New York Retirement & Social Security Law Article 14-B - SPECIAL RETIREMENT PLANS FOR SHERIFFS, UNDERSHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES

• 550 - Definitions.
  For purposes of this article the terms: a. 1. "Member" shall mean a person who is employed as a sheriff, undersheriff or deputy sheriff who...
• 551 - Optional Retirement of Certain Members.
  a. Any member may elect to contribute to the retirement system on the basis of retirement upon his or her completion of twenty-five years of...
• 552 - Optional Twenty Year Retirement Plan for Certain Members Whose Employer Elects to Provide Same.
  a. Any member of the retirement system may elect to become a member pursuant to the provisions of this section within one year after he...
• 553 - Additional Pension Benefit for Members of Optional Twenty Year Retirement Plan.
  a. A participating employer which has elected, or which elects to provide the benefits of the optional twenty year retirement plan for its employees as...
• 554 - Consistent Provisions.
  Any other provisions of this chapter relating to mandatory contribution to the retirement system based upon a member's date of membership in such system shall...
• 555 - Ordinary Disability Retirement.
  a. Application for an ordinary disability retirement allowance for a member may be made by: 1. Such member, or 2. The head of the department...
• 556 - Accidental Disability Retirement.
  a. A member shall be entitled to an accidental disability retirement allowance if, at the time application therefor is filed, he or she is: 1....
• 557 - Members; Certain Disabilities.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused by...
• 558 - Retirement for Disability Incurred in Performance of Duty.
  a. After January first, nineteen hundred eighty-five, a member who becomes physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of duty shall be covered by the...
• 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...
• 560 - Past Service Payments.
  Any past service payments required by a county that adopts the provisions of this article may be paid over a period of five or ten...

Last modified: February 3, 2019