N.Y. General Municipal Law § 207-p: Performance of duty disability retirement; police and fire department

§ 207-p. Performance of duty disability retirement; police and fire

department. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or

administrative code to the contrary, any paid member of a fire

department and/or a paid police department, in a city with a population

of one million or more who successfully passed a physical examination

upon entry into the service of such department who 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, rescued 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 or proximate

result of an accidental injury received in the performance and discharge

of his or her duties and not as a result of his or her willful

negligence, unless the contrary be provided by competent evidence.