STATE OF NEW YORK
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6035
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
August 21, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing a
special accidental death benefit to employees of the department of
sanitation of the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 208-f of the general municipal
2 law, as separately amended by chapters 583 and 742 of the laws of 2004,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special accidental
5 death benefit provided by this section shall be paid to the widow or
6 widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or,
7 if a student under the age of twenty-three, if the widow or widower has
8 died of: (i) a deceased member of a pension or retirement system of a
9 police department or paid fire department of a city, town or village;
10 (ii) a deceased paid member of the police force of the police department
11 of the New York city transit authority; (iii) a deceased paid member of
12 the police force of the police department of the New York city housing
13 authority; (iv) a deceased paid member of the uniformed correction force
14 of the New York city department of correction; (v) a deceased paid
15 uniformed member of a county sheriff's department (outside the city of
16 New York); [or] (vi) a deceased employee of the city of New York or the
17 New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties
18 are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency
19 medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
20 one of the public health law), or in a title whose duties require the
21 supervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical
22 technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are
23 defined in section three thousand one of the public health law); [or
24 (vi)] (vii) a deceased paid bridge and tunnel member of the New York
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 city employees' retirement system; or (viii) a deceased employee of the
2 department of sanitation of the city of New York, providing the widow or
3 widower is ineligible to receive benefits pursuant to section three
4 hundred sixty-one-a of the retirement and social security law as added
5 by chapter four hundred seventy-two of the laws of nineteen hundred
6 seventy-eight and the deceased member:
7 1. Died before the effective date of his or her retirement, as the
8 natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance
9 of duty in the service upon which his membership was based, and
10 2. Did not cause such accident by his or her own willful negligence,
11 and
12 3. At the time of such accident was actually a member of: (i) a
13 pension or retirement system of a police department or paid fire depart-
14 ment of a city, town or village; (ii) a pension or retirement system
15 covering the police force of the police department of the New York city
16 transit authority; (iii) a pension or retirement system covering the
17 police force of the police department of the New York city housing
18 authority; (iv) a pension or retirement system covering the uniformed
19 correction force of the New York city department of correction; (v) a
20 pension or retirement system covering uniformed members of a county
21 sheriff's department (outside the city of New York); [or] (vi) a pension
22 or retirement system covering employees of the city of New York, or the
23 New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties
24 are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency
25 medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
26 one of the public health law), or in a title whose duties require the
27 supervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical
28 technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are
29 defined in section three thousand one of the public health law); [or
30 (vi)] (vii) a pension or retirement system covering paid bridge and
31 tunnel members of the New York city employees' retirement system; or
32 (viii) a pension or retirement system covering employees of the depart-
33 ment of sanitation of the city of New York.
34 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
