2023 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-F - Retirement of County Correction Officers in Suffolk County.

§ 89-f. Retirement of county correction officers in Suffolk county. a.
  Any  member  who  is  employed in Suffolk county as a correction 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 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 the eligible correction officers
  in his 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
  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 any and
  all services performed as a correction officer of Suffolk county.
e. As used in this section, "correction officer"  means  a  correction
  officer, warden, deputy warden or chief of staff.
f. 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.
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 Suffolk.
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.