N.Y. General Municipal Law § 207-e*2: Minimum retirement benefits for firefighters in cities and who are members of fire department pension or retirement systems maintained by...

* § 207-e. Minimum retirement benefits for firefighters in cities and

who are members of fire department pension or retirement systems

maintained by such cities. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any

general, special or local law, charter or administrative code to the

contrary, and in lieu of any lesser amount otherwise prescribed, any

person who is an officer or member of the uniformed force of the fire

department of a city, and is a member of a fire department pension or

retirement system maintained by such city, and who has completed service

as a member of such city-maintained fire department pension or

retirement system for the minimum number of years specified in such plan

or option selected by him as a necessary prerequisite for a pension or

retirement allowance on account of retirement for service shall, upon

retirement for service, receive a pension or retirement allowance on

account of such minimum service which shall, subject to the provisions

of this section, be equal to one-half of his annual compensation

earnable upon the date of his retirement.

2. Where a city-maintained pension plan or retirement system for

officers or members of the uniformed force of the fire department of

such city provides, upon retirement for service, for a retirement

allowance consisting of a pension plus an annuity which is the actuarial

equivalent of the member's accumulated contributions at the time of his

retirement, then in that event there shall be added by the city,

whenever required, a further pension of such amount which together with

the member's annuity shall be sufficient to provide him with a

retirement allowance equal to one-half of his annual compensation

earnable on the date of his retirement. For the purpose only of

determining the amount of the additional pension contribution by the

city that may be required, the member's annuity, if any, shall be

computed as it would be, (a) if it were not reduced by the actuarial

equivalent of any outstanding loan, (b) if it were not increased by the

actuarial equivalent of any additional contributions, (c) if it were not

reduced by reason of the member's election to decrease his annuity

contributions in order to apply the amount of such reduction in payment

of his contributions for old-age and survivors insurance coverage, (d)

as it would be without any optional modification.

3. Where a city-maintained pension plan or retirement system for

officers or members of the uniformed force of the fire department of

such city provides for disability retirement, such retirement allowance

shall be computed on the basis of the annual compensation earnable on

the date of the retirement for disability of any member.

4. Where additional retirement benefits are payable under the

city-maintained pension plan or retirement system, or are required to be

paid pursuant to section two hundred seven-b of this chapter, such

additional benefits shall be paid, for service in addition to and in

excess of the minimum service requirements, in addition to the minimum

retirement benefits required to be paid by this section.

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

New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

* NB There are 2 § 207-e's