Upon the application of a member or his or her department head, a member who has ten or more years of credited service and has become or becomes totally and permanently incapacitated for duty in the service of the City as a result of causes otherwise than in the course of his or her actual performance of duty in the service of the City may be retired by the Retirement Board after a medical examination of such member is made by or under the direction of a medical committee. Such committee shall consist of three physicians, one of whom shall be named by the Board, one by the member and the third by the first two physicians so named. Such committee, by majority opinion, in writing, shall certify to the Board that the member is mentally or physically totally incapacitated for the further performance of his or her duty in the service of the City, that his or her incapacity will probably be permanent and that he or she should be retired.
(1979 Code Sec. 2.80.180)