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title: O.C.G.A. § 47-12-84. Disability retirement; determination of disability; continuation of payments to the fund.
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# O.C.G.A. § 47-12-84. Disability retirement; determination of disability; continuation of payments to the fund.

Any district attorney who, after 17 years of continuous service and the payment of amounts due under this chapter, becomes unable to perform his official duties because of ill health or other causes may retire under this chapter, provided that he is so certified by the judges of his judicial circuit and two physicians. Any such district attorney shall continue his pro rata payments to the fund for the term as set forth in Code Section 47-12-41.

## History

Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 211, § 1.