New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 4 - DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE › Chapter V - Regulations Of The Department Of Civil Service (president's Regulations) › Part 75 - Managerial/confidential Group Term Life Insurance Plan › Section 75.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The term plan
				means the group term life insurance provided under contract with an insurer,
				and amendments thereto, including all the benefits provided thereunder, and all
				conditions and limitations applicable pursuant to such contracts or as
				prescribed by the President of the Civil Service Commission for employees
				serving in positions designated managerial/confidential pursuant to article 14
				of the Civil Service Law.
(b) The
				term insurer means an insurance corporation or company subject to supervision
				by the New York State Insurance Department. The insurer shall be designated by
				the president.
(c) The term
				employer shall include the State of New York (in all its departments and
				agencies and those departments and agencies of the State maintained and
				financed from special or administrative funds) and any participating employer.
				The term participating employer shall mean a county, city having a population
				of less than one million inhabitants, town, village or any other political
				subdivision or civil division of the State, a school district or any
				governmental entity operating a public school, college or university, a public
				improvement or special district, a public authority, commission or public
				benefit corporation, or any other public corporation, agency or instrumentality
				or unit of government which exercises governmental powers under the laws of
				this State, which elects, with the approval of the president, to include its
				employees and retirees in the plan.
(d) The term employee means any person in the
				service of an employer on or after the effective date of the extension of this
				plan to employees of such employers serving in a position designated
				managerial/confidential pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law.
				Persons employed on a full-time basis by the Public Employment Relations Board
				shall be deemed designated managerial or confidential for the purposes of this
				Part. The Director of Employee Relations, with respect to the State of New
				York, shall certify to the president those positions of the State designated
				managerial/confidential pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law. The
				Public Employment Relations Board shall certify to the president positions,
				other than positions with the State, designated managerial/confidential by the
				board pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law.
(e) The term retiree shall mean a person who
				has become enrolled in the plan as an employee and whose coverage is being
				continued after withdrawal from the active service of the employer under the
				eligibility privileges of the plan and who either:
(1) has retired as a member of the retirement
				or pension plan or system administered and operated by the State of New York,
				or a civil division thereof, including the New York State Teachers' Retirement
				System; or
(2) is a member of a
				retirement or pension plan or system referred to in paragraph (1) of this
				subdivision who is qualified to retire under such plan or system, but who
				elects to defer receipt of the pension after withdrawal from the active service
				of the employer; or
(3) was not a
				member of a retirement or pension plan or system referred to in paragraph (1)
				of this subdivision, and is withdrawn or does withdraw from the active service
				of an employer after attaining such age and service requirements as would have
				been required to retire as a member of the New York State and Local Employees'
				Retirement System.