§ 209-fff. Provisions relating to a membership date in the New York
city police pension fund attributable to service in the titles of police
cadet program and police cadet program II in the New York city police
department cadet program. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, upon election, any member of the New York city police pension
fund who is subject to article fourteen of the retirement and social
security law, and who served in the New York city police department
cadet program in the title of police cadet program or police cadet
program II prior to April first, two thousand twelve, but did not join
the New York city employees' retirement system while serving in either
such title, may purchase credit for the period of service in such titles
in the New York city police department cadet program by paying into the
New York city police pension fund all member contributions plus
interest, at a rate of five percent per annum, which would have been
payable to the New York city employees' retirement system under any
provision of law had such member joined the New York city employees'
retirement system on the earliest date that he or she was appointed to
the title of police cadet program or police cadet program II in the New
York city police department cadet program, provided such payment is made
within five years after the effective date of this section.

2. Any member of the New York city police pension fund who acquires
service credit pursuant to this section shall be entitled to all rights,
benefits and privileges to which he or she would have been entitled had
his or her membership in the New York city police pension fund begun
upon the earliest date that he or she was appointed to the title of
police cadet program or police cadet program II in the New York city
police department cadet program, but in no event shall the service
credit acquired pursuant to this section be deemed to be service in the
police force or any other type of service counted or creditable as
service in the police force under section 13-218 of the administrative
code of the city of New York, section five hundred thirteen of the
retirement and social security law or any other provision of law for
purposes of eligibility for benefits and to determine the amount of
benefits under the New York city police pension fund.