N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 210: Definitions

§ 210. Definitions. As used in this article:

a. The term "retired person" means a retired member of a retirement

system or pension plan administered by the state or any of its political

subdivisions who is receiving a retirement allowance for other than

physical disability.

b. The term "retirement allowance" means the total amount payable to a

retired person, whether in the form of pension or annuity, or both, from

a retirement system or systems or pension plan or plans administered by

the state or any of its political subdivisions.

c. The term "supplemental retirement payment" means the supplemental

pension payment or supplemental retirement allowance payable pursuant to

article four or article six of this chapter, or section B20-44.1 or

chapter forty-nine, title D, of the administrative code of the city of

New York, or any other state or local law providing for similar

supplemental pension payments or supplemental retirement allowances.

d. The term "final salary" means the maximum salary or compensation

which the retired person currently would be receiving in the position

from which he was last retired if he had not retired. If such position

has been abolished, the appropriate authority or officer prescribed in

paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred eleven of this

chapter shall determine, on the basis of the salary or compensation

currently paid to persons in similar or comparable positions by the

employer from whose service such retired person last retired, the

maximum amount of salary or compensation which such retired person

currently would be receiving in such position.

e. The term "public service" means the service of the state or any

political division thereof, including a special district, district

corporation, school district, board of cooperative educational services

or county vocational education and extension board, or the service of a

public benefit corporation or public authority created by or pursuant to

laws of the state of New York, or the service of any agency or

organization which contributes as a participating employer in a

retirement system or pension plan administered by the state or any of

its political subdivisions.

f. The term "former employer" means the state or a political

subdivision, public corporation, school district, board of cooperative

educational services, county vocational education and extension board,

or an agency or organization which contributes as a participating

employer in a retirement system or pension plan administered by the

state or any of its civil divisions, which directly paid the salary or

compensation of a retired person at any time during the two years

immediately preceding his retirement and who paid the salary on which

the retiree's retirement allowance is based.