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2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 484 - Meeting for Incorporation.

§  484. Meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for incorporation
  held in pursuance  of  such  notice,  only  qualified  voters  shall  be
  eligible to vote.
2.  The presence of one-third of the qualified voters or six qualified
  voters, whichever number is higher, shall be necessary to  constitute  a
  quorum  of  such  meeting.  The action of the meeting upon any matter or
  question shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters present.
3. The minister of the church, or if none, the  officiating  minister,
  shall  act  as  presiding  officer  of  the  meeting to incorporate. The
  presiding officer shall call the meeting to order and shall be the judge
  of the qualification of voters.
4. Such meeting shall decide by ballot whether  the  church  shall  be
  incorporated,  the  name  of  the proposed corporation, the names of the
  initial trustees, and the date, not more than fifteen months thereafter,
  on which the first  annual  election  or  affirmation  of  the  trustees
  thereof after such meeting shall be held. The trustees shall hold office
  until their successors are elected or affirmed.
5.  At the meeting for incorporation, a constitution and by-laws shall
  be adopted setting forth a form of church governance that is  consistent
  with section four hundred eighty-five of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 485 - Church Governance.

§  485. Church governance. 1. A church incorporated under this section
  shall provide  in  its  certificate  of  incorporation  or  by-laws  for
  trustees  to  be  elected  or  appointed at large, or by virtue of their
  office. There shall be a  minimum  of  three  trustees.  To  the  extent
  practicable,  terms  of  office  shall be for three years and staggered.
  Terms may be consecutive.
2. Provision shall also be made in its certificate of incorporation or
  by-laws for officers of the corporation to be elected  or  appointed  at
  large  or  by  virtue of their office. The president and secretary shall
  not be the same person. To the extent practicable, terms of office shall
  be for three years and staggered. Terms may be consecutive.
3. Provision shall also be made in its certificate of incorporation or
  by-laws for spiritual oversight of the church by an eldership board or a
  senior imam, moulvi, maulana or some combination of the above. Terms  of
  office may be definite or indefinite as the by-laws may specify.
4. Provision shall also be made in its certificate of incorporation or
  by-laws for periodic affirmation of appointive positions by a designated
  body or board.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 486 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  486.  Certificate  of  incorporation.  1.  If  at  the  meeting for
  incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church  shall
  become incorporated, the presiding officer of the meeting and two others
  shall  execute  and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, in which
  shall be stated the name or title by which such body shall be  known  in
  the law; the purpose of its organization; the names and addresses of the
  initial  trustees, the county, town or city in which its principal place
  of worship is or is intended to be located; and  a  statement  that  the
  church is in affiliation with the Islamic faith.
2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county  in  which  the  principal  office  or  place  of  worship of the
  corporation is or is intended to be located,  such  church  shall  be  a
  corporation by the name stated in the certificate of incorporation.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 487 - Reincorporation of Present Incorporated Churches.

§ 487. Reincorporation of present incorporated churches. 1. Any church
  heretofore  incorporated may, subject to restrictions and limitations of
  existing laws, reincorporate under the provisions of  this  article,  by
  filing in the county clerk's office in the county in which its principal
  place  of  worship is located, a certificate, signed and acknowledged by
  all the  trustees  of  said  church  in  office  at  the  time  of  such
  reincorporation,  setting  forth that the said church by a majority vote
  of the members present at a duly called meeting of  the  membership,  as
  determined  by  the  by-laws  of  the  existing  corporation, desires to
  reincorporate under the provisions of  this  article.  Such  certificate
  shall set forth those items specified in section four hundred eighty-six
  of this article.
2.  The  reincorporated  corporation shall be deemed a continuation of
  the previously organized corporation, but thereafter it shall have  only
  such  rights  and  powers and be subject only to such obligations as any
  corporation created under this  article,  provided,  however,  that  all
  property  rights and liabilities of the previously organized corporation
  shall be vested in and assumed by the  reincorporated  corporation.  The
  corporate  by-laws  and officers of the reincorporated corporation shall
  be the same as those of its predecessor until changed  pursuant  to  the
  said  by-laws,  provided  they conform to the provisions of section four
  hundred eighty-five of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 488 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  488.  Time,  place and notice of corporate meetings. 1. The by-laws
  shall make provision for an annual  corporate  meeting  and  for  giving
  appropriate  notice  to each voting member of the date and place of each
  such meeting.
2. Notices of any special meeting shall state the purpose or  purposes
  for  which  the meeting is called and no business shall be transacted at
  such special meeting except that contained in such notice.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith › 489 - Corporate Meetings.

