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2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 607-A - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement.

§  607-a.  Performance  of duty disability retirement. a. Any security
  hospital treatment assistant, as that term is defined in  subdivision  i
  of  section  eighty-nine  of  this  chapter,  who  becomes physically or
  mentally incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural  and
  proximate  result,  of  an  injury,  sustained  in  the  performance  or
  discharge of his or her duties by,  or  as  the  natural  and  proximate
  result  of,  an  act  of any person confined in an institution under the
  jurisdiction of the office of mental health, or by any  person  who  has
  been  committed  to  such  institution  by  any  court  shall  be paid a
  performance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to that  which
  is  provided  in  section  sixty-three  of  this chapter, subject to the
  provisions of section sixty-four of this chapter.
b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or
  special  law  to  the  contrary,  a  member  covered by this section who
  contracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a  bodily  fluid
  of  an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a of
  this section as a  natural  and  proximate  result  of  an  act  of  any
  incarcerated  individual  or person described in such subdivision a that
  may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from
  an incarcerated individual or such person described in such  subdivision
  a  to  the  retirement system member), tuberculosis or hepatitis will be
  presumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or discharge
  of his or her duties, and will be  presumed  to  be  disabled  from  the
  performance  of  his  or  her  duties,  unless the contrary be proved by
  competent evidence.
c. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or
  special  law  to  the  contrary,  any  condition of impairment of health
  caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death  to  a
  member  covered  by  this section, presently employed and who shall have
  sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully  passed  a
  physical  examination  on  entry  into  service  as  a security hospital
  treatment assistant, which examination failed to  disclose  evidence  of
  any  disease  or  other  impairment  of  the heart, shall be presumptive
  evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of  duty,
  unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 607-D - Disability Benefits.

§  607-d. Disability benefits. A county may elect to make the benefits
  provided herein available to the sheriff, undersheriff, deputy  sheriffs
  who  are  engaged  directly  in criminal law enforcement activities, and
  correction officers who are in the employ of the county. Notwithstanding
  any provision of this chapter or any  general  or  special  law  to  the
  contrary,  any  condition  of impairment of health caused by diseases of
  the heart, resulting in the disability or death to a member  covered  by
  this  section,  presently  employed  and  who  shall have sustained such
  disability  while  so  employed,  who  successfully  passed  a  physical
  examination  on  entry into service as a member covered by this section,
  which examination failed to disclose evidence of any  disease  or  other
  impairment  of  the  heart,  shall  be  presumptive evidence that it was
  incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless  the  contrary
  can be proved by competent evidence.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 607-F - Payment of Both Pensions for Accident and Other Benefits Prohibited; Westchester County District Attorney Investigators.

§  607-f.  Payment  of  both  pensions for accident and other benefits
  prohibited; Westchester county district attorney  investigators.  a.  If
  any  benefits  under  the  workers'  compensation  law  may be or become
  payable as the result of accidental disability or accidental  death,  no
  payment of any benefit shall be made pursuant to this article on account
  of  such  disability  or  death  until  there  shall  have  been a final
  determination of the claim for workers' compensation  benefits.  Pending
  such final determination, however, the comptroller may authorize payment
  of  all  or  any part of the benefits payable under this chapter and, in
  that event, shall  be  entitled  to  reimbursement  out  of  the  unpaid
  installment  or  installments  of  compensation  due  under the workers'
  compensation law; provided that claim therefor is filed pursuant to  the
  provisions of such law. Any pension, payable pursuant to this article on
  account  of any such disability or death, shall be reduced by the amount
  of the benefits that are finally determined  to  be  payable  under  the
  workers'  compensation  law  by reason of such disability or death. Such
  reduction shall be effectuated as follows:
1. Pension  installments  shall  be  reduced  by  the  amount  of  the
  concurrent workers' compensation benefits.
2.  The  pension  reserve  on account of a pension so payable shall be
  reduced by the amount of the lump sum workers' compensation benefits. In
  such case,  the  pension  thereafter  payable  shall  be  the  actuarial
  equivalent of the pension reserve as so reduced. No such reduction shall
  be  made,  however,  for  the  amount  of  medical,  surgical,  or other
  attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicine, crutches,
  or apparatus, and of any funeral expense  provided  under  the  workers'
  compensation law in addition to regular compensation benefits, or of any
  legal fees awarded under the workers' compensation law.
b. A final determination of the state workers' compensation board that
  benefits are payable pursuant to the workers' compensation law by reason
  of  the  accidental  disability  or  accidental death of a member of the
  retirement system  shall  not  in  any  respect  be,  or  constitute,  a
  determination  that  an accidental disability retirement allowance or an
  accidental death benefit is payable on account thereof pursuant  to  the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 607-H - Disability Benefits; Westchester County District Attorney Investigators.

