S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6083
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 13, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MARKEY, DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Employees
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:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 208-f of the general municipal
law, as separately amended by chapters 583 and 742 of the laws of 2004,
is amended to read as follows:
a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special accidental
death benefit provided by this section shall be paid to the widow or
widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or,
if a student under the age of twenty-three, if the widow or widower has
died of: (i) a deceased member of a pension or retirement system of a
police department or paid fire department of a city, town or village;
(ii) a deceased paid member of the police force of the police department
of the New York city transit authority; (iii) a deceased paid member of
the police force of the police department of the New York city housing
authority; (iv) a deceased paid member of the uniformed correction force
of the New York city department of correction; (v) a deceased paid
uniformed member of a county sheriff's department (outside the city of
New York); [or] (vi) a deceased employee of the city of New York or the
New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties
are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency
medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
one of the public health law), or in a title whose duties require the
supervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical
technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are
defined in section three thousand one of the public health law); [or
(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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city employees' retirement system; OR (VIII) A DECEASED EMPLOYEE OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, providing the widow or
widower is ineligible to receive benefits pursuant to section three
hundred sixty-one-a of the retirement and social security law as added
by chapter four hundred seventy-two of the laws of nineteen hundred
seventy-eight and the deceased member:
1. Died before the effective date of his or her retirement, as the
natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance
of duty in the service upon which his membership was based, and
2. Did not cause such accident by his or her own willful negligence,
and
3. At the time of such accident was actually a member of: (i) a
pension or retirement system of a police department or paid fire depart-
ment of a city, town or village; (ii) a pension or retirement system
covering the police force of the police department of the New York city
transit authority; (iii) a pension or retirement system covering the
police force of the police department of the New York city housing
authority; (iv) a pension or retirement system covering the uniformed
correction force of the New York city department of correction; (v) a
pension or retirement system covering uniformed members of a county
sheriff's department (outside the city of New York); [or] (vi) a pension
or retirement system covering employees of the city of New York, or the
New York city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties
are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency
medical technician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand
one of the public health law), or in a title whose duties require the
supervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical
technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are
defined in section three thousand one of the public health law); [or
(vi)] (VII) a pension or retirement system covering paid bridge and
tunnel members of the New York city employees' retirement system; OR
(VIII) A PENSION OR RETIREMENT SYSTEM COVERING EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.