ORS 238.345: Optional service-connected disability retirement allowance for police officers and firefighters.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
(1) A police officer or firefighter, other than a volunteer firefighter, who would be entitled to receive disability benefits as a member of the Public Employees Retirement System under ORS 238.320 (1), may elect to receive the service-connected disability retirement allowance authorized under this section. The allowance authorized under this section is an amount equal to 50 percent of the police officer’s or firefighter’s final average salary as determined at the date of the injury causing the disability. If elected, the allowance authorized under this section is in lieu of any service-connected disability retirement benefit available under this chapter. (2) The election to receive the benefits authorized under subsection (1) of this section shall be made within 90 days after the board makes its decision that the police officer or firefighter is disabled. The election once made shall not be changed. (3) A police officer or firefighter electing to receive the benefits authorized under subsection (1) of this section may elect to convert those benefits to a service-connected disability retirement annuity of equivalent actuarial value as provided in ORS 238.325. (4) Nothing in this section shall interfere with the right of a police officer or firefighter to receive a disability retirement allowance under this chapter for disability not incurred in the line of duty. [Formerly 237.173]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 459-005-0005: Amendments to Retirement Law — implements
- OAR 459-005-0100: Definitions — Member’s Fiduciary — implements
- OAR 459-005-0110: Fiduciary Document Requirements — implements
- OAR 459-005-0130: Termination of Member’s Fiduciary — implements
- OAR 459-005-0140: Permissible Actions Under A Fiduciary Document — implements
- OAR 459-005-0150: Effective Date of Fiduciary Document Rules — implements
- OAR 459-005-0180: Incapacity of Members, Beneficiaries, and Alternate Payees — implements
- OAR 459-005-0210: Transmission of Information, Reports, and Documents — implements
- OAR 459-005-0215: Transmittal of Remittances or Payments — implements
- OAR 459-005-0530: Limitation for Employers with Multiple Retirement Plans — for Contributions and Distributions Before January 1, 2000 — implements
- OAR 459-005-0535: Annual Benefit Limitation — implements
- OAR 459-005-0540: Permissive Service Credit — implements
- OAR 459-005-0545: Annual Addition Limitation — implements
- OAR 459-005-0560: Required Minimum Distributions, Generally — implements
- OAR 459-005-0590: General Provisions and Applicability Date — Direct Rollovers — implements
- OAR 459-010-0078: Volunteer Service — implements
- OAR 459-015-0000: Purpose — implements
- OAR 459-015-0001: Definitions — implements
- OAR 459-015-0005: Eligibility for Disability Retirement Allowances — implements
- OAR 459-015-0020: Application Required — implements
- OAR 459-015-0030: Hearings on Denial or Discontinuance of Disability Retirement Allowances — implements
This rule cites
- ORS 238.320 — resolved
- ORS 238.325 — resolved
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Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors238.html