A disabled employee is eligible to receive nonindustrial disability benefits under this article equal to one-seventh of his or her weekly benefit amount specified in Section 89529.17 for each full day during which he or she is unemployed due to a disability only if the Director of Employment Development finds that:

(a) He or she has made a claim for disability benefits as required by authorized regulations.

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(b) He or she has been disabled for a waiting period of seven consecutive days during each disability benefit period with respect to which waiting period no benefits under this article are payable except for confinement in a hospital or nursing home for at least one day.

(c) He or she has exhausted all sick leave to which he or she was entitled under Article 1 (commencing with Section 89501) of this chapter.

(d) Except for an individual described in § 2709 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, he or she has submitted to such reasonable examinations as the Director of Employment Development may require for the purpose of determining his or her mental or physical disability.

(e) He or she has filed a certificate described in Section 2708 or 2709 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.

(f) Except as otherwise provided, he or she meets, in all respects, the eligibility requirements imposed on individuals by Part 2 (commencing with Section 2601) of Division 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code for receipt of umemployment compensation disability benefits.

In case of any conflict between Part 2 (commencing with Section 2601) of the Unemployment Insurance Code and this article, this article shall prevail.

(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 670, Sec. 3.)