§ 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 is engaged directly in criminal law enforcement activities that aggregate fifty per centum of his or her service and is a police officer under the criminal procedure […]
§ 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 total creditable service on an allowance of one-fiftieth of his or her final average salary for each year of total service as a […]
§ 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 or she becomes a member, if his or her employer has elected to make […]
§ 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 specified in section five hundred fifty-two of this article may elect to make contributions for the purpose […]
§ 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 not be deemed to be affected by the provisions of this article, and any member who on the date this article takes effect is not required […]
§ 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 in which such member is employed, or 3. Some person acting on behalf of and authorized by such member. aa. At the time of the […]
§ 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. Physically or mentally incapacitated for performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of an accident not caused by his or her own willful […]
§ 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 diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to a member shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge […]
§ 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 provisions of this section in lieu of the provisions of section five hundred fifty-six of this article; except, however, any […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 years determined by the county.
