Bill Text: NY S04980 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - SIGNED CHAP.477 [S04980 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04980-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4980--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Civil  Service  and  Pensions  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  authorize the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional
          twenty year retirement plan to a certain police  officer  employed  by
          such village
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  Jose Quinoy, a member of the New York state and local  police  and  fire
     3  retirement system, who was employed as a police officer with the village
     4  of  Sleepy  Hollow  from  August 10, 1998 through May 31, 2011, and who,
     5  through no fault of his own, failed to  file  a  timely  application  to
     6  participate  in  the  special  twenty  year retirement plan contained in
     7  section 384-d of the retirement and social security law resulting in the
     8  crediting of his service with the village of Sleepy Hollow in the gener-
     9  al retirement plan contained in section 375-i  of  such  law,  shall  be
    10  given  full  credit  in the special twenty year retirement plan for such
    11  service upon the election of the village of Sleepy Hollow to assume  the
    12  additional  cost  of  such  service. The village of Sleepy Hollow may so
    13  elect by filing a resolution of its local legislative body together with
    14  certification that such police officer did not bar himself from  partic-
    15  ipation in such retirement plan as a result of his own negligence.
    16    §  2. All employer past service costs associated with implementing the
    17  provisions of this act shall be borne by the village  of  Sleepy  Hollow
    18  and may be amortized over a ten year period.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
          FISCAL NOTE. -- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07790-05-6