2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 207-E*2 - Minimum Retirement Benefits for Firefighters in Cities and Who Are Members of Fire Department Pension or Retirement Systems Maintained by Such Cities.

* §  207-e. Minimum retirement benefits for firefighters in cities and
  who are  members  of  fire  department  pension  or  retirement  systems
  maintained  by  such  cities.  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any
  general, special or local law, charter or  administrative  code  to  the
  contrary,  and  in  lieu  of any lesser amount otherwise prescribed, any
  person who is an officer or member of the uniformed force  of  the  fire
  department  of  a  city, and is a member of a fire department pension or
  retirement system maintained by such city, and who has completed service
  as  a  member  of  such  city-maintained  fire  department  pension   or
  retirement system for the minimum number of years specified in such plan
  or  option  selected by him as a necessary prerequisite for a pension or
  retirement allowance on account of retirement for  service  shall,  upon
  retirement  for  service,  receive  a pension or retirement allowance on
  account of such minimum service which shall, subject to  the  provisions
  of  this  section,  be  equal  to  one-half  of  his annual compensation
  earnable upon the date of his retirement.
2. Where a city-maintained  pension  plan  or  retirement  system  for
  officers  or  members  of  the uniformed force of the fire department of
  such city provides,  upon  retirement  for  service,  for  a  retirement
  allowance consisting of a pension plus an annuity which is the actuarial
  equivalent  of the member's accumulated contributions at the time of his
  retirement, then in that  event  there  shall  be  added  by  the  city,
  whenever  required, a further pension of such amount which together with
  the  member's  annuity  shall  be  sufficient  to  provide  him  with  a
  retirement  allowance  equal  to  one-half  of  his  annual compensation
  earnable on the  date  of  his  retirement.  For  the  purpose  only  of
  determining  the  amount  of  the additional pension contribution by the
  city that may be required,  the  member's  annuity,  if  any,  shall  be
  computed  as  it  would  be, (a) if it were not reduced by the actuarial
  equivalent of any outstanding loan, (b) if it were not increased by  the
  actuarial equivalent of any additional contributions, (c) if it were not
  reduced  by  reason  of  the  member's  election to decrease his annuity
  contributions in order to apply the amount of such reduction in  payment
  of  his  contributions for old-age and survivors insurance coverage, (d)
  as it would be without any optional modification.
3. Where a city-maintained  pension  plan  or  retirement  system  for
  officers  or  members  of  the uniformed force of the fire department of
  such city provides for disability retirement, such retirement  allowance
  shall  be  computed  on the basis of the annual compensation earnable on
  the date of the retirement for disability of any member.
4.  Where  additional  retirement  benefits  are  payable  under   the
  city-maintained pension plan or retirement system, or are required to be
  paid  pursuant  to  section  two  hundred  seven-b of this chapter, such
  additional benefits shall be paid, for service in  addition  to  and  in
  excess  of  the minimum service requirements, in addition to the minimum
  retirement benefits required to be paid by this section.
5. The provisions of this section shall not apply to  members  of  the
  New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
* NB There are 2 § 207-e's