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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee  on  Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  granting  members of the city's police force eligibility
   for retirement and  pension  based  on  previous  service  as  traffic
   enforcement agents
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
 by adding a new section 13-633 to read as follows:
   §  13-633  TRANSFER  OF MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
 FROM TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT TO THE POLICE FORCE. A. THE TIME  SERVED  AS  A
 MEMBER  OF THE CITY'S TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT WHO HAS BECOME A MEMBER OF THE
 UNIFORMED FORCE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY, WHETHER BY  TRANS-
 FER OR AS A RESULT OF A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION AND APPOINTMENT, AND WHO
 IS STILL A MEMBER OF THE UNIFORMED FORCE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE
 CITY,  SHALL  BE  INCLUDED  AND  COUNTED AS POLICE SERVICE AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION 13-214 OF THIS TITLE IN DETERMINING RETIREMENT AND PENSION BENE-
 FITS AS PROVIDED IN THIS CODE AND THE RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
 IF SUCH PERSON BECOMES A MEMBER OF A STATE  OR  CITY  RETIREMENT  SYSTEM
 AVAILABLE  TO  MEMBERS  OF  THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY, PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT NO PERSON BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE UNIFORMED FORCE OF  THE
 POLICE  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE CITY IN THE MANNER HEREIN PROVIDED, SHALL BE
 ENTITLED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BENEFITS OF A STATE  OR  CITY  RETIREMENT
 SYSTEM AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY, UNLESS
 SUCH  PERSON  SHALL  PAY  INTO  SUCH FUND THE TOTAL SUM THAT SUCH PERSON
 WOULD HAVE BEEN REQUIRED TO PAY IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE THEREIN HAD SUCH
 PERSON BEEN A MEMBER OF SUCH  FORCE  FROM  THE  TIME  THEY  ENTERED  THE
 SERVICE OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. THESE PROVISIONS SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO
 ANY RESTRICTION RELATIVE TO TRANSFERS CONTAINED IN THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02377-03-5
              

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 OR  IN  THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE
 STATE, OR ANY SUBDIVISION THEREOF.
   B.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISIONS OF LAW, A MEMBER OF THE NEW
 YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT SHALL BE ENTITLED TO BUY  BACK  AND  RECEIVE
 SERVICE  CREDIT  FOR  THE  PERIOD  OF  TIME  SUCH  MEMBER WAS PREVIOUSLY
 EMPLOYED AS A NEW YORK CITY TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AGENT PURSUANT TO SUBDI-
 VISION A OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.