N.Y. Education Law § 6211: College presidents emeriti; appointments, duties, qualifications, salary

§ 6211. College presidents emeriti; appointments, duties,

qualifications, salary. The board of trustees shall be authorized to

appoint, notwithstanding the provisions of any local law or charter to

the contrary, as president emeritus any retired president of an existing

college unit or a college unit hereafter to be created other than

teachers' training schools, whose duty it shall be to consult and advise

with educational officers as and when requested by the president, or

head of such college unit. No person shall be eligible for such

appointment unless he shall have been duly retired from such college

unit. He shall receive for the duration of his life such annual salary

as the board of trustees or like financial authority, shall determine.

The salary is to be in lieu of the annual pension to which such retired

president would be entitled during his lifetime but is not to be

construed as depriving him at the time of his retirement of the right to

choose an option or as depriving his estate or beneficiary of any death

benefit accruing to such estate or beneficiary under the law.