§  607-h.  Disability  benefits;  Westchester county district attorney
  investigators. The county of Westchester may elect to make the  benefits
  provided  in  this  section  available to criminal investigators, senior
  criminal investigators, deputy chief criminal investigators,  and  chief
  criminal  investigators  who are in the employ of the Westchester county
  district attorney. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or  any
  general  or  special law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of
  health caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in the  disability  or
  death  to  a  member covered by this section, presently employed and who
  shall have sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully
  passed a physical examination on entry into service as a member  covered
  by  this  section,  which examination failed to disclose evidence of any
  disease or other impairment of the heart, shall be presumptive  evidence
  that  it  was  incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless
  the contrary can be proved by competent evidence.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 607-L - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement; Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.

§  607-l.  Performance  of  duty  disability  retirement;  division of
  homeland security  and  emergency  services.  a.  Any  employee  of  the
  division of homeland security and emergency services in the title series
  fire   protection   specialist   who   becomes  physically  or  mentally
  incapacitated for the performance of duty as the natural  and  proximate
  result  of an injury sustained in the performance or discharge of his or
  her duties shall be paid a performance  of  duty  disability  retirement
  allowance  equal  to  that which is provided in section sixty-three-b of
  this chapter.
b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general  or
  special  law  to  the  contrary,  any  condition of impairment of health
  caused by diseases of the heart resulting in disability or death  to  an
  employee  covered  by  this  section  presently  employed who shall have
  sustained such disability while so employed and who successfully  passed
  a  physical  examination on entry into service, which examination failed
  to disclose evidence of any disease or other impairment  of  the  heart,
  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  that  such  disease  or impairment was
  incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless  the  contrary
  be proved by competent evidence.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 611 - Optional Retirement Program.

§ 611. Optional retirement program. a. Any optional retirement program
  authorized  by  state law which, on the day before the effective date of
  this article, would be available to an eligible employee subject to  the
  provisions of article eleven of this chapter in lieu of joining a public
  retirement  system  of  the  state,  will  continue  to  be available to
  eligible employees subject  to  this  article  during  the  period  this
  article is in effect.
c.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  as permitting an
  employee who previously elected coverage under  an  optional  retirement
  program to elect coverage under a public retirement system of the state.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 615 - Duration.

§  615. Duration. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter
  or of any other law, the provisions of article fourteen of this  chapter
  shall  no  longer  apply  to members to whom this article applies on the
  date article  fifteen  of  this  chapter  becomes  effective,  provided,
  however,  any  member  who  has  retired  pursuant  to the provisions of
  article fourteen of this chapter  before  the  effective  date  of  this
  article or any beneficiary of such a member or a beneficiary of a member
  who  dies  before the effective date of this article and who is entitled
  to a death benefit pursuant to article fourteen of  this  chapter  shall
  receive  such benefits pursuant to the provisions of article fourteen of
  this chapter, except as provided pursuant to the provisions  of  section
  six hundred seventeen of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 616 - Transfer of Membership.

§  616. Transfer of membership. Any employee of the board of education
  of the city of New York who is a member of the New York city  employees'
  retirement  system may elect to transfer membership to the New York city
  board of education retirement system.  Any  election  pursuant  to  this
  section  shall  be made no later than the one hundred eightieth day next
  succeeding the date on which the provisions hereof become effective,  by
  filing  a written notice thereof with the administrative head of the New
  York city employees' retirement system and the New York  city  board  of
  education  retirement  system  and,  once  made and filed, such election
  shall be irrevocable. Where  an  employee  of  the  board  of  education
  becomes  a  member  of  the  New York city board of education retirement
  system pursuant to this section the New York city employees'  retirement
  system  shall make a transfer of reserves, contributions, and credits to
  the New York city board of education retirement  system  in  the  manner
  required by section forty-three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15 - Coordinated Retirement Plan › 617 - Recalculation of Benefits.

