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a. Any member who serves as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor or a member who performs police medic related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department 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.
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 accumulated contributions at the time of his retirement and an additional pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he may then be entitled shall be sufficient to provide him with a retirement allowance equal to one-half of his final average salary.
d. As used in this section “creditable service” shall include any and all services performed as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic supervisor or a member who performs police medic related services in the Nassau county police department.
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, shall also be deemed to be creditable service and shall be included in computing years of total service for retirement pursuant to this section.
f. A member contributing on the basis of this section at the time of retirement, may 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 accumulated contributions at the time of his retirement and an additional pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he may then be entitled shall be sufficient to provide him with a retirement allowance equal to one-half of his final average salary; for service beyond twenty-five years the benefit is increased by one-sixtieth of final average salary for each year of additional service credit provided, however, that the total allowance payable pursuant to this section shall not exceed three-fourths of such member's 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 entrance into the armed forces was in the service of the county of Nassau.
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.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New York Consolidated Laws, Retirement and Social Security Law - RSS § 89-s. Retirement of members who serve as ambulance medical technicians, ambulance medical technician/supervisors, members who perform ambulance medical technician related services, police medics, police medic supervisors and members who perform police medic related services in the Nassau county police department - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/retirement-and-social-security-law/rss-sect-89-s/
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