13.17 Regional state park police. 1. All members of any police force of a regional state park commission, as heretofore constituted, shall, unless transferred by or pursuant to any other provision of law, continue to be members of the park police force of their respective regions, in the office.
2. Any member who shall complete twenty-five years of total service as a member of the New York regional state park police on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-six but who has not attained sixty-two years of age at the time of completion of such period of service, shall be separated from such service upon attaining such age.
3. Any member who shall attain sixty-two years of age on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, but who has not completed twenty-five years of such total service at the time of attaining such age, shall be separated from such service upon completing such period of service.
4. Any member appointed on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-five shall be separated from such service upon attaining sixty-two years of age.
5. The provisions of subdivisions two, three and four of this section shall not apply to the commanding officer or chief of any police force of a park region, nor to any member who has not elected and is not required to contribute in accordance with sections three hundred eighty-three or three hundred eighty-three-a of the retirement and social security law.
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