§  617.  Recalculation  of  benefits.  a.  Notwithstanding  any  other
  provision of law, any person who has retired pursuant to the  provisions
  of  article  fourteen  of this chapter on or before August thirty-first,
  nineteen hundred eighty-three, whether for  service  retirement  or  for
  ordinary  or  accidental disability retirement, may elect to have his or
  her retirement benefits recalculated pursuant to this article, from such
  person's date of retirement; provided,  however,  such  person  was  not
  employed  in a position excluded from the application of this article by
  paragraphs one through five of subdivision a of section six  hundred  of
  this  article.  The  recalculation  of  benefits shall be based upon the
  option selection originally filed for retirement.
b. To elect  the  recalculation,  such  person  shall,  on  or  before
  December  thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, file a request for
  such recalculation with the appropriate retirement system  in  the  form
  and manner prescribed by the head of such retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15-A - Benefit Limitations; Federal Internal Revenue Code › 620 - Benefit Limitations.

§  620.  Benefit limitations.  1. Notwithstanding any other law to the
  contrary, for all members of a public retirement  system  to  which  the
  state  or a municipality contributes who join on or after January first,
  nineteen hundred ninety, the benefits payable shall be  subject  to  the
  limitations  set  forth  in section four hundred fifteen of the Internal
  Revenue Code.
2. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, for all members of a
  public  retirement  system  to  which  the  state  or   a   municipality
  contributes  who joined prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety,
  the benefits payable shall be subject to the greater  of  the  following
  limitations  as  provided in paragraph ten of subdivision (b) of section
  four hundred fifteen of the Internal Revenue Code:
a. the limitations set forth in section four hundred  fifteen  of  the
  Internal Revenue Code, or
b.  the  accrued  benefit  of the member without regard to any benefit
  increases pursuant to a plan amendment adopted after October fourteenth,
  nineteen hundred eighty-seven.
3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any benefit which has  been  limited
  by  either  the dollar or compensation limitations of section 415 of the
  Internal Revenue Code shall be increased for cost-of-living  adjustments
  of  such  limitations  pursuant  to  such  section  and  the  applicable
  regulations thereunder, provided, however, the benefit shall not  exceed
  the  benefit  otherwise  payable  but  for  the  limitations of Internal
  Revenue Code section 415.
4. Notwithstanding any other law, the limitation year of the New  York
  state teachers' retirement system for the purposes of section 415 of the
  Internal Revenue Code shall be the period commencing on the first day of
  July  of  each  year  and  ending  on  the  thirtieth  day  of June next
  following.
5. Notwithstanding any other law, the limitation year of the New  York
  state  and local employees' retirement system and the New York state and
  local police and fire retirement system for the purposes of section  415
  of the Internal Revenue Code shall be the period commencing on the first
  day  of  April  of each year and ending on the thirty-first day of March
  next following.
6. Notwithstanding any other law, the limitation years of the New York
  city  employees'  retirement  system,  the  New  York   city   teachers'
  retirement  system,  the  New  York  city  board of education retirement
  system, the New York city police pension fund and the New York city fire
  department pension fund for the purposes of section 415 of the  Internal
  Revenue  Code shall be the period commencing on the first day of July of
  each year and ending on the thirtieth day of June next following.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 15-C - Compensation Limitations: Federal Internal Revenue Code › 640 - Excess Benefit Plan.

§  640.  Excess  Benefit Plan. 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the
  contrary, the New York state and local employees' retirement system  and
  the  New  York  state  and  local  police and fire retirement system are
  hereby authorized to establish an excess benefit plan. The plan or plans
  shall constitute a qualified governmental excess benefit  plan  pursuant
  to section 415(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.
2.  Such  plan  or  plans  are  created  for  the purpose of providing
  benefits  to  members  of  the  New  York  state  and  local  employees'
  retirement  system  and  the  New  York  state and local police and fire
  retirement system, whose benefits would otherwise be limited by  section
  415 of the Internal Revenue Code.
3.  The  comptroller, as administrative head of the New York state and
  local employees' retirement system and the  New  York  state  and  local
  police and fire retirement system, is authorized to promulgate rules and
  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the  provisions  of  this article
  including the actual terms and conditions of the excess benefit plan  or
  plans.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 16 - Reduction in Retirement Age for Certain Members › 650 - Application.

§  650.  Application.  This article shall apply to a member of the New
  York city employees' retirement system (i) who  holds  the  position  of
  bridge  and  tunnel  officer, sergeant or lieutenant with the Triborough
  bridge and tunnel authority, and has received or receives an appointment
  to at least one such position from a competitive civil service list;  or
  (ii)  who  holds the position of assistant bridge and tunnel maintainer,
  bridge and tunnel maintainer, senior bridge  and  tunnel  maintainer  or
  laborer  with  the  Triborough  bridge  and  tunnel authority, provided,
  however, that this article shall not apply to a New  York  city  revised
  plan  member  (as defined in subdivision m of section six hundred one of
  this chapter).
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 16 - Reduction in Retirement Age for Certain Members › 651 - Reduction of Retirement Age.

