§88-80 Allowance on retirement for service-connected disability. Upon retirement for service-connected disability, a member shall receive the amount of the member's accumulated contributions and a maximum retirement allowance that shall consist of fifty per cent of the member's average final compensation. [L 1963, c 127, §9; Supp, §6-47.1; HRS §88-70; am L 1969, c 110, pt of §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1998, c 151, §7; am L 2005, c 58, §9] Case Notes If employee totally incapacitated by a service-connected accident, employee should be awarded total disability benefits though employee may have been incapacitated by superimposed subsequent condition; test for total incapacitation; 'odd-lot' doctrine not applicable to determination of total incapacitation. 66 H. 304, 660 P.2d 36. In three year reevaluation of disability, board must consider whether service-connected accident causes employee to be totally incapacitated for employment. 4 H. App. 526, 669 P.2d 638.
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