§  489.  Corporate  meetings.  1.  Each  church  shall  determine  the
  requirements for a quorum in their by-laws that shall not  exceed  fifty
  percent of the members.
2.  The  action  of  the  meeting upon any matter or question shall be
  decided in a manner provided by the by-laws.
3. The presiding officer of any meeting  shall  be  the  senior  imam,
  moulvi or maulana of the church or if none, as shall be set forth in the
  by-laws of the church.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 10 - The Retirement System Continued; a Corporation.

§  10. The retirement system continued; a corporation.  The retirement
  system, as established by chapter seven hundred forty-one of the laws of
  nineteen hundred twenty, as amended, is hereby  continued.  Such  system
  shall  continue  to  have the powers and privileges of a corporation and
  shall be known as the "New York State and  local  Employees'  Retirement
  System."  All  of  the  business  of  the  retirement  system  shall  be
  transacted, all of its funds invested and payments made, and all of  its
  cash, securities and other properties shall be held in such name, except
  as provided in article nine of this chapter.
Reference  in  this  chapter or in any other law to the New York state
  employees' retirement system shall be deemed to mean and  refer  to  the
  New York state and local employees' retirement system.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 12 - Classification of Members.

§  12. Classification of members.  a. It shall be the duty of the head
  of each department of the state government,  and  of  the  chief  fiscal
  officer   of   each  participating  employer,  at  the  request  of  the
  comptroller, to submit to him  a  statement  showing  the  name,  title,
  compensation,  duties, date of birth and length of government service of
  each member and such other information as the comptroller  may  require.
  If  any  such  member  be principally engaged upon duties differing from
  those specified by the appropriate  civil  service  commission  for  the
  title  held  by  him,  such head of department, or chief fiscal officer,
  shall certify the reasons therefor and  the  probable  duration  of  the
  duties being so performed by such member.
b.  Each member shall be subject to all the provisions of this article
  and to all the rules and regulations adopted by the comptroller pursuant
  to this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 15 - State Supervision.

§  15.  State  supervision.  The  retirement  system continued by this
  article shall be subject to the supervision  of  the  superintendent  of
  financial  services.  Such  supervision  shall be in accordance with the
  provisions of the insurance law to the extent that such  provisions  are
  applicable  to  the  retirement system and are not inconsistent with the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 16-A - Amortization of Amounts Outstanding.