§  651.  Reduction of retirement age. a. A member described in section
six hundred fifty of this article may,  subject  to  the  provisions  of
subdivision  b  of  this section (and notwithstanding the provisions for
benefit reduction contained in subdivision a  of  section  four  hundred
forty-two  and  subdivision  c  of  section  five  hundred  four of this
chapter), retire without reduction of  his  or  her  service  retirement
benefit  prior  to  the  attainment  of  the  normal  retirement  age in
accordance with the following schedule:
(i) For each full  year  of  covered  employment  occurring  prior  to
January   first,   nineteen  hundred  seventy-one,  his  or  her  normal
retirement age shall be reduced by six months; and
(ii) For each full year  of  covered  employment  occurring  prior  to
January  first,  two  thousand  nine  which  is  subsequent  to December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy, his or her normal retirement age
shall be reduced by four months.
b. Provided however, that nothing herein:
(i) Shall permit a member of  Tier  one  to  retire,  other  than  for
disability,  prior  to  the attainment of age fifty, or a member of Tier
two, three or four to retire, other than for disability,  prior  to  the
attainment of age fifty-five; and
(ii)  Shall  be construed to affect any other condition or requirement
of any general, special or local law.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 16 - Reduction in Retirement Age for Certain Members › 652 - Definitions.

§  652.  Definitions.   a. The term "normal retirement age" shall mean
  age fifty-five for a member of Tier one, and age sixty-two for a  member
  of Tier two, three or four.
b.  The  term "covered employment" shall mean paid service as a bridge
  and tunnel officer, sergeant, lieutenant, assistant  bridge  and  tunnel
  maintainer,  bridge  and  tunnel  maintainer,  senior  bridge and tunnel
  maintainer or laborer with the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority by
  a member described in section six hundred fifty of this article.
c. The term "Tier one member" shall mean a member whose  benefits  are
  prescribed  by  chapter one of title thirteen of the administrative code
  of the city of New York and who is not  subject  to  the  provisions  of
  article eleven, fourteen or fifteen of this chapter.
d.  The  term "Tier two member" shall mean a member whose benefits are
  prescribed by chapter one of title thirteen of the  administrative  code
  of  the city of New York and who is subject to the provisions of article
  eleven of this chapter.
e. The term "Tier three member" shall mean a member who is subject  to
  the provisions of article fourteen of this chapter.
f.  The  term "Tier four member" shall mean a member who is subject to
  the provisions of article fifteen of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 17* - Election of Article Fourteen › 700 - Election of the Provisions of Article Fourteen by Certain Members.

§  700.  Election  of  the  provisions  of article fourteen by certain
  members.  a. This section shall apply to a member of the New York  state
  and  local  employees'  retirement  system  who is in a title defined in
  subdivision i of section eighty-nine of this chapter,  which  title  was
  added  to  such  section  on  or  after  January first, nineteen hundred
  eighty-seven and who joined or rejoined such system  on  or  after  July
  first, nineteen hundred seventy-six.
b.  A  member may, by filing an election as specified in subdivision c
  of this section, elect to be subject to article fourteen of this chapter
  in its entirety and subject to none of the provisions of article fifteen
  of this chapter.
c. Such election shall be in writing, shall be duly executed and filed
  with the comptroller and shall be irrevocable as long as such member  is
  in  a  title  defined  in  subdivision  i of section eighty-nine of this
  chapter. The election shall be filed on or before December thirty-first,
  nineteen hundred eighty-nine  or  within  one  year  after  such  person
  becomes employed in such title, whichever date is later.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 800 - Definitions.

