New York Retirement & Social Security Law Section 559 - Application.

  559. Application.  For purposes of accidental disability retirement
  only, a sheriff, undersheriff or  deputy  sheriff  engaged  directly  in
  criminal  law  enforcement activities that aggregate fifty per centum of
  his or her service and are police officers under the criminal  procedure
  law  who  last  joined  a  public  retirement  system  of the state or a
  municipality  thereof,  on  or  after  July  first,   nineteen   hundred
  seventy-three, but prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-five,
  shall  be  subject  to  the provisions of article eleven of this chapter
  that apply to members of the state and local police and fire  retirement
  system.

Last modified: February 3, 2019