Sec. 22. Form and duration of disability benefit payments.
22.1. Alternative modes of benefit payments are available pursuant to Section 24.1. Unless the member files a timely election in writing to receive benefits by an alternative mode, the following shall prevail with respect to benefits payable pursuant to Section 21:
a. Members who are unmarried as of the date on which benefits first become payable pursuant to Section 21 shall receive payments in the form of a straight life pension.
b. Participants who are married as of the date as of which benefits first become payable pursuant to Section 21 shall receive benefits in the form of Option A.
c. Except to the extent that continued benefits may be payable by reason of the provisions of Option A or any alternative mode of benefit payment in force, benefits payable pursuant to this Section 22 shall be:
(1) Suspended in the event of the member’s recovery from total and permanent disability with benefits to resume as retirement benefits at the later of
(i) Voluntary or Normal Retirement, or
(ii) The date of the actual retirement unless the member again suffers total and permanent disability prior to Voluntary or Normal Retirement (in which case benefits shall resume upon recurrence of total and permanent disability);
(2) Terminated in the event of the member’s death.
(Election of 10-6-1987)