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476.535 .  Upon request of the board the consultant shall give opinions or be available to give opinions in writing or orally in response to such requests.  As compensation the consultant shall receive, beginning on the date the deceased judge would have been eligible to receive an annuity, an annual amount equal to one-half of the compensation the judge would receive as if the judge was eligible to retire with a full annuity on the date of the judge's death.   3.  Upon application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system, a surviving spouse, under subsection 1 of section