§ 16-a. Amortization of amounts outstanding. a. On or before September
  first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, on the basis of the annual actuarial
  valuation  and  appraisal  procedure  provided  for in this article, the
  comptroller shall determine the annual amounts that,  had  this  section
  not  been  enacted, would have been required to be paid into the pension
  accumulation fund and the New York state  public  employees  group  life
  insurance  plan,  as appropriate, from the general fund of the state for
  all obligations of the state to the  retirement  system  not  discharged
  prior  to  such  date, for state fiscal years ending March thirty-first,
  nineteen hundred eighty-five and March  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty-six  and  amounts for the state's contribution for the retirement
  incentive program that would, had this section not been enacted, be  due
  to be paid into the pension accumulation fund during fiscal years ending
  March    thirty-first,   nineteen   hundred   eighty-seven   and   March
  thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight. Such amounts shall  include
  interest, as defined in section sixteen of this article through the last
  day  of February, nineteen hundred eighty-seven. The sum of such amounts
  shall be called the "amount to be amortized".
b. The  amount  to  be  amortized  shall  be  paid  into  the  pension
  accumulation  fund  and  the  New York state public employees group life
  insurance plan, as appropriate, according to a schedule of equal  annual
  installments  during any years remaining in the amortization period. The
  "amortization period" shall be seventeen years. The first payment  shall
  be made March first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven.
c.  The  amount  of  the  annual  payment to be made in any subsequent
  fiscal year shall be the amount that would be required to pay  in  full,
  in  equal  annual  installments  over  the remainder of the amortization
  period, any unpaid balance of the amount to be amortized and interest on
  such unpaid balance computed at eight percent per annum.
d. On or before October fifteenth of nineteen hundred  eighty-six  and
  each  succeeding  year  during  the amortization period, the comptroller
  shall file with the director of the budget an estimate of the amount  of
  the  annual  payment required to be made pursuant to this section in the
  state fiscal year beginning the first day of April next succeeding  such
  October fifteenth.
e.  An  item  of  appropriation sufficient to provide for such payment
  shall be included in the next annual budget  bill  for  the  support  of
  government  presented  to  the  legislature  for passage. The amounts so
  appropriated shall be paid from the  general  fund  of  the  state  upon
  warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  March first of each state fiscal year
  during the amortization period.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 16-B - Notice of Change.

§  16-b.  Notice  of  change.
(1) The comptroller, on or before the
fifteenth day of October of each year, shall submit to the  director  of
the  division  of  the  budget  and  the  chairmen of the senate finance
committee and the assembly ways and means committee  written  notice  of
any  proposed material change in the annual actuarial valuation provided
for in this article or any  other  material  change,  other  than  those
provided  by  legislation  or  resolution,  affecting the state's or any
other participating employer's estimated or actual  obligations  to  the
pension  accumulation fund and the New York state public employees group
life insurance plan for the succeeding fiscal year.
(2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  for  fiscal
years  commencing  April  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight, April
first, nineteen hundred eighty-nine and April  first,  nineteen  hundred
ninety  the actuarial value of assets shall be calculated using the five
year smoothing method that was used for the fiscal year commencing April
first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven which method has been determined to
be actuarially sound.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 18 - Guaranty.

§  18.  Guaranty.    a.  The latest employers of the different members
  shall be obligated for:
1. Regular interest charges payable, and special interest, if any, and
2.  The  creation  and  maintenance  of  reserves   in   the   pension
  accumulation fund, and
3. The maintenance of annuity reserves and pension reserves, and
4.  The  payment  of  all  pensions, annuities, retirement allowances,
  refunds and any other benefits, and
5. The expenses of the retirement system,
  as provided for or granted under the provisions of this article. In  the
  case  of  employer  contributions  required to be made for prior service
  allowed  pursuant  to  paragraph  three  of  subdivision  b  of  section
  forty-one  of this article, the provisions of such paragraph three shall
  govern.
b. Except as otherwise provided pursuant to this article, all  income,
  interest  and dividends derived from deposits and investments authorized
  by this article shall be used for the payment of such obligations.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 2 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing › 19 - Filing of Documents With the Retirement System.

§  19.  Filing  of  documents  with  the retirement system. Whenever a
  statute requires that a document be filed with the state comptroller, as
  administrative head of the New York state employees' retirement  system,
  within  a  prescribed  period  of  time or by a specified date, and such
  document has been mailed to the comptroller or the retirement system  by
  United  States  Postal Service certified mail, return receipt requested,
  the  document  shall  be  deemed  filed  on   the   date   of   mailing.
  Notwithstanding this provision, no document shall be deemed filed on the
  date  of mailing unless it is actually received by the retirement system
  as a result of such mailing.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 3 - Funds of the System; Members' Contributions and Employers' Contributions › 20 - The Funds of the Retirement System.

§  20. The funds of the retirement system.  The funds hereby continued
  are the annuity savings fund, the  annuity  reserve  fund,  the  pension
  accumulation fund and the pension reserve fund.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 3 - Funds of the System; Members' Contributions and Employers' Contributions › 22 - Members' Contributions and Their Use; Annuity Reserve Fund.

