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NY Ret & SS L § 31-F-2 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations 31-F*2 - Participation by the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works.

* § 31-f. Participation by the Northern Westchester joint water works.   a. The Northern Westchester joint water works may, by resolution adopted   by  its  board  of  trustees  and  approved by the comptroller, elect to   participate in the retirement system. Acceptance of  its  employees  for   membership   in  the  retirement  system  shall  be  optional  with  the   comptroller, who shall determine the amounts of contribution payable  by   such  system  and  its  employees, shall resolve questions of credit for   prior service,  and  shall  in  all  other  respects  assure  that  such   employees  share  the  same  rights,  obligations  and benefits as other   members of the retirement system.b. The officers and employees of such water works  shall  be  credited   with  such  periods of prior service as shall be certified by such water   works for service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity   approved by such water works and the comptroller. Service for such water   works after the date  on  which  it  commences  to  participate  in  the   retirement  system  shall be considered as member service. An officer or   employee of such water works who, as  of  the  date  he  or  she  is  so   approved  for  membership  in the retirement system, is already a member   thereof, shall not  have  his  or  her  total  credit  reduced  by  such   approval. Any reserve held on account of any such officer or employee in   the  pension  accumulation  fund  shall be used as an offset against the   deficiency contribution  payable  thereafter  by  such  water  works  on   account of such officer or employee for any prior service credit and any   such previous credit.* NB There are 2 § 31-f's
NY Ret & SS L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations 33 - Election of Certain Optional Retirement Benefits by Participating Employers.

§   33.   Election   of   certain   optional  retirement  benefits  by   participating employers. By the adoption,  filing  and  approval,  where   required,  of  a  resolution  in  the manner provided by section thirty,   section  thirty-one  or  section   thirty-two   of   this   article,   a   participating  employer  may  elect to provide for its own employees the   benefit provided for persons in  the  employ  of  the  state  listed  in   subdivision j of section forty-one and may elect to provide the benefits   provided for employees of participating employers in section sixty-b and   section  seventy-five-i  of  this  article.  Such  election may be for a   limited period if such limitation is included in  the  resolution,  upon   the expiration of which such election will be deemed revoked.
NY Ret & SS L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations 34 - Reporting of Service and Salary Information.

§  34.  Reporting  of service and salary information.  The comptroller   shall adopt rules and regulations, which shall have the force and effect   of law, for the reporting of service  and  salary  information  for  all   employees  of  participating employers. The chief fiscal officer of each   participating employer, or if there be  no  chief  fiscal  officer,  the   officer  exercising  similar  duties,  shall  file  the  report with the   comptroller, in such form and at such times as may be prescribed in  the   rules  and  regulations.  The  refusal  or willful neglect of such chief   fiscal officer or other official to file the report as herein prescribed   shall be a violation and  shall  subject  the  officer  so  refusing  or   neglecting  to  a  penalty  of five dollars per day for each day's delay   beyond seven days, to be paid on demand of the comptroller.
NY Ret & SS L § 45 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 5 - Right to Membership, Service Credit and Transfers Between Retirement Systems 45 - Right to Membership.

§  45.  Right to membership.   Upon the employment of any employee whose   right to membership in a public retirement system of  the  state,  which   for  purposes of this section shall include any public retirement system   other than the New York state teachers' retirement system, has been made   optional by the head of the retirement  system  involved,  the  employer   shall  inform  the  employee in writing of the right to join the system.   Each such employee shall acknowledge  the  receipt  of  such  notice  by   signing  a  copy  thereof  and  filing  it with such employer; provided,   however, the failure to inform such employee shall not  in  any  way  be   construed  to waive the requirement that membership for such an employee   commences only when an application for  membership  is  filed  with  the   system,  nor  shall  it  be  construed  to  waive any of the eligibility   requirements for previous service credit.
NY Ret & SS L § 60-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 60-C - Death Benefit for Vested Members Who Die Prior to Retirement.

