-25. Administrative board

§ 25-13-27. Cost of administering fund; maintenance and disclosure of records

§ 25-13-28. Interest on employee reserve account

§ 25-13-29. Actuarial valuation

§ 25-13-33. Guaranty; vested rights to benefits; maximum annual retirement allowance