§  22. Members' contributions and their use; annuity reserve fund.  a.
  The annuity reserve fund shall be the fund from which shall be paid  all
  annuities  and  all  benefits  in lieu of annuities, payable pursuant to
  this article.
b. Upon retirement, a  member's  accumulated  contributions  shall  be
  transferred  from  the annuity savings fund to the annuity reserve fund.
  They shall then be used to provide an annuity, the amount of which shall
  be the actuarial equivalent of such  accumulated  contributions  on  the
  basis  of  regular  interest  and  the tables adopted by the comptroller
  pursuant to this article.
c. The comptroller from time to time shall transfer from  the  pension
  accumulation  fund  to  the  annuity  reserve  fund, such amounts as are
  necessary under this article.
d. If a member, retired for  any  reason,  returns  to  active  public
  service and again becomes a member of the retirement system, his annuity
  reserve  shall  be  transferred  from  the  annuity  reserve fund to the
  annuity savings fund.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 3 - Funds of the System; Members' Contributions and Employers' Contributions › 24 - Employers' Contributions and Their Use; Pension Reserve Fund.

§  24.  Employers'  contributions and their use; pension reserve fund.
  a. The pension reserve fund shall be the fund from which shall  be  paid
  all  pensions  and  all  other benefits, except ordinary death benefits,
  payable wholly out of contributions made  to  the  pension  accumulation
  fund pursuant to this article.
b.  When  a pension or a pension-providing-for-increased-take-home-pay
  becomes payable to or on account  of  any  member,  the  amount  of  the
  reserve  computed  by the actuary to be necessary to provide the pension
  and the pension-providing-for-increased-take-home-pay, if  any,  payable
  out  of  the  pension  reserve  fund shall be transferred to the pension
  reserve fund from the pension accumlation fund.
c. The comptroller shall transfer from the pension  accumulation  fund
  to  the  pension  reserve  fund,  from time to time, such amounts as are
  necessary under this article.
d. The amount of regular interest to be credited to the monies held in
  the pension reserve fund shall be determined after  the  close  of  each
  fiscal year. Such amount thereupon shall be transferred from the pension
  accumulation fund to the pension reserve fund.
e.  If  a  member,  retired  for  any reason, returns to active public
  service and again becomes a member of the retirement system, his pension
  reserve shall be transferred  from  the  pension  reserve  fund  to  the
  pension accumulation fund.
f.  If  the  pension  of  a beneficiary is reduced for any reason, the
  amount of such reduction shall be transferred from the  pension  reserve
  fund  to  the  pension  accumulation  fund  during that period that such
  reduction is in effect.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 3 - Funds of the System; Members' Contributions and Employers' Contributions › 25 - Appropriations in Retirement Bills.

§  25.  Appropriations  in  retirement  bills.  The state shall make a
  payment to the retirement system in an amount equal to the value of  the
  benefits  associated  with  prior  service  upon the enactment of a bill
  which enacts or amends any provision of law  relating  to  a  retirement
  system  or  plan  of  the  state  of New York or of any of its political
  subdivisions. The state may amortize  such  payment  over  a  five  year
  period  at a rate of interest to be determined by the retirement system.
  Such bill shall contain  an  itemized  appropriation  from  the  state's
  general  fund  beginning  for  the  fiscal  year in which such amendment
  becomes effective and which shall not be used  for  any  other  purpose,
  sufficient  to disburse a minimum of the first of five such amortization
  payments plus the present value of the benefits provided to employees of
  the state or its political subdivisions by  the  bill  for  the  current
  fiscal  year.  The  state  shall  continue  to  pay  for the cost of the
  benefits as provided  by  the  bill  to  the  state  and  its  political
  subdivisions  on  an  ongoing basis. Such appropriation from the state's
  general fund shall only  be  required  when  a  bill  is  enacted  on  a
  statewide  basis.  In  addition,  such  appropriation  from  the state's
  general fund shall not be required  when  the  benefits  provided  by  a
  particular  bill  must  be  elected  by  a participating employer, local
  government, or school district.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations › 31-A - Participation by School District Public Libraries.