§  800. Definitions.   The following words and phrases as used in this
  article shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning  is
  plainly required by the context.
a.  "Public retirement system" shall mean the New York state and local
  employees' retirement system, the New York state and  local  police  and
  fire  retirement system, New York state teachers' retirement system, New
  York  city  employees'  retirement  system,  New  York  city   teachers'
  retirement system, New York city police pension fund, New York city fire
  department  pension  fund  and  the  New  York  city  board of education
  retirement system.
b. "Employer" or "participating employer" shall mean the state of  New
  York  and  any  other  unit  of  government  or organization which makes
  contributions to a public retirement system on behalf of its  employees.
  Provided however, that the provisions of this article shall not apply to
  the  city  of  New York until such city enacts a local law adopting this
  article in its entirety. Until such date (subject to the  provisions  of
  section  eight  hundred  six  of  this  article),  no member of a public
  retirement system: (i) who is an employee of the city of New York  shall
  have any rights created by the provisions of this article or (ii) who is
  not an employee of the city of New York shall have any rights created by
  this  article  resulting  from  any  prior employment by the city of New
  York. For the purposes herein: (i) the "city of New York" shall include:
  (a) every employer other than a state employer which participates in the
  New York city employees' retirement  system,  New  York  city  teachers'
  retirement system, New York city police pension fund, New York city fire
  department  pension  fund  or  the  New  York  city  board  of education
  retirement system, and (b) a city of New  York  funded  college  of  the
  state  university  of New York located within such city, the city of New
  York libraries subject to section thirty-two of this  chapter,  and  the
  civilian  and  uniformed  employees  described in subdivision sixteen of
  section twelve hundred four of the public authorities law;  and  (ii)  a
  "state  employer"  shall  mean  the  unified  court  system,  the senior
  colleges of the city  university  of  New  York  and  a  public  benefit
  corporation,  public corporation or subsidiary corporation a majority of
  the members of which are appointed by the governor, designated by virtue
  of their state office or appointed or designated by any  combination  of
  the foregoing.
c.  "Head  of the retirement system" shall mean the state comptroller,
  with respect to the state and local employees' retirement system and the
  state and local police and fire retirement system,  and  the  retirement
  board of the other public retirement systems.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 801 - Transfer Rights.

§  801.  Transfer  rights.   a. Except as provided in subdivision b of
  this section, any member of a public retirement system who by reason  of
  simultaneous  membership  in  two  public retirement systems, would have
  been entitled to transfer  membership  in  a  public  retirement  system
  pursuant  to  any provision of law, but failed to make a timely election
  to do so shall be entitled to transfer membership if written  notice  is
  given  to  such  system  no  later  than January first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-eight, or within one year of the enactment of a local law by  the
  city of New York for a member who: (i) is an employee of the city of New
  York;  or (ii) is not an employee of the city of New York, but has prior
  employment with such city without which he or she  would  be  ineligible
  for the benefit provided by this section.
b.  For  a membership occurring prior to April first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-three pursuant to any  provision  of  law,  a  public  retirement
  system  shall  have  the  authority  to  grant  relief from a failure to
  transfer such membership if the  member  would  have  been  eligible  to
  transfer  such membership to the system granting relief if he or she had
  joined the system granting relief on  the  commencement  of  employment,
  provided  that the member had been continuously (as defined in paragraph
  two of subdivision b of section eight hundred  three  of  this  article)
  employed in such employment from the commencement of eligible employment
  until  the  member joined the system and the member files written notice
  with  the  system  no  later  than  January  first,   nineteen   hundred
  ninety-eight,  or within one year of the enactment of a local law by the
  city of New York for a member who: (i) is an employee of the city of New
  York; or (ii) is not an employee of the city of New York, but has  prior
  employment  with  such  city without which he or she would be ineligible
  for the benefit provided by this section.
c. As a condition for transfer pursuant to subdivisions  a  and  b  of
  this section, the employee must deposit within one year of the filing of
  the written notice of intention to transfer as provided in subdivision a
  or  b  of  this  section, with the public retirement system of which the
  employee is a member, an amount equal to the amount withdrawn  from  the
  public  retirement  system  of which the employee had been a member with
  interest thereon as prescribed by the retirement  system  of  which  the
  employee is a member. When such deposit has been made, a calculation and
  transfer of the reserve on such employee's benefit shall be made.
d.  Except as expressly provided herein, the applicable rules relating
  to the transfer of membership, including the transfer of reserves, shall
  apply to the transfer of membership permitted hereunder.
e. This section shall not be construed to continue membership  in  any
  retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 802 - Credit for Previously Credited Service.