§  60-c. Death benefit for vested members who die prior to retirement.   a. A death benefit plus the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay shall be   payable upon the death of a member who:1. Died before the effective date of retirement while a member of  the   retirement system;2.  Had  at  least ten years of credited service at the time of death;   and3. Died at a time and  in  a  manner  which  did  not  result  in  the   eligibility  of  the  member's  estate or any beneficiary to receive any   other retirement system death benefits on account of such death.b. Benefits provided under  this  section  shall  be  payable  to  the   member's  estate  or  the  beneficiary or beneficiaries nominated by the   member on a designation of beneficiary form filed with  the  comptroller   pursuant to section sixty of this title, who would have been eligible to   receive  benefits  if  benefits  had  become  payable  pursuant  to such   section.c. The amount of the benefit payable pursuant to this section shall be   equal to one-half of the amount of  the  ordinary  death  benefit  which   would  have been payable pursuant to section sixty of this title had the   member's death occurred on the last day of service upon which membership   was based.
NY Ret & SS L § 61-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 61-A - Payment of Interest on Death Benefits and Accumulated Contributions.

§ 61-a. Payment   of   interest  on  death  benefits  and  accumulated   contributions. Interest  shall  accrue  against  unpaid  accidental  and   ordinary  death  benefits  plus  the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay   from the date of death of  a  member  until  payment  thereof  is  made.   Interest  shall accrue against accumulated member contributions from the   date of death until payment thereof is made, where no death  benefit  is   payable on account of such death. An application for the payment of such   benefits  must be made in writing on a blank provided by the comptroller   for such purpose. Interest against the unpaid benefit shall  be  at  the   rate  provided  for by subdivision one of section three-a of the general   municipal law.
NY Ret & SS L § 63-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 63-A - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement.

§  63-a.  Performance  of duty disability retirement. a. Any member in   the uniformed personnel in institutions under the  jurisdiction  of  the   department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision  or  a security   hospital treatment assistant, as those terms are defined in  subdivision   i  of  section  eighty-nine  of  this article, who becomes physically or   mentally incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural  and   proximate result of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge   of  his  or  her duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of an   act of  any  incarcerated  individual  or  any  person  confined  in  an   institution  under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and   community supervision or office of mental health, or by any  person  who   has  been  committed  to  such  institution by any court shall be paid a   performance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to that  which   is  provided  in  section  sixty-three  of  this  title,  subject to the   provisions of section sixty-four of this title.b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or   special  law  to  the  contrary,  a  member  covered by this section who   contracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a  bodily  fluid   of  an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a of   this section as a  natural  and  proximate  result  of  an  act  of  any   incarcerated  individual  or  person described in subdivision a that may   have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from  an   incarcerated individual or such person described in subdivision a to the   retirement system member), tuberculosis or hepatitis will be presumed to   have  contracted  such disease in the performance or discharge of his or   her duties, and will be presumed to be disabled from the performance  of   his or her duties, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.* c.  Notwithstanding  any provision of this chapter or of any general   or special law to the contrary, any condition of  impairment  of  health   caused  by  diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to a   member covered by this section, presently employed and  who  shall  have   sustained  such  disability while so employed, who successfully passed a   physical examination on entry into service as a  correction  officer  or   security  hospital  treatment  assistant,  which  examination  failed to   disclose evidence of any disease or other impairment of the heart, shall   be presumptive evidence that it was  incurred  in  the  performance  and   discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.* NB Expired and repealed July 1, 2001. § 480 of Retirement and Social   Security Law extends disability benefits implemented by former § 63-c.
NY Ret & SS L § 63-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 63-B - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement; Certain County Employees.

