Some retired judges who meet the listed service and assignment conditions must receive full pay at the end of the assignment, and a surviving spouse gets one-half as a pension after the judge’s death.
§1382. Retired judges serving on assignment; pay after completion of assignment A. Any person who was serving as an elected judge of a court of record of this state on November 8, 1960, and who retired after having attained the age of seventy-five years, or who retired before attaining the age of eighty years after having served as an elected judge of a court of record for fifteen years or more but less than twenty years, and, who after retirement was assigned by the supreme court of this state to active duty as a judge of any court of record of this state by one or more than one assignment, and who on September 12, 1975 was serving on such an assignment, and, who served or who will have served by the time of completion of the duties to which he is assigned on September 12, 1975, by assignment or assignments not necessarily by continuous service after retirement for at least five years, which when added to the fifteen years or more served as an elected judge before retirement will total twenty years or more of aggregate service, shall receive, at the termination of the duties to which he is assigned on September 12, 1975, full pay equal to the salary he would have been receiving from the state or any of its political subdivisions as of the date five years after the date he retired. B. Upon the death of any person entitled to benefits under Subsection A hereof, his surviving spouse shall receive one-half of the amount as a pension for the remainder of the life of the spouse. C. The payments to any person entitled to benefits under Subsection A hereof and the pension to the surviving spouse shall be made from the same sources and in the same manner as that from which salary and retirement benefits paid was received. Added by Acts 1975, No. 631, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 13:9 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.