N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 417: Preservation of rights of certain members

§ 417. Preservation of rights of certain members. Notwithstanding the

repeal by this chapter of sections eighty-one, eighty-one-a, eighty-two,

eighty-three, eighty-three-a, eighty-four, eighty-four-a (such sections

eighty-four-a having been separately added by chapters five hundred

sixty-five and five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred

sixty-five), eighty-five, eighty-five-a, eighty-six, eighty-seven and

eighty-eight of article two of this chapter, as amended, the rights,

privileges and immunities of persons who are members of the state

employees' retirement system pursuant to such sections and who are

transferred to the retirement system established by this article, on the

effective date thereof, shall not be affected or impaired, but the same

may be enjoyed, asserted or enforced as fully and to the same extent as

if such sections had not been so repealed.