4.13 Retirement and Modified Service
According to Part One, Chapter III, Section 33 of the UT System Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations, no person employed by the UT System or any component institution shall be required to retire because of age except as permitted by law. A law enforcement officer shall not be employed beyond the end of the fiscal year that includes the officer's seventieth birthday. A pilot shall not be employed beyond the end of the fiscal year that includes the pilot's sixty-fifth birthday.
The Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the appropriate Executive Vice Chancellor, Chancellor and, when appropriate, the chief administrative officer of the affected component institution, may appoint a person who has retired to modified service. Retirement is defined as withdrawal from employment with The University of Texas System or a component institution with a retirement benefit.
Recommendation for and appointment to modified service shall be made only if the service of the individual will result in a significant benefit to the System or a particular component institution.
Appointment to modified service shall be without tenure, for not more than one academic year, and shall not exceed one-half time. The notice provisions of Part One, Chapter III, Subsection 6.7 of the Regents' Rules and Regulations shall not apply to nonrenewal of such appointments. If the System or a component institution determines that it is to the benefit of the System or the institution, it may offer reappointment to modified service.
The duties, work load, salary rate or compensation of an individual on modified service shall be in accordance with policies and procedures of the UT System or the component institution.
Upon recommendation of the appropriate Executive Vice Chancellor, the Chancellor and, when appropriate, the chief administrative officer of the affected component institution, the Board of Regents may, by unanimous vote of the members present, make exceptions to this Section in special cases when the Board finds that the services of a particular individual will be of unique benefit to the System or a component institution.
For a complete statement on the policies and procedures relative to modified service and retirement see the appropriate sections of the Regents' Rules and Regulations.