NY Ret & SS L § 89-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System Title 9 - Special Retirement Plans Applicable to Specified Classes of Members 89-G - Retirement of County Correction Officers, Uniformed Correction Division Personnel, Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs and Undersheriffs in Nassau County.

§ 89-g. Retirement of county correction officers, uniformed correction   division  personnel,  sheriffs,  deputy  sheriffs  and  undersheriffs in   Nassau county. a. A member employed in Nassau county shall  be  eligible   to  retire  pursuant  to  the provisions of this section if: (1) he is a   sheriff or undersheriff, or a deputy sheriff who is engaged directly  in   criminal  law  enforcement activities; or (2) he is a correction officer   or a uniformed correction division personnel. Such eligibility shall  be   an  alternative  to the eligibility provisions available under any other   plan of this article to which such member is subject.b. Such member shall be entitled to  retire  upon  the  completion  of   twenty-five  years  of total creditable service by filing an application   therefor in the manner provided for in section seventy of this article.c. Upon completion of twenty-five  years  of  such  service  and  upon   retirement,  each  such  member  shall receive a pension which, together   with  an  annuity  which  shall  be  the  actuarial  equivalent  of  his   accumulated   contributions  at  the  time  of  his  retirement  and  an   additional  pension  which  is   the   actuarial   equivalent   of   the   reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay  to  which  he may then be entitled   shall be sufficient to provide him with a retirement allowance equal  to   one-half of his final average salary.d.  As  used in this section "creditable service" shall include (1) in   the case of a sheriff, undersheriff,  correction  officer  or  uniformed   correction  division  personnel,  any  and  all  services performed as a   sheriff, undersheriff and/or correction officer or uniformed  correction   division  personnel  of  Nassau  county and all criminal law enforcement   services performed  as  a  deputy  sheriff  of  such  county,  provided,   however,  that criminal law enforcement service shall only be creditable   when it aggregates fifty per centum or more of his service as  a  deputy   sheriff  and  (2)  in  the  case  of  a deputy sheriff, all criminal law   enforcement service shall only be creditable when  it  aggregates  fifty   per centum or more of such service and any and all services performed as   a   sheriff,   undersheriff   and/or  correction  officer  or  uniformed   correction division personnel of such county.e. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as   a paid firefighter, police officer or  officer  of  any  organized  fire   department  or  police force or department of any county, city, village,   town, fire district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in   the office of  a  district  attorney,  provided  that  service  as  such   investigator  shall  have been rendered prior to January first, nineteen   hundred sixty and that credit therefor  shall  not  exceed  five  years,   shall  also  be deemed to be creditable service and shall be included in   computing years  of  total  service  for  retirement  pursuant  to  this   section,  provided  such  service  was  performed  by  the  member while   contributing to the retirement system pursuant to the provisions of this   article or article eight of this chapter.f. The sheriff shall certify to the comptroller, periodically  and  at   such  intervals of time as may be required of him and in such fashion as   may be prescribed, the identity of:  (1)  the  deputy  sheriffs  in  the   sheriff's  employ  who  are engaged directly in criminal law enforcement   activities; and (2)  the  eligible  correction  officers  and  uniformed   correction division personnel.g.  A member, contributing on the basis of this section at the time of   retirement, shall retire after the completion of  twenty-five  years  of   total  creditable service. Application therefor may be filed in a manner   similar to that provided  in  section  seventy  of  this  article.  Upon   completion  of  twenty-five  years  of such service and upon retirement,   each such member shall receive a pension which, together with an annuity   which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions    at the time of his retirement and an additional  pension  which  is  the   actuarial equivalent of the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay to which   he  may  then  be  entitled  shall  be  sufficient to provide him with a   retirement allowance equal to one-half of his final average salary.h.  In  computing  the  twenty-five years of total service of a member   pursuant to this section full credit shall be given and  full  allowance   shall  be made for service of such member in time of war after World War   I as defined in section two of this chapter, provided such member at the   time of his entrance into the armed forces was in  the  service  of  the   county of Nassau.i. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a member, who does not   retire  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  section, from utilizing   service which is creditable service pursuant to the provisions  of  this   section  for service credit pursuant to the provisions of any other plan   of this article to which such member is subject.j. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding   any other provision in this article to the contrary.