STATE OF NEW YORK
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3129
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to granting members of the city's police force eligibility
for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic
enforcement agents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 13-633 to read as follows:
3 § 13-633 Transfer of members of the New York city police department
4 from traffic enforcement to the police force. a. The time served as a
5 member of the city's traffic enforcement who has become a member of the
6 police force of the city, whether by transfer or as a result of a
7 competitive examination and appointment, and who is still a member of
8 the police force of the city, shall be included and counted as service
9 in the police force for the police department of the city in determining
10 retirement and pension as provided in this code, provided, however,
11 that no person becoming a member of the police department of the city in
12 the manner herein provided, shall be entitled to participate in the
13 benefits of the police pension fund, unless he or she shall pay into
14 such fund the total sum that he or she would have been required to pay
15 in order to participate therein had he or she been a member of such
16 force from the time he or she entered the service of traffic enforce-
17 ment. These provisions shall not be subject to any restriction relative
18 to transfers contained in the civil service law or in the rules and
19 regulations of the civil service commission of the state, or any subdi-
20 vision thereof.
21 b. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a member of the New
22 York city police department shall be entitled to buy back and receive
23 service credit for the period of time such member was previously
24 employed as a New York city traffic enforcement agent pursuant to subdi-
25 vision a of this section.
26 § 2. 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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