N.Y. General Municipal Law § 207-n: Performance of duty disability retirement

§ 207-n. Performance of duty disability retirement. Notwithstanding

the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative

code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers'

compensation law and the labor law, a paid member of the uniformed force

of a paid correction department, where such paid member is drawn from

competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical

examination on entry into the service of such department, who contracts

HIV (where there may have been exposure to a bodily fluid of an

incarcerated individual or any person confined in an institution under

the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community

supervision, or the department of health, or any person who has been

committed to such institution by any court as a natural and proximate

result of an act of any incarcerated individual or person described

above, that may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible

disease from an incarcerated individual or person described above to the

member), tuberculosis or hepatitis will be presumed to have contracted

such disease in the performance or discharge of his or her duties,

unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.