A. The board shall employ the services of a medical authority. The medical authority may examine, make reports of and certify the medical condition of applicants for and recipients of disability benefits pursuant to the Educational Retirement Act. B. The board shall pay the medical authority a reasonable fee for professional services. History: 1953 Comp., § 77-9-8, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 16, § 132; 2017, ch. 21, § 6. ANNOTATIONSThe 2017 amendment, effective June 16, 2017, removed the provision regarding mandatory medical examinations of applicants for and recipients of disability benefits; in Subsection A, after 'The medical authority', deleted 'shall' and added 'may', after 'make reports', added 'of', and after 'certify the', deleted 'physical' and added 'medical'; and in Subsection B, after 'reasonable fee for', deleted 'his'.
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