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PUBLIC LAW 88-644-OCT. 13, 1964

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Public Law 88-644 AN ACT

October 13, 1964

To modify the retirement benefits of the judges of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

[H. R. 5871]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, Thiit section 11-1701 District of C of the District of C o l u m b i a Code is amended to read as follows: R^^ire^mentAct "§ 11-1701. Retirement,

resignation,

and nonreappointment

o f °^7^st^at. 502.

judges; recall " (a)(1) Any judge of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, any judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (as established by this Act), or any judge of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia who is subject to this subsection shall hereafter be eligible to retire after having served as a judge of such court or courts for a period or periods aggregating ten years or more, whether continuously or not. Any judge who so retires shall receive annually in equal monthly installments, during the remainder of his life, a sum equal to such proportion of the salary received by such judge at the date of such retirement as the total of his aggregate years of service bears to the period of thirty years, the same to be paid in the same manner as the salary of such judge: Provided, That if any such judge shall retire after twenty or more years of service, other than for permanent disability, his retirement salary shall not commence until he shall have reached the age of fifty: Provided further, however, That if any such judge shall retire after less than twenty years of service, other than for permanent disability, his retirement salary shall not commence until he shall have reached the age of sixty-two, except that such judge may elect to receive a reduced retirement salary beginning at the age of nfty-five or at the date of his retirement if subsequent to that age, the reduction in retirement salary in such case to be onehalf of 1 per centum for each month or fraction of a month the judge is under the age of sixty-two at the time of commencement of his reduced retirement salary. I n no event shall the sum received by any judge salary umitaas retirement salary under this subsection be in excess of 80 per centum of the salary of such judge at the date of such retirement. I n computing the years of service under this section, service in either the Police Court of the District of Columbia or the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, or the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, or the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, as heretofore constituted, shall be included whether or not such service be continuous. The terms 'retire' and ti/'^ent'^l,^""' ""^ 'retirement' as used in this section shall mean retirement, resignation, "^^"'^" ' or failure of reappointment upon the expiration of the term of office of an incumbent. "(2) Any judge subject to this subsection may hereafter retire after Disability. having served five years or more and having become permanently disabled from performing his duties. Such ]udge may retire for disability by furnishing to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia a certificate of disability signed by a duly licensed physician and approved by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. A judge who retires for disability under this subsection shall receive annually in equal monthly installments, during the remainder of his life, a sum equal to such proportion of the salary received by such judge at the date of such retirement as the total of his aggregate years of service bears to the period of thirty years, the same to be paid in the

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