N.Y. General Municipal Law § 207-b: Additional retirement benefits for certain firefighters in cities

§ 207-b. Additional retirement benefits for certain firefighters in

cities. 1. As used in this section:

a. "Final compensation" means the average annual salary or wages for

services as a firefighter earned from the date of his or her minimum

period to the date of his or her retirement.

b. " Firefighter" means a paid officer or member of the uniformed

force of the fire department of a city.

c. "Minimum period" means a fixed number of years of service as a

firefighter specified in a plan or option elected by him or her as a

necessary prerequisite for a pension or retirement allowance upon

retirement from such service.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local

law, charter or administrative code and in lieu of any lesser amount

thereby prescribed, in the event a firefighter has served as such for

his or her minimum period and thereafter continues in such service, upon

his or her subsequent retirement for any cause whatsoever, there shall

be added to the amount of the annual pension or retirement allowance to

which he or she was entitled upon such retirement, an additional amount

computed at the rate of one-sixtieth of his or her final compensation

for each year of such additional service.

3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to members of the

New York state and local police and fire retirement system.