N.Y. General Municipal Law § 93: Payment of certain insurance premiums for officers and employees of municipal corporations and agencies or instrumentalities thereof

§ 93. Payment of certain insurance premiums for officers and employees

of municipal corporations and agencies or instrumentalities thereof. 1.

The fiscal or disbursing officer of every municipal corporation is

hereby authorized to deduct from the wage or salary of any officer or

employee of the municipality who is insured under any group or group

plan of life, group accident or group health insurance or who is a

member of a corporation existing by virtue of article forty-three of the

insurance law, such amounts for the payment of the premium or premiums

or payments thereon, as such officer or employee may specify in a

writing filed with the said fiscal or disbursing officer and transmit to

the insurer the sum so deducted. Any such written authorization may be

withdrawn by such officer or employee or member at any time upon filing

written notice of such withdrawal with the fiscal or disbursing officer.

The provisions of this section shall apply to and be effective within

every city, county, town, village, school district and organized public

district in the state.

2. A municipal corporation, including a fire district, or town

improvement district governed by a separate board of commissioners, if a

group plan of life insurance provides that the employer shall contribute

a share of the cost of such insurance for its officers and employees, or

for the officers or employees of an agency or instrumentality thereof,

is authorized to appropriate a sum required to be paid under such plan

by the municipal corporation as employer. The sum to be paid by it under

such plan, in the discretion of the municipal corporation, may be any

percentage of the total cost, including the whole thereof. For the

purposes of this section, the term employee shall include the volunteer

firefighters of the municipality or fire district or employees,

commissioners, or officers of a town improvement district governed by a

separate board of commissioners.