§  31-a.  Participation  by  school  district public libraries.   a. A
  school district public library, by resolution  legally  adopted  by  its
  board  of  trustees, may elect to become a participating employer in the
  retirement system, separate  and  distinct  from  the  school  district.
  Acceptance  of  the  school  district  public library as a participating
  employer  in  the  retirement  system  shall  be  mandatory   with   the
  comptroller.
b.  The  officers and employees of such library shall be credited with
  such periods of prior service as shall be certified by the  library  for
  service  rendered  to  it,  or  its predecessor, or the state, or in any
  other capacity approved by such library and the comptroller. Service for
  such library after the date on which it commences to participate in  the
  retirement  system  shall be considered as member service. An officer or
  employee of such library who, as of the  date  he  is  so  approved  for
  membership  in the retirement system, is already a member thereof, shall
  not have his total credit reduced by such approval. Any reserve held  on
  account of any such officer or employee in the pension accumulation fund
  shall  be  used as an offset against the deficiency contribution payable
  thereafter by such library on account of such officer  or  employee  for
  any prior service credit and any such previous credit.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations › 31-B - Participation by the Upper Hudson Library System.

§  31-b.  Participation  by  the Upper Hudson Library System.   a. The
  Upper Hudson Library System may, by resolution adopted by its  board  of
  trustees  and  approved  by the comptroller, elect to participate in the
  retirement system. Acceptance of its employees  for  membership  in  the
  retirement  system  shall  be  optional  with the comptroller, who shall
  determine the amounts of contribution payable by  such  system  and  its
  employees,  shall  resolve  questions  of  credit for prior service, and
  shall in all other respects assure that such employees  share  the  same
  rights,  obligations  and  benefits  as  other members of the retirement
  system.
b. The officers and employees of such system shall  be  credited  with
  such  periods  of prior service as shall be certified by such system for
  service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity  approved
  by  such  system  and the comptroller. Service for such system after the
  date on which it commences to participate in the retirement system shall
  be considered as member service. An officer or employee of  such  system
  who,  as  of  the  date  he  or she is so approved for membership in the
  retirement system, is already a member thereof, shall not  have  his  or
  her  total  credit reduced by such approval. Any reserve held on account
  of any such officer or employee in the pension accumulation  fund  shall
  be  used  as  an  offset  against  the  deficiency  contribution payable
  thereafter by such system on account of such officer or employee for any
  prior service credit and any such previous credit.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations › 31-C - Participation by the Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.

§  31-c.  Participation  by  the  Metropolitan  Reference and Research
  Library Agency.   a. The Metropolitan  Reference  and  Research  Library
  Agency  may, by resolution adopted by its board of trustees and approved
  by the comptroller, elect  to  participate  in  the  retirement  system.
  Acceptance  of  its  employees  for  membership in the retirement system
  shall be optional with the comptroller, who shall determine the  amounts
  of  contribution payable by such agency and its employees, shall resolve
  questions of credit for prior service, and shall in all  other  respects
  assure  that  such  employees  share  the  same  rights, obligations and
  benefits as other members of the retirement system.
b. The officers and employees of such agency shall  be  credited  with
  such  periods  of prior service as shall be certified by such agency for
  service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity  approved
  by  such  agency  and the comptroller. Service for such agency after the
  date on which it commences to participate in the retirement system shall
  be considered as member service. An officer or employee of  such  agency
  who,  as  of  the  date  he  or she is so approved for membership in the
  retirement system, is already a member thereof, shall not  have  his  or
  her  total  credit reduced by such approval. Any reserve held on account
  of any such officer or employee in the pension accumulation  fund  shall
  be  used  as  an  offset  against  the  deficiency  contribution payable
  thereafter by such agency on account of such officer or employee for any
  prior service credit and any such previous credit.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations › 31-D - Participation by the Pioneer Library System.

