N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 550: Definitions

§ 550. Definitions. For purposes of this article the terms:

a. 1. "Member" shall mean a person who is employed as a sheriff,

undersheriff or deputy sheriff who is engaged directly in criminal law

enforcement activities that aggregate fifty per centum of his or her

service and is a police officer under the criminal procedure law, as

certified by the county sheriff, by any county which elects by

resolution duly adopted, to provide the benefits as authorized by this

article.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph one of this

subdivision, member shall also include a deputy sheriff who is a police

officer pursuant to subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the

criminal procedure law as certified by the municipal police council or

as certified by the police department of the city of New York upon

satisfactory completion of the basic training program and graduation

from the New York city police academy, provided that the employer has

filed an election to that effect pursuant to paragraph two of

subdivision j of section five hundred fifty-two of this article.

b. "Retirement system" shall mean the New York state and local

employees' retirement system.