Kan. Stat. § 72-26,107

Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 72-26,107 - Same; retirement and payment; conditions

Any teacher or other public school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of thirty years of teaching experience or other employment, and has attained the age of sixty years, may be retired by the board of education. Any teacher or other public school employee so retired under the foregoing provisions of this section, provided that at least twenty years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment shall have been in the public schools of cities of the first class of the state of Kansas, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund, so long as such teacher or other public school employee may live, equal monthly payments, which shall aggregate one-half of such teacher's or other public school employee's annual salary for the last ten years of such teaching or employment, except that no such teacher or other public school employee who is so retired shall receive more than $1,500 per annum. Any teacher or other public school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of thirty years of teaching experience or employment, but who has not reached the age of sixty years, may be retired by the board of education.

Any teacher or other public school employee so retired under the foregoing provisions of this section, provided that at least twenty years of such accredited teaching experience or other employment shall have been in the public schools of cities of the first class of the state of Kansas, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund, so long as such teacher or other public school employee may live, equal monthly payments, which shall aggregate one-third of such teacher's or other public school employee's annual salary for the last ten years of such teaching or employment, except that no such teacher or other public school employee who is retired prior to reaching sixty years, shall receive more than nine hundred dollars per annum, and no such teacher so retired shall receive less than five hundred dollars per annum, and no other public school employee shall receive less than $365 per annum: Provided, however, That no teacher or other public school employee shall receive either such pension without paying into the fund by way of assessments or otherwise, not less than the amount of the first annual pension to which such person shall be entitled, and in order to make up such an amount the board of education may provide for any deficiency by deducting the necessary amount from the first year's pension payments in equal amounts each month.

K.S.A. 72-26,107

L. 1947, ch. 384, § 3; July 1.

Revisor's Note:

Section transferred from 72-17,101.