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Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 11, § 1352. Retirement based on age and years of service

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. (1) Every judge shall retire upon reaching the age of seventy years. If he has served as judge of a court of record for twenty years, he shall receive full pay for life.

(2) However, any judge over the age of seventy years in office on December 31, 1974, may remain in the service until he has served for twenty years or until he has attained the age of eighty years, whichever shall occur first, and he shall then retire. If he has served for less than twenty years he shall receive that proportion of his pay which the number of years served on a court of record bears to twenty.

B. Any judge, upon completing more than twenty-two years of service as a judge of a court of record, may, irrespective of his attained age, retire on two-thirds pay.

C. Any judge may retire on two-thirds pay when he shall have served as a judge of a court of record for twenty years and shall have reached the age of sixty-five years.

D. Any appellate judge may retire upon reaching the age of sixty-five years and receive full pay for life if he has served continuously as a judge for twenty-five years.

E. (1) Any judge, holding judicial office on July 20, 1990, shall be allowed to retire at the end of his present term of office, regardless of age and years of service, provided that such judge does not seek re-election to his current judicial office nor seeks election to another judicial office. The judge, if he has served for less than twenty years, shall receive in benefits that proportion of his pay which his number of years served on a court of record bears to twenty.

(2) Any judge seeking to avail himself of the provisions of Paragraph E(1) shall make application for such retirement within thirty days of July 20, 1990, and such application shall be irrevocable.

F. Any judge to whom this Part is applicable holding judicial office on July 1, 2001, shall be eligible to retire pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 11:558(A)(5)(a)(ii) that are applicable to judges covered by the provisions of this Part, regardless of his age and years of service, but only if he has not yet accrued a benefit equal to one hundred percent of salary and has not been certified by the Supreme Court of Louisiana as eligible for retirement under the provisions of Act No. 1063 of the 1991 Regular Session, as amended (R.S. 11:558(A)(5)). Any such judge shall be paid all benefits and supplemental benefits set forth in R.S. 11:558(A)(5)(a)(ii) for judges covered by this Part from the same source that would apply if the judge were paid benefits pursuant to the provisions of Subsections A through E of this Section.

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