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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1764

  • Disability: means a condition which in the determination of the board renders an employee permanently and totally disabled, by bodily injury or disease, leaving him incapable of any employment, provided that such condition is not, directly or indirectly, the result of military service, engaging in a felonious criminal enterprise, habitual drunkenness or use of narcotics, intentionally self-inflicted injury, or declared war or enemy action. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
  • Final compensation: means the average monthly earnings during the highest sixty consecutive months or joined months if service was interrupted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
  • Final salary: means the average monthly earnings of a member during the twelve-month period immediately preceding his death or retirement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732

The actual retirement benefit paid to any retiree of this system at the time of retirement, whether for normal or disability retirement and whether the benefit is the full maximum allowable or reduced due to the selection of an optional mode of benefit payments as allowed by La. Rev. Stat. 11:1757, shall not exceed one hundred percent of the retiree’s final salary or final compensation, whichever is greater.  

Acts 1992, No. 1027, §1.