N.Y. General Municipal Law § 208-c: Death benefits for dependent fathers or dependent mothers of certain police officers and firefighters

§ 208-c. Death benefits for dependent fathers or dependent mothers of

certain police officers and firefighters. 1. Notwithstanding any other

provision of law, and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided,

any municipality, as enumerated in section two hundred eight-b of this

chapter, may elect to make the death benefit provided thereunder

available and paid to the dependent father or dependent mother, as he

shall have nominated by written designation duly acknowledged and filed

with the chief officer of the municipality maintaining such police

department, or police force, or fire department; or, if there be no such

nomination, then to his dependent father or dependent mother, as such

chief officer, in his discretion, shall determine if

(a) The member shall leave no widow, or if his widow shall die before

receiving the total of the amounts provided in subdivision two of

section two hundred eight-b of this chapter, and

(b) He has no child or children under the age of eighteen surviving.

2. Application for such death benefit shall be made by the member's

dependent father or dependent mother in the manner provided in

subdivision four of section two hundred eight-b of this chapter.