N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 606-c: Death benefits for correction officers employed by Westchester county

* § 606-c. Death benefits for correction officers employed by

Westchester county. a. As used in this section, the term "correction

officer" shall mean a person employed by the Westchester county

correction department with a title of correction officer, correction

officer-sergeant, correction officer-captain, assistant warden,

associate warden or warden.

b. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, where a

correction officer would have been entitled to a service retirement

benefit at the time of his or her death and where his or her death

occurs on or after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two

thousand twenty-three that added this section, the beneficiary or

beneficiaries may elect to receive, in a lump sum, an amount payable

which shall be equal to the pension reserve that would have been

established had the member retired on the date of his or her death, or

the value of the death benefit and the

reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay, if any, whichever is greater.

* NB There are 2 § 606-c's