N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 89-r: Retirement of county park police officers in Suffolk county

§ 89-r. Retirement of county park police officers in Suffolk county.

a. Any member who is employed by Suffolk county as a park police

officer shall be eligible to retire pursuant to the provisions of this

section. Such eligibility shall be an alternative to the eligibility

provisions available under any other plan of this article to which such

member is subject. The parks commissioner of the Suffolk county

department of parks shall certify to the comptroller, periodically and

at such intervals of time as may be required of him or her and in such

fashion as may be prescribed, the identity of the eligible park police

officers in his or her employ.

b. Such member shall be entitled to retire upon the completion of

twenty-five years of total creditable service by filing an application

therefor in the manner provided for in section seventy of this article.

c. Upon completion of twenty-five years of such service and upon

retirement, each such member shall receive a pension which, together

with an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his or her

accumulated contributions at the time of his or her retirement and an

additional pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the

reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he or she may then be

entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or her with a retirement

allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.

d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any and

all services performed as a park police officer of the Suffolk county

department of parks, and any and all services performed as a park ranger

of the Suffolk county department of parks.

e. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as

a paid firefighter, police officer or officer of any organized fire

department or police force or department of any county, city, village,

town, fire district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in

the office of a district attorney, provided that service as such

investigator shall have been rendered prior to January first, nineteen

hundred sixty and that credit therefor shall not exceed five years,

shall also be deemed to be creditable service and shall be included in

computing years of total service for retirement pursuant to this

section, provided such service was performed by the member while

contributing to the retirement system pursuant to the provisions of this

article or article eight of this chapter.

f. A member contributing on the basis of this section at the time of

retirement, shall retire after the completion of twenty-five years of

total creditable service. Application therefor may be filed in a manner

similar to that provided in section seventy of this article. Upon

completion of twenty-five years of such service and upon retirement,

each such member shall receive a pension which, together with an annuity

which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his or her accumulated

contributions at the time of his or her retirement and an additional

pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the

reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he or she may then be

entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or her with a retirement

allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.

g. In computing the twenty-five years of total service of a member

pursuant to this section full credit shall be given and full allowance

shall be made for service of such member in time of war after World War

I as defined in section two of this chapter, provided such member at the

time of his or her entrance into the armed forces was in the service of

the county of Suffolk.

h. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a member, who does not

retire pursuant to the provisions of this section, from utilizing

service which is creditable service pursuant to the provisions of this

section for service credit pursuant to the provisions of any other plan

of this article to which such member is subject.

i. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding

any other provision in this article to the contrary.