2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 476.445. — Disability retirement of supreme court and court of appeals commissioners--hearing--compensation.

476.445. 1. Any commissioner of the supreme court or commissioner of a court of appeals who is unable to discharge the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of continued sickness or physical or mental infirmity shall be retired from office upon the en banc order of the court appointing him.

2. No order retiring a commissioner shall be entered without the commissioner involved having been given due notice and an opportunity to be heard and without a finding by a majority of the court involved that the commissioner's disability is permanent.

3. Any commissioner retired under the provisions of this section shall receive as compensation during such retirement and until the end of the term for which he was appointed a sum equal to one-half of the regular compensation for that office.

4. Any commissioner retired under the provisions of this section shall not be eligible to be made, constituted and appointed a special commissioner as provided in sections 476.450 to 476.510 (nor to receive the compensation provided therefor by sections 476.450 to 476.510) during the period of his retirement under the provisions of this section but upon the completion of such period he shall be and become eligible to be made, constituted and appointed a special commissioner as provided in sections 476.450 to 476.510 if he be otherwise qualified as to age and length of service.

(L. 1963 p. 656 § 1)