§  63-b.  Performance  of  duty  disability retirement; certain county   employees. a. A member employed by a county  shall  be  eligible  for  a   performance  of  duty disability retirement if the county elects to make   the benefits provided herein available, as provided for in subdivision d   of  this  section,  and  such  member  is  a  sheriff,  deputy  sheriff,   undersheriff or correction officer.b. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, undersheriff, or correction officer as   defined  in  subdivision  a  of  this section, who becomes physically or   mentally incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural  and   proximate result of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge   of  his  or  her duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of an   act of  any  incarcerated  individual  or  any  person  confined  in  an   institution  under  the  jurisdiction  of  such  county, shall be paid a   performance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to that  which   is  provided  in  section  sixty-three  of  this  title,  subject to the   provisions of section sixty-four of this title.c. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or   special  law  to  the  contrary,  a  member  covered by this section who   contracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a  bodily  fluid   of  an  incarcerated  individual or a person defined in subdivision b of   this section as a  natural  and  proximate  result  of  an  act  of  any   incarcerated  individual  or person described in such subdivision b that   may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from   an incarcerated individual or person described in such subdivision b  to   the  retirement  system  member),  tuberculosis  or  hepatitis  will  be   presumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or discharge   of his or her duties, and will be  presumed  to  be  disabled  from  the   performance  of  his  or  her  duties,  unless the contrary be proved by   competent evidence.d. 1. Each county that elects  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this   subdivision shall pay the cost attributable therefor.2.  The  performance  of  duty  disability  retirement  as  defined in   subdivisions b and  c  of  this  section  shall  be  available  only  to   sheriffs,  deputy  sheriffs, undersheriffs and correction officers whose   employer elects to provide such benefits by  adopting  a  resolution  to   such  effect  and  filing a certified copy thereof with the comptroller.   Such resolution shall be accompanied  by  the  affidavit  of  the  chief   executive officer of the county that the county has received an estimate   from  the  retirement system of the cost of the benefit provided by this   section.3. Such resolution shall apply only to those  members  as  defined  in   subdivisions a and b of this section.
NY Ret & SS L § 63-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 63-C - Disability Benefits.

* § 63-c. Disability benefits. A county may elect to make the benefits   provided  herein available to the sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriffs   who are engaged directly in criminal  law  enforcement  activities,  and   correction officers who are in the employ of the county. Notwithstanding   any  provision  of  this  chapter  or  any general or special law to the   contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused  by  diseases  of   the  heart,  resulting in the disability or death to a member covered by   this section, presently employed  and  who  shall  have  sustained  such   disability  while  so  employed,  who  successfully  passed  a  physical   examination on entry into service as a member covered by  this  section,   which  examination  failed  to disclose evidence of any disease or other   impairment of the heart, shall  be  presumptive  evidence  that  it  was   incurred  in  the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary   can be proved by competent evidence.* NB Repealed July 1, 2001. § 480 of Retirement  and  Social  Security   Law  (as  amended  by  ch.  44/2001  §  2)  extends  disability benefits   implemented by former § 63-c.
NY Ret & SS L § 63-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 63-D

* §  63-d.  Uniformed  court  officers  and  peace  officers;  certain   disabilities. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter  or  of  any   general,  special  or  local  law  to  the contrary, any member who is a   uniformed court officer or peace officer in the unified court system who   contracts any condition of impairment of health caused  by  diseases  of   the  heart,  resulting  in  disability or death to such court officer or   peace officer, presently employed, and who  shall  have  sustained  such   disability  while  so  employed, shall be presumptive evidence that such   disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the   natural and proximate result of an  accident,  unless  the  contrary  be   proved  by  competent  evidence;  provided, however, that prior to entry   into service, such member successfully  passed  a  physical  examination   which  failed to disclose evidence of any disease or other impairment of   the heart.* NB Repealed July 1,  2005.  §  480  of  the  retirement  and  social   security law (as amended by ch. 92/2003 § 2) extends disability benefits   implemented by former § 63-c.
NY Ret & SS L § 63-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 63-F - Disability Benefits; Westchester County District Attorney Investigators.

§  63-f.  Disability  benefits;  Westchester  county district attorney   investigators. The county of Westchester may elect to make the  benefits   provided  in  this  section  available to criminal investigators, senior   criminal investigators, deputy chief criminal investigators,  and  chief   criminal  investigators  who are in the employ of the Westchester county   district attorney. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or  any   general  or  special law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of   health caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in the  disability  or   death  to  a  member covered by this section, presently employed and who   shall have sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully   passed a physical examination on entry into service as a member  covered   by  this  section,  which examination failed to disclose evidence of any   disease or other impairment of the heart, shall be presumptive  evidence   that  it  was  incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless   the contrary can be proved by competent evidence.
NY Ret & SS L § 64 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement 64 - Payment of Both Pensions for Accident and Other Benefits Prohibited.

