Section 23-6-101 - Persons eligible for benefits(1) This article shall apply to all presidents, deans, professors, administrators, instructors, and research workers, referred to in this article as "faculty members", retired from service of state institutions of higher education in Colorado, to their dependent surviving spouses, and to the surviving spouses of said faculty members who have died in service after ten or more years of employment in said state institutions.(2) Any faculty members applying for benefits under this article: (a) Shall have served as such faculty member at least fifteen years in one or more state institutions of higher education in Colorado, shall be at least sixty-five years of age, and shall have retired prior to July 1, 1962;(b) Shall have retired at any age and at any time, at the initiative of the Colorado institution where last serving, for disability regarded as rendering such faculty member unfit for further service if such faculty member has served at least fifteen years and the president of the institution so retiring such member certifies to the commissioner of education as to the disability of such member;(c) Shall, prior to July 1, 1962, have attained the age of sixty years and shall, upon the date of his retirement, have served at least twenty years; or(d) Shall, prior to July 1, 1962, have attained the age of sixty years and shall, upon the date of his retirement, have served at least ten but less than twenty years.(3) Any surviving spouse of any deceased faculty member applying for benefits under this article: (a) Shall have been married to said faculty member on the date on which eligibility of said member for retirement benefits under this article was established under the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (2) of this section;(b) Shall have been married to said faculty member on the date on which eligibility of said member for retirement benefits under this article was established under the provisions of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of this section;(c) Shall have been married to said faculty member who died in service after twenty years of employment in state institutions of higher education in Colorado;(d) Shall have been married to said faculty member who died in service after ten or more years of employment in state institutions of higher education in Colorado;L. 54: p. 160, § 1. CRS 53: § 124-17-1. L. 57: p. 717, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 124-16-1. L. 67: p. 727, § 1.