§ 802. Credit for previously credited service.  a. Notwithstanding any
ineligibility  to  obtain  credit  by  reason  of  a failure to transfer
membership in a public retirement system pursuant to any applicable law,
retirement credit shall be granted for service which predates  the  date
of  membership in a public retirement system after a member has rendered
five years of credited service since last joining  a  public  retirement
system if:
(1) such service is otherwise creditable; and
(2)  credit  for  such  service  had  been  granted  by another public
retirement system; and
(3) such service  is  not  currently  credited  in  any  other  public
retirement system or any public retirement system in another state or of
the federal government.
b. Credit shall not be granted under this section unless such member:
(1)  files,  prior  to  the  effective  date  of retirement, a written
request with the public retirement system from which credit  is  sought;
and
(2)  deposits  with  such  system,  prior  to  the  effective  date of
retirement or as such system may allow, the amounts required in order to
obtain previous service credit under the member's current membership. If
the full amount of payment is not paid to such  system,  the  amount  of
service  credited  shall  be  proportional  to  the  total amount of the
payments made.
c. The public retirement system may permit such  member  to  pay  such
contributions  with  interest  in  monthly installments equal or less in
number to the number of months of previous service credit granted or  as
such  system  may  allow. Upon retirement, such member shall not receive
credit for any service for which contributions are not paid as  provided
herein.
d.  The  granting  of previous service credit pursuant to this section
shall not affect the individual's date of membership or tier status.
e. This section  shall  not  be  construed  to  diminish,  replace  or
conflict  with  any  other statutory right to obtain credit for previous
service.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 803-A - Correction of Benefit Errors.

§  803-a.  Correction  of  benefit  errors.  Notwithstanding any other
  provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, if, pursuant to  a
  settlement  agreement  or  court  order  arising out of a matrimonial or
  custody action, a member of the New  York  state  and  local  employees'
  retirement  system  or  the  New  York  state  and local police and fire
  retirement system or retiree agrees or is ordered to select or change  a
  retirement  option  or  beneficiary  and such member or retiree fails to
  comply  with  such  agreement  or  order,  the  comptroller  is   hereby
  authorized,  at  his  or  her  discretion,  to  change  or  correct such
  retirement option or beneficiary consistent with a subsequent order by a
  court of competent jurisdiction  directing  the  member  or  retiree  to
  comply with the original agreement or order.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 806 - Exclusion.

§  806.  Exclusion.    a.  A  person  who was not a member of a public
  retirement  system  as   of   March   thirty-first,   nineteen   hundred
  ninety-three  shall  be ineligible for the benefits provided by sections
  eight hundred one and eight hundred three of this article.
b. This article shall have no  application  to  a  retiree  or  former
  retiree from a public retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 807 - Alternate Means of Authentication.

§  807.  Alternate  means of authentication. Notwithstanding any other
  law, rule or regulation, each public retirement  system  as  defined  by
  subdivision  a of section eight hundred of this article is authorized to
  promulgate rules and regulations  to  provide  for  alternate  means  of
  authentication  in  place  of  any  requirement  that  a  filing be duly
  executed and acknowledged and, consistent with  the  provisions  of  the
  state technology law, to provide for the electronic filing of documents.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 808 - Preservation of Records.

§ 808. Preservation of records. a. Notwithstanding any other provision
  of  law,  each  public retirement system, as defined in subdivision a of
  section eight hundred of this article, other than  the  New  York  state
  teachers'  retirement system, is authorized to reproduce all or any part
  of its records by any computerized process which accurately  produces  a
  digital  image  of  a paper record. Whenever the retirement system shall
  have so reproduced such records and whenever such reproductions or media
  have been placed in conveniently accessible files and provision has been
  made for preserving, examining and using the same, the retirement system
  may cause the original  record  which  has  been  so  reproduced  to  be
  disposed of or destroyed.
b. A duly authorized representative of the retirement system is hereby
  authorized  to  certify  to  the authenticity of any reproduction herein
  authorized. The retirement system may charge for copies of reproductions
  of such records as provided for by applicable law, rules or regulations.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems › 809 - Effect and Rebuttal of Certain Medical Presumptions Pertaining to Diseases of the Heart.

§  809. Effect and rebuttal of certain medical presumptions pertaining
to diseases of the  heart.  a.  This  section  shall  apply  to  certain
applications  for  disability retirement allowances made by or on behalf
of a member of the New York state and local employees' retirement system
or the New York state and local police and fire  retirement  system.  It
shall  apply only to applications that are subject under this chapter to
a provision that any condition of  impairment  of  health  caused  by  a
disease  of  the  heart,  resulting  in disability, shall be presumptive
evidence that such  disability  was  incurred  in  the  performance  and
discharge of duty and the natural and proximate result of an accident.
b.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law to the contrary an
application for an accidental disability retirement  allowance  that  is
based  on a permanent incapacity caused by a disease of the heart, shall
not be required to allege or establish:
(1) that the member sustained an accident or other incident related to
the performance and discharge of duty; or
(2) that notice was provided thereof.
c. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  the
presumptions  referred  to  in  subdivision  a  of  this  section may be
rebutted only by competent evidence  that  the  disability  is  not  the
natural and proximate result of the performance and discharge of duty.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 19 - Benefit Enhancements › 900 - Definitions.

