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Senate Bill S9300

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-seven

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2025-S9300 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9291
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §§15-121 & 13-145.1, NYC Ad Cd

2025-S9300 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-seven.

2025-S9300 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9300 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9300
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to increasing the mandatory retirement age of members of the
   uniformed force of the fire department of the city of  New  York  from
   sixty-five to sixty-seven

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 15-121 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
 New York is amended to read as follows:
   §  15-121 Termination of service of members of uniformed force because
 of superannuation. a. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision  c  of
 this  section  no member of the uniformed force of the department except
 medical officers, who is or hereafter attains the  age  of  [sixty-five]
 SIXTY-SEVEN  years shall continue to serve as a member of such force but
 shall be retired and placed on the  pension  rolls  of  the  department,
 provided  however, that any member who is not eligible for retirement at
 age [sixty-five] SIXTY-SEVEN, shall continue to serve as a  member  only
 until such time as such member becomes eligible for such pension retire-
 ment.
   b.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision a of this section or
 of any other section of law, any member who  shall  not  have  completed
 thirty-five  years  of  creditable  city  service  within the meaning of
 subdivision h of section 13-304 of the code, prior to attaining the  age
 of  [sixty-five]  SIXTY-SEVEN  years  may  continue to serve as a member
 until [he or she] SUCH MEMBER  shall  have  completed  such  thirty-five
 years  of creditable city service, provided that [he or she] SUCH MEMBER
 is capable of performing  duty  acceptable  to  the  commissioner.  This
 section  does  not  apply to chaplains or medical officers. This section
 shall apply only to members who are in the department on the  first  day
 of December, nineteen hundred seventy-one.
   c.  Any  member  whose  retirement  has  become  mandatory  under  the
 provisions of subdivision a of this section may, upon  approval  of  the
 commissioner,  request  of  the  board of estimate that [he or she] SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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