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-SS - Retirement of Members Employed as an Emergency Medical Technician, Critical Care Technician, Advanced Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic or Supervisor of Such Titles in a Participating Suffolk County Fire District.

§  89-ss.  Retirement  of  members  employed  as  an emergency medical
  technician,  critical  care  technician,  advanced   emergency   medical
  technician,  paramedic  or  supervisor of such titles in a participating
  Suffolk county fire district. a. Any member  employed  as  an  emergency
  medical technician, critical care technician, advanced emergency medical
  technician, paramedic or supervisor of such titles upon an election by a
  participating  Suffolk  county fire district 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.
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 an emergency medical technician, critical care
  technician,  advanced  emergency  medical   technician,   paramedic   or
  supervisor  of  such  titles  employed by a participating Suffolk county
  fire district.
e. Credit for  service  as  a  paid  firefighter  or  officer  of  any
  organized  fire department shall also be deemed to be creditable service
  and shall be included in computing years of total service for retirement
  pursuant to this section.
f. A member contributing on the basis of this section at the  time  of
  retirement,  may  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
  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;  for
  service   beyond   twenty-five   years   the  benefit  is  increased  by
  one-sixtieth of final average salary for each year of additional service
  credit provided, however, that the total allowance payable  pursuant  to
  this  section  shall  not  exceed  three-fourths  of such member's 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 employed by a
  participating Suffolk county fire district.
h. Nothing in this section 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 of this article to the contrary.
j. Any member who, on or before the effective date of this section, is
  employed  as  an emergency medical technician, critical care technician,
  advanced emergency medical technician, paramedic or supervisor  of  such
  titles in a participating Suffolk county fire district may, by filing an
  election within one year after the effective date of this section, elect
  to  be subject to the provisions of this section. Such election shall be
  in writing, shall be duly executed and filed with  the  comptroller  and
  shall be irrevocable.