§  64.  Payment  of  both  pensions  for  accident  and other benefits   prohibited.  a. If any benefits under the workers' compensation law  may   be  or  become  payable  as  the  result  of  accidental  disability  or   accidental death, no payment of any benefit shall be  made  pursuant  to   this  article  on  account of such disability or death until there shall   have been a final determination of the claim for  workers'  compensation   benefits.    Pending  such final determination, however, the comptroller   may authorize payment of all or any part of the benefits  payable  under   this  chapter, and in that event, shall be entitled to reimbursement out   of the unpaid installment or installments of compensation due under  the   workers' compensation law provided that claim therefor is filed pursuant   to  the  provisions  of  such law. Any pension, payable pursuant to this   article on account of any such disability or death, shall be reduced  by   the  amount  of  the  benefits that are finally determined to be payable   under the workers' compensation law by  reason  of  such  disability  or   death.  Such reduction shall be effectuated as follows:1.  Pension  installments  shall  be  reduced  by  the  amount  of the   concurrent workers' compensation benefits.2. The pension reserve on account of a pension  so  payable  shall  be   reduced by the amount of the lump sum workers' compensation benefits. In   such  case  the  pension  thereafter  payable  shall  be  the  actuarial   equivalent of the pension reserve as so reduced.No such reduction shall be made, however, for the amount  of  medical,   surgical,  or other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service,   medicine, crutches or apparatus and  of  any  funeral  expense  provided   under  the workers' compensation law in addition to regular compensation   benefits, or of any legal fees awarded under the  workers'  compensation   law.b.  A  final  determination  of the state workmen's compensation board   that benefits are payable pursuant to the workmen's compensation law  by   reason  of  the accidental disability or accidental death of a member of   the retirement system shall not in any  respect  be,  or  constitute,  a   determination  that  an accidental disability retirement allowance or an   accidental death benefit is payable on account thereof pursuant  to  the   provisions of this article.
NY Ret & SS L § 72 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 8 - General Provisions Relating to Retirement; Retirement Plans Applicable to Members Generally 72 - Optional Retirement at Age Fifty-Five; Closed Plan.

§ 72. Optional retirement at age fifty-five; closed plan.  a. A member   of  the  retirement  system  under age fifty-five who elected before May   fifteenth, nineteen hundred  fifty,  to  contribute  to  the  retirement   system  pursuant  to this section shall make additional contributions to   the annuity savings fund over and above those required  to  be  made  by   section  twenty-one  of  this  article.  The  rate  of  such  additional   contributions shall be computed in a manner similar to that provided  by   such section twenty-one. Such rate shall be computed to be sufficient to   provide  an  annuity  at such age which, with the total pension provided   for by subdivision b  of  section  seventy-five  of  this  article  will   produce  a  retirement  allowance  of  one-sixtieth of his final average   salary  for  each  year  of  his  total  service.  A  member's  rate  of   contribution pursuant to this section shall be appropriately reduced for   such    period    of   time   as   his   employer   contributes   toward   pensions-providing-for-increased-take-home-pay   pursuant   to   section   seventy-a  of this article. A retirement allowance, computed as provided   in subdivision b of such section seventy-five, shall be payable upon the   retirement of such member after he has attained age fifty-five.b. If any such member elected to contribute on the basis of retirement   at age fifty-five after he had been credited with twenty or  more  years   of  allowable  service, he may pay the additional contributions provided   for by subdivision a of this section at any time within one  year  after   he makes such election and prior to his retirement.c.  One  year  or more after the filing thereof, a member may withdraw   his election to contribute on the basis of retirement at age  fifty-five   pursuant  to  this  section.  Such withdrawal shall be by written notice   duly  acknowledged  and  filed  with  the  comptroller.    Such   member   thereafter  shall  contribute  on  the basis of retirement at age sixty.   Such member, upon application before retirement and with the approval of   the comptroller, shall be entitled to a refund  of  the  amount  of  his   contributions  and  interest thereon which is in excess of the amount of   the accumulated contributions which he would then have to his credit had   he been contributing on the basis of retirement at age sixty.d. On or after May fifteenth, nineteen hundred fifty, no election  may   be made to contribute pursuant to this section.e. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding   any provision in this article to the contrary.