§  900.  Definitions.  The following words and phrases as used in this
  article shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning  is
  plainly required by the context:
a.  "Retirement  system"  shall  mean  the  New  York  state and local
  employees' retirement system and the New York state teachers' retirement
  system.
b. "State employer" shall mean the executive branch of the state,  the
  senate, the assembly and joint legislative employers.
c. "Participating employer" shall mean an employer, other than a state
  employer, which participates in a retirement system.
d.  "Eligible  employee",  subject  to the limitations of section nine
  hundred two of this article, shall mean a member of a retirement  system
  who  is  identified  as  eligible  to  receive  the benefit enhancements
  provided for in this article upon election by a state employer  pursuant
  to  section  nine  hundred one of this article; "eligible employee" of a
  participating  employer  shall  mean  all  employees,  subject  to   the
  limitations of section nine hundred two of this article. Notwithstanding
  any other provision of law to the contrary, the benefits provided herein
  shall only apply to an eligible employee who is a member of a retirement
  system as defined by subdivision a of this section.
e.  "Active  service"  shall  mean (i) service while being paid on the
  payroll; (ii) a leave of absence with pay; (iii)  other  approved  leave
  without  pay;  and  (iv) any period of time between school terms and any
  time between September  first,  two  thousand  and  October  first,  two
  thousand  for  a  teacher  or  other  employee employed on a school-year
  basis.
f. "Cessation date" shall mean  the  beginning  date  of  an  eligible
  employee's  first  payroll  period commencing on or after October first,
  two thousand, or the effective date as of which  such  employee  becomes
  eligible  for  the  benefits  contained in subdivision b of section nine
  hundred two of this article, or the date on which the eligible  employee
  attains  ten  years  of membership or, if earlier, ten years of credited
  service, whichever is latest.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 19 - Benefit Enhancements › 901 - Election of Benefit Enhancements.

§ 901. Election of benefit enhancements. a. A state employer may elect
  to  provide  its  employees  the  benefit  enhancements  provided for in
  section nine hundred two of this article.
1. With respect to members of a  retirement  system  employed  in  the
  executive   branch  (including  employees  of  an  institution  for  the
  instruction of the deaf and of the blind as enumerated in  section  four
  thousand  two  hundred one of the education law), such election shall be
  made by the governor.
2. With respect to members of a  retirement  system  employed  by  the
  senate,  such  election shall be made by adoption of a resolution by the
  senate.
3. With respect to members of a  retirement  system  employed  by  the
  assembly, such election shall be made by adoption of a resolution by the
  assembly.
4.  With  respect  to members of a retirement system employed by joint
  legislative employers, such election shall  be  made  by  adoption,  and
  consistent  with  rules  established  by, a concurrent resolution of the
  senate and assembly.
b. An election to provide benefit enhancements pursuant to subdivision
  a of this section may be made applicable to all  employees  of  a  state
  employer  or  to  all  employees  who  are  represented  by  a  specific
  collective bargaining organization, recognized or certified pursuant  to
  article  fourteen  of the civil service law, and/or to all employees who
  are not represented for the purposes of collective bargaining subject to
  the limitation provided in section nine hundred two of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 19-A - Benefit Enhancements for Certain Retirement Systems in the City of New York › 910 - Definitions.

§  910.  Definitions.  The following words and phrases as used in this
  article shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning  is
  plainly required by the context:
a.  "Retirement  system"  shall  mean  the  New  York  city  teachers'
  retirement system, the New  York  city  board  of  education  retirement
  system or the New York city employees' retirement system.
b.  "Eligible member" shall mean a member of a retirement system other
  than a member who (1) is an  employee  of  the  New  York  city  transit
  authority,  and  (2)  is either (i) subject to the provisions of section
  13-161 of the administrative code of the city of New York or (ii) a  New
  York  city  transit  authority  member  as  defined  in paragraph one of
  subdivision  a  of  section  six  hundred  four-b   of   this   chapter.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the benefits
  provided  herein  shall only apply to an eligible member who is a member
  of a retirement system as defined by subdivision a of this section.
c. "Active service" shall mean (1) service while  being  paid  on  the
  payroll;  (2)  a  leave  of  absence  with pay; (3) other approved leave
  without pay; (4) any period of time between school terms for  a  teacher
  or  other  employee  employed on a school-year basis; and (5) periods of
  time between regularly scheduled periods of paid  service  in  the  city
  university of New York.
d.  "Cessation  date"  shall  mean the later of (1) October first, two
  thousand or (2) the date on which the eligible member attains ten  years
  of membership or, if earlier, ten years of credited service.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 21 - Lump Sum Option at Retirement › 1100 - Lump Sum Option at Retirement.