§  31-d.  Participation by the Pioneer Library System.  a. The Pioneer
  Library System may, by resolution adopted by its board of  trustees  and
  approved  by  the  comptroller,  elect  to participate in the retirement
  system. Acceptance of its employees for  membership  in  the  retirement
  system  shall  be optional with the comptroller, who shall determine the
  amounts of contribution payable by such system and its employees,  shall
  resolve  questions  of  credit for prior service, and shall in all other
  respects assure that such employees share the same  rights,  obligations
  and benefits as other members of the retirement system.
b.  The  officers  and employees of such system shall be credited with
  such periods of prior service as shall be certified by such  system  for
  service  rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity approved
  by such system and the comptroller.  Service for such system  after  the
  date on which it commences to participate in the retirement system shall
  be  considered  as member service. An officer or employee of such system
  who, as of the date he or she is  so  approved  for  membership  in  the
  retirement  system,  is  already a member thereof, shall not have his or
  her total credit reduced by such approval. Any reserve held  on  account
  of  any  such officer or employee in the pension accumulation fund shall
  be used  as  an  offset  against  the  deficiency  contribution  payable
  thereafter by such system on account of such officer or employee for any
  prior service credit and any such previous credit.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 4 - Participation in System by Political Subdivisions and Other Organizations › 31-E - Participation by the Keuka Lake Watershed Improvement Cooperative.

