NY Ret & SS L § 89-R (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-R - Retirement of County Park Police Officers in Suffolk County.

§  89-r.  Retirement of county park police officers in Suffolk county.   a.   Any member who is employed by  Suffolk  county  as  a  park  police   officer  shall  be eligible to retire pursuant to the provisions of this   section.  Such eligibility shall be an alternative  to  the  eligibility   provisions  available under any other plan of this article to which such   member  is  subject.  The  parks  commissioner  of  the  Suffolk  county   department  of  parks shall certify to the comptroller, periodically and   at such intervals of time as may be required of him or her and  in  such   fashion  as  may be prescribed, the identity of the eligible park police   officers in his or her employ.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  or  her   accumulated  contributions  at  the time of his or her retirement and an   additional  pension  which  is   the   actuarial   equivalent   of   the   reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay  to  which  he  or  she may then be   entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or  her  with  a  retirement   allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.d.  As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any and   all services performed as a park police officer of  the  Suffolk  county   department of parks, and any and all services performed as a park ranger   of the Suffolk county department of parks.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.  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  or  her  accumulated   contributions  at  the  time  of his or her retirement and an additional   pension    which    is    the    actuarial     equivalent     of     the   reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay  to  which  he  or  she  may then be   entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or  her  with  a  retirement   allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.g.  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 or her entrance into the armed forces was in the service  of   the county of Suffolk.h. 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.i. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding   any other provision in this article to the contrary.