§ 62-199. Retirement for nonduty disability.

(a)

When a member becomes totally and permanently unable to perform the duties of the member's regular job or similar job offered by the city utilizing the member's training, education or work experience, as the proximate result of a personal injury or disease not arising out of and in the course of the member's actual performance of work duties as an employee, such member shall be retired by the board, as provided in this article. No member shall be retired as the result of a nonduty disability unless and until a doctor's certificate shall be filed with the board as provided in section 62-190. The doctor shall certify that such member is mentally or physically totally and permanently incapacitated in the further performance of the member's work duties in the employ of the city.

(b)

No member shall be retired by the board for reason of a nonduty disability if the disability was self-inflicted by the member or was brought about by the member during the commission of a crime for which the member has been convicted.

(Code 1979, § 2-314.1.24)