N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 363-dd: Impairments of health; presumption

§ 363-dd. Impairments of health; presumption. Notwithstanding any

provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law to the

contrary, any police officer or firefighter who is covered by the

provisions of section three hundred sixty-three of this title and who

contracts HIV, tuberculosis or hepatitis after contact with members of

the public (where there may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid)

will be presumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or

discharge of his or her duties as the natural and proximate result of an

accident and to be disabled from the performance of his or her duties

unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.