§ 162. Retired employees and certain widows and dependents eligible
for supplemental pensions. 1. State retired employees and state retired
teachers shall be entitled to receive, one month after such retirement,
monthly supplemental pension payments as provided in this article.

2. Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and
amend a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for monthly
supplemental pension payments both to local retired employees thereof
and local retired teachers of a school district located therein. Any
county, city, town or village is hereby authorized and empowered to
adopt and amend local laws, ordinances and resolutions, effective for
specified periods of not to exceed three years each, subject to
extension or renewal for specified periods of not to exceed three years
each, to provide for monthly supplemental pension payments for widows,
dependent children or dependent parents of deceased members or deceased
retired members of the uniformed force of a police department or fire
department. Any such local law, ordinance or resolution shall prescribe
equitable methods for providing supplemental pensions and computing the
amounts thereof and may contain provisions necessary and appropriate for
proper administration, including a provision requiring the filing of
verified applications for such payments.

3. The monthly supplemental pensions paid to local retired employees
shall not exceed the monthly supplemental pensions paid to state retired
employees pursuant to this article. The monthly supplemental pensions
paid to local retired teachers shall not exceed the monthly supplemental
pensions paid to state retired teachers pursuant to this article. The
total of all the annual retirement allowances or pension payments to the
widow or widower, dependent children and dependent parents of a deceased
member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police
department or a fire department shall not be increased by more than an
amount which, when added to all annual retirement allowances and pension
payments being made to all of such beneficiaries, and the annual
retirement allowances or pension payments which could have been made to
them in lieu of any lump sum settlement that was made instead, on
account of the death of any such police officer or firefighter, by such
county, city, town or village, or by a retirement or pension system or
plan on behalf of the county, city, town or village, shall not exceed a
total of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

4. As used herein the following terms shall include:

(a) "Widow". Only the widow, who has not remarried, of a deceased
member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police or
fire department;

(b) "Dependent children". Only children under the age of eighteen of a
deceased member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a
police or fire department;

(c) "Dependent parents". Only a father or mother, or both collectively
if both are living, of the deceased member or deceased retired member of
the uniformed force of a police or fire department, where neither
dependent widow nor dependent children under age eighteen survive such
member or retired member.