N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 31-d: Participation by the Pioneer Library System

§ 31-d. Participation by the Pioneer Library System. a. The Pioneer

Library System may, by resolution adopted by its board of trustees and

approved by the comptroller, elect to participate in the retirement

system. Acceptance of its employees for membership in the retirement

system shall be optional with the comptroller, who shall determine the

amounts of contribution payable by such system and its employees, shall

resolve questions of credit for prior service, and shall in all other

respects assure that such employees share the same rights, obligations

and benefits as other members of the retirement system.

b. The officers and employees of such system shall be credited with

such periods of prior service as shall be certified by such system for

service rendered to it, or the state, or in any other capacity approved

by such system and the comptroller. Service for such system after the

date on which it commences to participate in the retirement system shall

be considered as member service. An officer or employee of such system

who, as of the date he or she is so approved for membership in the

retirement system, is already a member thereof, shall not have his or

her total credit reduced by such approval. Any reserve held on account

of any such officer or employee in the pension accumulation fund shall

be used as an offset against the deficiency contribution payable

thereafter by such system on account of such officer or employee for any

prior service credit and any such previous credit.