§   31-e.  Participation  by  the  Keuka  Lake  watershed  improvement
  cooperative. a. The Keuka Lake  watershed  improvement  cooperative,  by
  resolution  legally  adopted  by  its  board  of directors, may elect to
  become a participating employer in the retirement system.  Acceptance of
  the Keuka Lake watershed  improvement  cooperative  as  a  participating
  employer   in   the   retirement  system  shall  be  optional  with  the
  comptroller.
b. The officers and employees of such cooperative  shall  be  credited
  with  such  periods  of  prior  service  as  shall  be  certified by the
  cooperative for service rendered to  it,  or  its  predecessor,  or  the
  state,  or  in  any  other capacity approved by such cooperative and the
  comptroller. Service for such cooperative after the  date  on  which  it
  commences to participate in the retirement system shall be considered as
  member  service.  An  officer or employee of such cooperative who, as of
  the date he is so approved for membership in the retirement  system,  is
  already  a  member  thereof,  shall not have his total credit reduced by
  such approval. Any reserve held  on  account  of  any  such  officer  or
  employee  in  the  pension  accumulation fund shall be used as an offset
  against  the  deficiency  contribution  payable   thereafter   by   such
  cooperative on account of such officer or employee for any prior service
  credit and any such previous credit.
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* §  31-f.  Participation  by  the Henry Viscardi school. a. The Henry
  Viscardi school may, by resolution adopted by its board of trustees  and
  approved  by  the  comptroller,  elect  to participate in the retirement
  system. Acceptance of its employees for  membership  in  the  retirement
  system  shall  be optional with the comptroller, who shall determine the
  amounts of contribution payable by  such  employer  and  its  employees,
  shall  resolve  questions  of credit for prior service, and shall in all
  other respects  assure  that  such  employees  share  the  same  rights,
  obligations and benefits as other members of the retirement system.
b.  The officers and employees of such employer shall be credited with
  such periods of prior service as shall be certified by such employer for
  service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity  approved
  by  such  employer  and the comptroller. Service for such employer after
  the date on which it commences to participate in the  retirement  system
  shall  be  considered  as member service. An officer or employee of such
  employer who, as of the date he or she is so approved for membership  in
  the  retirement  system, is already a member thereof, shall not have his
  or her total credit reduced  by  such  approval.  Any  reserve  held  on
  account of any such officer or employee in the pension accumulation fund
  shall  be  used as an offset against the deficiency contribution payable
  thereafter by such employer on account of such officer or  employee  for
  any prior service credit and any such previous credit.
c.  Notwithstanding  the  election  by  the  Henry  Viscardi School to
  participate in the retirement system, employees of  such  employer,  who
  are  employed  by  the  employer  prior  to  the  effective date of this
  section, shall have the option to continue participation in the employer
  sponsored retirement plan. Provided, however, an employee, who exercises
  the  option  to  continue  participation  in  the   employer   sponsored
  retirement  plan, shall not be entitled to be a member of the retirement
  system. Such election shall be irrevocable.
* NB There are 2 § 31-f's
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* § 31-f. Participation by the Northern Westchester joint water works.
  a. The Northern Westchester joint water works may, by resolution adopted
  by  its  board  of  trustees  and  approved by the comptroller, elect to
  participate in the retirement system. Acceptance of  its  employees  for
  membership   in  the  retirement  system  shall  be  optional  with  the
  comptroller, who shall determine the amounts of contribution payable  by
  such  system  and  its  employees, shall resolve questions of credit for
  prior service,  and  shall  in  all  other  respects  assure  that  such
  employees  share  the  same  rights,  obligations  and benefits as other
  members of the retirement system.
b. The officers and employees of such water works  shall  be  credited
  with  such  periods of prior service as shall be certified by such water
  works for service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity
  approved by such water works and the comptroller. Service for such water
  works after the date  on  which  it  commences  to  participate  in  the
  retirement  system  shall be considered as member service. An officer or
  employee of such water works who, as  of  the  date  he  or  she  is  so
  approved  for  membership  in the retirement system, is already a member
  thereof, shall not  have  his  or  her  total  credit  reduced  by  such
  approval. Any reserve held on account of any such officer or employee in
  the  pension  accumulation  fund  shall be used as an offset against the
  deficiency contribution  payable  thereafter  by  such  water  works  on
  account of such officer or employee for any prior service credit and any
  such previous credit.
* NB There are 2 § 31-f's
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§   33.   Election   of   certain   optional  retirement  benefits  by
  participating employers. By the adoption,  filing  and  approval,  where
  required,  of  a  resolution  in  the manner provided by section thirty,
  section  thirty-one  or  section   thirty-two   of   this   article,   a
  participating  employer  may  elect to provide for its own employees the
  benefit provided for persons in  the  employ  of  the  state  listed  in
  subdivision j of section forty-one and may elect to provide the benefits
  provided for employees of participating employers in section sixty-b and
  section  seventy-five-i  of  this  article.  Such  election may be for a
  limited period if such limitation is included in  the  resolution,  upon
  the expiration of which such election will be deemed revoked.
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§  34.  Reporting  of service and salary information.  The comptroller
  shall adopt rules and regulations, which shall have the force and effect
  of law, for the reporting of service  and  salary  information  for  all
  employees  of  participating employers. The chief fiscal officer of each
  participating employer, or if there be  no  chief  fiscal  officer,  the
  officer  exercising  similar  duties,  shall  file  the  report with the
  comptroller, in such form and at such times as may be prescribed in  the
  rules  and  regulations.  The  refusal  or willful neglect of such chief
  fiscal officer or other official to file the report as herein prescribed
  shall be a violation and  shall  subject  the  officer  so  refusing  or
  neglecting  to  a  penalty  of five dollars per day for each day's delay
  beyond seven days, to be paid on demand of the comptroller.
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§  45.  Right to membership.   Upon the employment of any employee whose
  right to membership in a public retirement system of  the  state,  which
  for  purposes of this section shall include any public retirement system
  other than the New York state teachers' retirement system, has been made
  optional by the head of the retirement  system  involved,  the  employer
  shall  inform  the  employee in writing of the right to join the system.
  Each such employee shall acknowledge  the  receipt  of  such  notice  by
  signing  a  copy  thereof  and  filing  it with such employer; provided,
  however, the failure to inform such employee shall not  in  any  way  be
  construed  to waive the requirement that membership for such an employee
  commences only when an application for  membership  is  filed  with  the
  system,  nor  shall  it  be  construed  to  waive any of the eligibility
  requirements for previous service credit.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement › 60-C - Death Benefit for Vested Members Who Die Prior to Retirement.

