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N.Y. General Municipal Law § 207-o*2: Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of correction departments in certain cities

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  1. General Municipal Law
  2. Article 10. Firefighters and Police Officers

* § 207-o. Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of

correction departments in certain cities. 1. 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, any condition of impairment of

health caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in total or partial

disability or death to 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, which examination failed to

reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence

that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless

the contrary be proved by competent evidence.

2. The provisions of this section shall remain in full force and

effect to and including the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred

ninety-nine at which time the provisions of this section shall be deemed

to be repealed.

* NB Expired July 1, 1995 per subdivision 2; see retirement and social

security law § 480 for expiration

* NB There are 2 § 207-o's

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