N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 559: Application

§ 559. Application. For purposes of accidental disability retirement

only, a sheriff, undersheriff or deputy sheriff engaged directly in

criminal law enforcement activities that aggregate fifty per centum of

his or her service and are police officers under the criminal procedure

law who last joined a public retirement system of the state or a

municipality thereof, on or after July first, nineteen hundred

seventy-three, but prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-five,

shall be subject to the provisions of article eleven of this chapter

that apply to members of the state and local police and fire retirement

system.