If an employee of any state institution, agency, or department elects to retire under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, if eligible to do so at the time it is ascertained that he has contracted tuberculosis or infectious hepatitis, the compensation authorized under Code Section 31-29-1 shall not be paid.
(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 513, § 5; Code 1933, § 88-2405, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 737, § 1.)