§ 1100. Lump sum option at retirement. Certain eligible members of the
  New  York  state  and  local  police  and  fire  retirement  system, and
  sheriffs, undersheriffs, deputy sheriffs and  correction  officers,  who
  are  employed  in  a  county  which  makes  an election pursuant to this
  section, may elect an optional form of retirement pursuant to the  terms
  of  this article that provides for a partial lump sum at retirement with
  a reduced service retirement allowance as hereinafter provided:
1. To be eligible, a member must  retire  with  a  service  retirement
  benefit  under  a  plan  that allows retirement at twenty or twenty-five
  years of service, regardless of age. In addition, the member  must  have
  been  eligible  to retire with a service retirement benefit for at least
  one year prior to the actual date of retirement.
2. An eligible member may elect to receive a lump sum  and  a  smaller
  annual retirement allowance. Such lump sum shall not be eligible for any
  cost-of-living  adjustments  paid  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
  seventy-eight-a of this chapter.
a. Any member who files for retirement after being eligible to  retire
  for one year may elect to receive a five percent lump sum payment of the
  actuarial  equivalent  of his or her retirement allowance at the time of
  retirement.
b. Any member who files for retirement after being eligible to  retire
  for two years may elect to receive a ten percent lump sum payment of the
  actuarial  equivalent  of his or her retirement allowance at the time of
  retirement.
c. Any member who files for retirement after being eligible to  retire
  for  three years may elect to receive a fifteen percent lump sum payment
  of the actuarial equivalent of his or her retirement  allowance  at  the
  time of retirement.
d.  Any member who files for retirement after being eligible to retire
  for four years may elect to receive a twenty percent lump sum payment of
  the actuarial equivalent of his or her retirement allowance at the  time
  of retirement.
e.  Any member who files for retirement after being eligible to retire
  for five years may elect to  receive  a  twenty-five  percent  lump  sum
  payment  of  the actuarial equivalent of his or her retirement allowance
  at the time of retirement.
3. The smaller annual retirement allowance remaining after receipt  of
  the  lump  sum shall be determined by the actuary using mortality tables
  and interest rates determined for this purpose and in effect on the date
  of retirement.
4.  Any  lump  sum  paid  pursuant  to  this  article  is  subject  to
  withholding  as  required  by the internal revenue service and such lump
  sum may be rolled over as otherwise permitted by  the  internal  revenue
  code.
5. The comptroller shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement
  the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 22 - Police and Fire Retirement Provisions › 1200 - Definitions.

§ 1200. Definitions. For purposes of this article the terms:
a. "Member" shall mean a person who is employed as a police officer or
  firefighter  by any employer who first joins the retirement system on or
  after January first, two thousand ten.
b. "Retirement system" shall mean the New York state and local  police
  and fire retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 22 - Police and Fire Retirement Provisions › 1201 - Applicability.

§  1201.  Applicability.  Notwithstanding  any provision of law to the
  contrary, the provisions of this article  shall  be  applicable  to  all
  employees  in  the  retirement system who first joined such system on or
  after January first, two thousand ten.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 22 - Police and Fire Retirement Provisions › 1201-A - Retirement Plan.

§  1201-a.  Retirement  plan.  Notwithstanding  any  other  law to the
  contrary, members who first become members of the  New  York  state  and
  local  police  and fire retirement system on or after January first, two
  thousand fifteen and are employed by an employer  who  has  elected  the
  benefits  of  section  three hundred eighty-four-d of this chapter shall
  automatically be enrolled in such section  three  hundred  eighty-four-d
  retirement  plan.  Any  member  so enrolled in the section three hundred
  eighty-four-d retirement plan may thereafter withdraw from such plan.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 22 - Police and Fire Retirement Provisions › 1202 - Vesting.

§  1202.  Vesting.  a.  In  order  to qualify for a service retirement
  benefit, members subject to the provisions of this article must  have  a
  minimum of five years of creditable service.
b.  In  computing  the  years of total creditable service of a member,
  full  credit  shall  be  given  for  military  service  as  defined   in
  subdivisions  twenty-nine-a  and  thirty of section three hundred two of
  this chapter.
c. In no event shall the vested retirement allowance  payable  without
  optional modification be less than the actuarial equivalent of the total
  which  results from the member's contributions accumulated with interest
  at five percent per annum compounded annually to the date of retirement.