43:10-108 - Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident or sickness incurred in service
43:10-108. Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident or sickness incurred in service Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service, which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty, shall, upon the certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon one-half pay. Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures shall for the purposes of this act, be established and determined by a board of three physicians, to be designated for that purpose by the governing body of such county. The three physicians so designated shall examine the said county superintendent of weights and measures so applying for retirement upon one-half pay, because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they or a majority of them find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty, they or a majority of them shall make such finding and certify the same to the clerk of the governing body of such county, and thereupon the governing body shall retire the applicant upon one-half pay.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 985, s. 3.