N.Y. Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 606: Personnel administration; pension, retirement and other benefits

§ 606. Personnel administration; pension, retirement and other

benefits. 1. For the purposes of this section, all employees of the New

York city off-track betting corporation on or after the effective date

of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eight which amended this

section shall remain employees of such corporation after such effective

date.

2. The corporation shall administer its personnel pursuant to the

civil service law and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,

and classification and compensation schedules of the state department of

civil service, and all other applicable provisions of general laws

relating to civil service administration. The corporation shall retain

all personnel, payroll and associated employee records and shall ensure

that the New York city employees' retirement system has access to such

records for retirement purposes consistent with current records

retention requirements.

3. Any officer or employee of the corporation who heretofore acquired

or shall hereafter acquire such position status by transfer and who at

the time of such transfer was a member of the New York city employees'

retirement system shall, with respect to such retirement system,

continue to have the rights, privileges, obligations and status which

would have applied to him if he had continued to hold the office or

position which entitled him to such membership prior to such transfer.

Employment by the corporation shall constitute city-service for the

purposes of chapter one of title thirteen of the administrative code of

the city of New York.

4. All employees and officers of the corporation in classes or

positions whose incumbents, in equivalent classes or positions of the

city, are eligible, as of the effective date hereof, to participate in,

and receive benefits from any city authorized health insurance or

welfare benefit program, shall be eligible to participate in, and

receive benefits from any such health insurance or welfare benefit

program; provided, however, that the corporation shall reimburse the

city or its designee for the actual cost of benefits under this

subdivision.