(40 ILCS 5/8-161.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-161.1)
Sec. 8-161.1.
Limitations on payment of duty and ordinary disability.
(a) Disablement because of commonly termed heart attacks, or strokes, or
any disablement falling within the broad field of coronary involvement or
heart disease, shall not be considered to be the result of an accidental
injury incurred in the performance of duty.
(b) If application for disability benefit is not filed with the
Retirement Board within one year from the date the disability applicant
became disabled or last received salary if salary was continued during the
period of disablement, no disability benefit shall begin to accrue for any
period of time more than one year prior to the date on
which the application
for disability benefit is received by the Board.
(Source: P.A. 86-1488.)
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