2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 390 - Definitions.

§ 390. Definitions. Wherever used in this article:
1.  The  term  "board"  means  the  board  of  trustees  of  the state
  university of New York.
2. The term "state university" means the state university of New  York
  and  the  term  "community  college"  means  a  college  established and
  operated under article one hundred twenty-six of this chapter.
3. The term "eligible employees" means those  employees  in  positions
  requiring the performance of educational functions in teacher education,
  agriculture,  home  economics,  forestry,  ceramics, liberal and applied
  arts and  sciences,  engineering,  technical  skills,  crafts,  business
  education,   labor   and   industrial  relations,  medicine,  dentistry,
  veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, law,  public  affairs,  maritime
  officer  training,  academic  administration,  library  service, student
  activities, student personnel service and other professions required  to
  carry  on  the  work  of the state university and the colleges, schools,
  institutes, research centers, facilities and institutions comprising  it
  and  of  the community colleges. Such positions in the state university,
  including those at the state colleges of  agriculture,  home  economics,
  veterinary  medicine  or  industrial  and  labor  relations,  the  state
  agricultural experiment station at Geneva, or any other  institution  or
  agency  under  the  management  and  control  of  Cornell  university as
  representative of the board, and at the state college of ceramics  under
  the management and control of Alfred university as the representative of
  the  board,  and such positions in the community colleges shall be those
  certified to  the  board  by  the  chancellor  of  state  university  as
  requiring  the  performance  of  such  functions.  No person receiving a
  benefit by reason of his  retirement  from  any  retirement  or  pension
  system  of  New York state or any political subdivision thereof shall be
  eligible to elect the optional retirement program.
3-a. Beginning July first, two thousand thirteen, the  term  "eligible
  employees"  shall  also mean any person excluded from or not encompassed
  within a negotiating unit within the meaning of article fourteen of  the
  civil  service  law who would otherwise be entitled to receive a benefit
  under the retirement and  social  security  law  or  the  education  law
  initially  hired  on  or  after  July  first, two thousand thirteen with
  estimated annual wages of seventy-five thousand per  annum  or  greater.
  Such  estimate of annual wages to determine eligibility for the purposes
  of this subdivision shall be provided by the employer. For the  purposes
  of  this  subdivision,  a  newly  hired  state  employee whose immediate
  preceding employment was with another department, division, or agency of
  the state shall not be deemed to be an eligible employee.
4. The term "optional retirement program" means the retirement program
  established pursuant to this article.
5. The term "electing employee" shall mean any eligible  employee  who
  exercises  his  election  pursuant  to  this  article  to come under the
  optional retirement program.
6. The term "salary" means all amounts paid by or  for  the  state  as
  compensation  for  services  rendered  by an eligible employee holding a
  position with the state university or by or for a community  college  as
  compensation  for  services  rendered  by an eligible employee holding a
  position at such college.
7. The term "insurer" shall mean  a  life  insurance  corporation,  or
  other   corporation   subject   to   department  of  financial  services
  supervision.
8. The term "electing employer" means a community college which elects
  to offer the optional retirement program as herein provided.
8-a. Beginning July first, two thousand thirteen, the  term  "electing
  employer"  shall  also  mean any public employer within the state of New

  York that employs one or more employees who have elected to  participate
  in the optional retirement program established pursuant to this article.
9.  The  term  "local  sponsor"  means  any city, county, intermediate
  school district, or school district approved by the board, sponsoring or
  participating in the establishment or operation of a community college.