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§47-2-309.


§47-2-309.
   
   Claims for pensions, retirement pay, medical expenses, hospital
   expenses, and any other allowances or benefits provided for under the
   System shall be allowed and paid only upon application therefor signed
   and verified by the affidavit of the person claiming to be entitled
   thereto, filed with the Board. All such claims shall be presented at
   the first regular meeting of the Board, or a special meeting called
   for that purpose by the President and Secretary of the Board, and no
   claim shall be approved or allowed except by vote of a majority of the
   Board. The Board shall have full power and authority to determine all
   questions of eligibility for membership in the System, eligibility for
   retirement, eligibility to continue membership, injury, illness,
   disability, the extent of disability, the percentage of disability,
   ability or inability to perform the duties connected with any
   employment, age, length of service, credits for service, and, in
   connection with determining any such question, may secure and pay for
   the services of a minimum of two physicians or surgeons to make an
   examination of the member or applicant and report upon such matter.
   The proceedings of the Board shall be kept by the Secretary of the
   Board and reduced to writing in books kept for that purpose and shall
   include all claims filed, allowed or rejected and a copy of each
   resolution, action or order of the Board. Any objection to the
   allowance or disallowance of any claim presented to the Board shall be
   presented to the Board within thirty (30) days after notification of
   such allowance or disallowance, and, the Board shall set a date for
   hearing thereon and shall cause written notice of such hearing to be
   mailed to the claimant and to the contestant, if the contestant be one
   other than a member of the Board, not less than ten (10) days prior to
   such hearing, at which hearing evidence bearing upon the propriety and
   correctness of the claim may be introduced. Any and all evidence
   introduced upon such a hearing shall be taken and transcribed by, or
   under the supervision of, the Secretary of the Board, and a copy
   thereof, together with a copy of the order or decision of the Board,
   shall be kept as a part of the official record of the Board. Any
   person aggrieved by any action of the Board may appeal to the district
   court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, by filing in the office of the
   court clerk of said county, within thirty (30) days after the signing
   and filing of the Board's written decision or order in the matter, a
   petition setting forth such order or decision and the grounds upon
   which such appeal is taken, together with a true and complete
   transcript of the proceedings before the Board, and causing summons to
   be issued and served, as in civil actions, upon the President of the
   Board. Said district court is hereby vested with final appellate
   jurisdiction in such matters, shall try the same wholly upon the
   transcript of the proceedings before the Board, and shall act solely
   as an appellate court in such proceedings.
   

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