Authorizes Peter G. LaSala, a police officer in the village of Potsdam, in the county of St. Lawrence, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7694
IN SENATE
May 12, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to authorize Peter G. LaSala to elect to participate in the
optional twenty-year retirement plan for police officers employed by
the village of Potsdam in the county of St. Lawrence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
2 the village of Potsdam, in the county of St. Lawrence, a participating
3 employer in the New York state and local police and fire retirement
4 system, which previously elected to offer the optional twenty-year
5 retirement plan, established pursuant to section 384-d of the retirement
6 and social security law, to police officers employed by such village, is
7 hereby authorized to make participation in such plan available to Peter
8 G. LaSala, a police officer employed by such village, who, for reasons
9 not ascribable to his own negligence, failed to make a timely applica-
10 tion to participate in such optional twenty-year retirement plan. There-
11 after, Peter G. LaSala may elect to be covered by the provisions of
12 section 384-d of the retirement and social security law, and shall be
13 entitled to the full rights and benefits associated with coverage under
14 such section as well as section 384-e of such law, by filing a request
15 to that effect with the state comptroller on or before December 31,
16 2016.
17 § 2. All past service costs associated with implementing the
18 provisions of this act shall be borne by the village of Potsdam and may
19 be paid over a period of ten years.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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