§  60-c. Death benefit for vested members who die prior to retirement.
  a. A death benefit plus the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay shall be
  payable upon the death of a member who:
1. Died before the effective date of retirement while a member of  the
  retirement system;
2.  Had  at  least ten years of credited service at the time of death;
  and
3. Died at a time and  in  a  manner  which  did  not  result  in  the
  eligibility  of  the  member's  estate or any beneficiary to receive any
  other retirement system death benefits on account of such death.
b. Benefits provided under  this  section  shall  be  payable  to  the
  member's  estate  or  the  beneficiary or beneficiaries nominated by the
  member on a designation of beneficiary form filed with  the  comptroller
  pursuant to section sixty of this title, who would have been eligible to
  receive  benefits  if  benefits  had  become  payable  pursuant  to such
  section.
c. The amount of the benefit payable pursuant to this section shall be
  equal to one-half of the amount of  the  ordinary  death  benefit  which
  would  have been payable pursuant to section sixty of this title had the
  member's death occurred on the last day of service upon which membership
  was based.
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§ 61-a. Payment   of   interest  on  death  benefits  and  accumulated
  contributions. Interest  shall  accrue  against  unpaid  accidental  and
  ordinary  death  benefits  plus  the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay
  from the date of death of  a  member  until  payment  thereof  is  made.
  Interest  shall accrue against accumulated member contributions from the
  date of death until payment thereof is made, where no death  benefit  is
  payable on account of such death. An application for the payment of such
  benefits  must be made in writing on a blank provided by the comptroller
  for such purpose. Interest against the unpaid benefit shall  be  at  the
  rate  provided  for by subdivision one of section three-a of the general
  municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › RSS - Retirement and Social Security › Article 2 - New York State Employees' Retirement System › Title 7 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement › 63-A - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement.

§  63-a.  Performance  of duty disability retirement. a. Any member in
  the uniformed personnel in institutions under the  jurisdiction  of  the
  department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision  or  a security
  hospital treatment assistant, as those terms are defined in  subdivision
  i  of  section  eighty-nine  of  this article, 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  incarcerated  individual  or  any  person  confined  in  an
  institution  under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and
  community supervision or 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  title,  subject to the
  provisions of section sixty-four of this title.
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 subdivision a that may
  have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from  an
  incarcerated individual or such person described in 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  correction  officer  or
  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.
* NB Expired and repealed July 1, 2001. § 480 of Retirement and Social
  Security Law extends disability benefits implemented by former § 63-c.
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§  63-b.  Performance  of  duty  disability retirement; certain county
  employees. a. A member employed by a county  shall  be  eligible  for  a
  performance  of  duty disability retirement if the county elects to make
  the benefits provided herein available, as provided for in subdivision d
  of  this  section,  and  such  member  is  a  sheriff,  deputy  sheriff,
  undersheriff or correction officer.
b. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, undersheriff, or correction officer as
  defined  in  subdivision  a  of  this section, 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  incarcerated  individual  or  any  person  confined  in  an
  institution  under  the  jurisdiction  of  such  county, shall be paid a
  performance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to that  which
  is  provided  in  section  sixty-three  of  this  title,  subject to the
  provisions of section sixty-four of this title.
c. 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 defined in subdivision b of
  this section as a  natural  and  proximate  result  of  an  act  of  any
  incarcerated  individual  or person described in such subdivision b that
  may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from
  an incarcerated individual or person described in such subdivision b  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.
d. 1. Each county that elects  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  subdivision shall pay the cost attributable therefor.
2.  The  performance  of  duty  disability  retirement  as  defined in
  subdivisions b and  c  of  this  section  shall  be  available  only  to
  sheriffs,  deputy  sheriffs, undersheriffs and correction officers whose
  employer elects to provide such benefits by  adopting  a  resolution  to
  such  effect  and  filing a certified copy thereof with the comptroller.
  Such resolution shall be accompanied  by  the  affidavit  of  the  chief
  executive officer of the county that the county has received an estimate
  from  the  retirement system of the cost of the benefit provided by this
  section.
3. Such resolution shall apply only to those  members  as  defined  in
  subdivisions a and b of this section.