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SECTION 505
Service retirement benefits; police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator rev...
Retirement & Social Security (RSS) CHAPTER 51-A, ARTICLE 14
§ 505. Service retirement benefits; police/fire members, New York city
uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator
revised plan members. a. The normal service retirement benefit for
police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation
revised plan members and investigator revised plan members at normal
retirement age shall be a pension equal to fifty percent of final
average salary, less fifty percent of the primary social security
retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two, as provided in section
five hundred eleven of this article.

b. The early service retirement benefit for police/fire members, New
York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and
investigator revised plan members shall be a pension equal to two and
one-tenths percent of final average salary times years of credited
service at the completion of twenty years of service or upon attainment
of age sixty-two, increased by one-third of one percent of final average
salary for each month of service in excess of twenty years, but not in
excess of fifty percent of final average salary, less fifty percent of
the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age
sixty-two as provided in section five hundred eleven of this article,
provided, however, that New York city police/fire revised plan members,
New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and
investigator revised plan members shall not be eligible to retire for
service prior to the attainment of twenty years of credited service.

c. A police/fire member, a New York city uniformed
correction/sanitation revised plan member or an investigator revised
plan member who retires with twenty-two years of credited service or
less may become eligible for annual escalation of the service retirement
benefit if he elects to have the payment of his benefit commence on the
date he would have completed twenty-two years and one month or more of
service. In such event, the service retirement benefit shall equal two
percent of final average salary for each year of credited service, less
fifty percent of the primary social security retirement benefit
commencing at age sixty-two as provided in section five hundred eleven
of this article.