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

* § 207-o. 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 employee who performs the

functions of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency

medical technician, where such employee is drawn from competitive civil

service lists and successfully passed a physical examination on

employment, who, on or after March seventeenth, nineteen hundred

ninety-six, contracts HIV (where the employee may have been exposed to a

bodily fluid of a person under his or her care or treatment, or while

the employee examined, transported or otherwise had contact with such

person, in the performance of his or her duties) tuberculosis or

hepatitis, will be presumed to have contracted such disease as a natural

and proximate result of an accidental injury received in the performance

or discharge of his or her duties and not resulting from his or her

willful negligence, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.

* NB There are 2 § 207-o's