§ 450. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: (1) the term
"correction officer" shall mean members of the New York state and local
employees' retirement system who are in a plan limited to uniformed
personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of
corrections and community supervision or members of such system who are
also in titles defined in subdivision i of section eighty-nine of this
chapter and correction members of the New York city employees'
retirement system; (2) the term "police officer or firefighter" shall
mean members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement
system, the New York city police pension fund, New York city fire
department pension fund, and housing police members and transit police
members of the New York city employees' retirement system; (3) the term
"sanitation man" shall mean sanitation members of the New York city
employees' retirement system; and (4) the term "investigator member"
shall mean members who are police officers as defined in paragraph (g)
of subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure
law.