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§ 89-g. Retirement of county correction officers, uniformed correction\ndivision personnel, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and undersheriffs in\nNassau county. a. A member employed in Nassau county shall be eligible\nto retire pursuant to the provisions of this section if:
(1)he is a\nsheriff or undersheriff, or a deputy sheriff who is engaged directly in\ncriminal law enforcement activities; or (2) he is a correction officer\nor a uniformed correction division personnel. Such eligibility shall be\nan alternative to the eligibility provisions available under any other\nplan of this article to which such member is subject.\n b. Such member shall be entitled to retire upon the completion of\ntwenty-five years of total creditable service by filing an application\ntherefor in the manner provide
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§ 89-g. Retirement of county correction officers, uniformed correction\ndivision personnel, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and undersheriffs in\nNassau county. a. A member employed in Nassau county shall be eligible\nto retire pursuant to the provisions of this section if: (1) he is a\nsheriff or undersheriff, or a deputy sheriff who is engaged directly in\ncriminal law enforcement activities; or (2) he is a correction officer\nor a uniformed correction division personnel. Such eligibility shall be\nan alternative to the eligibility provisions available under any other\nplan of this article to which such member is subject.\n b. Such member shall be entitled to retire upon the completion of\ntwenty-five years of total creditable service by filing an application\ntherefor in the manner provided for in section seventy of this article.\n c. Upon completion of twenty-five years of such service and upon\nretirement, each such member shall receive a pension which, together\nwith an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his\naccumulated contributions at the time of his retirement and an\nadditional pension which is the actuarial equivalent of the\nreserved-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he may then be entitled\nshall be sufficient to provide him with a retirement allowance equal to\none-half of his final average salary.\n d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include (1) in\nthe case of a sheriff, undersheriff, correction officer or uniformed\ncorrection division personnel, any and all services performed as a\nsheriff, undersheriff and/or correction officer or uniformed correction\ndivision personnel of Nassau county and all criminal law enforcement\nservices performed as a deputy sheriff of such county, provided,\nhowever, that criminal law enforcement service shall only be creditable\nwhen it aggregates fifty per centum or more of his service as a deputy\nsheriff and (2) in the case of a deputy sheriff, all criminal law\nenforcement service shall only be creditable when it aggregates fifty\nper centum or more of such service and any and all services performed as\na sheriff, undersheriff and/or correction officer or uniformed\ncorrection division personnel of such county.\n e. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as\na paid firefighter, police officer or officer of any organized fire\ndepartment or police force or department of any county, city, village,\ntown, fire district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in\nthe office of a district attorney, provided that service as such\ninvestigator shall have been rendered prior to January first, nineteen\nhundred sixty and that credit therefor shall not exceed five years,\nshall also be deemed to be creditable service and shall be included in\ncomputing years of total service for retirement pursuant to this\nsection, provided such service was performed by the member while\ncontributing to the retirement system pursuant to the provisions of this\narticle or article eight of this chapter.\n f. The sheriff shall certify to the comptroller, periodically and at\nsuch intervals of time as may be required of him and in such fashion as\nmay be prescribed, the identity of: (1) the deputy sheriffs in the\nsheriff's employ who are engaged directly in criminal law enforcement\nactivities; and (2) the eligible correction officers and uniformed\ncorrection division personnel.\n g. A member, contributing on the basis of this section at the time of\nretirement, shall retire after the completion of twenty-five years of\ntotal creditable service. Application therefor may be filed in a manner\nsimilar to that provided in section seventy of this article. Upon\ncompletion of twenty-five years of such service and upon retirement,\neach such member shall receive a pension which, together with an annuity\nwhich shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions\nat the time of his retirement and an additional pension which is the\nactuarial equivalent of the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay to which\nhe may then be entitled shall be sufficient to provide him with a\nretirement allowance equal to one-half of his final average salary.\n h. In computing the twenty-five years of total service of a member\npursuant to this section full credit shall be given and full allowance\nshall be made for service of such member in time of war after World War\nI as defined in section two of this chapter, provided such member at the\ntime of his entrance into the armed forces was in the service of the\ncounty of Nassau.\n i. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a member, who does not\nretire pursuant to the provisions of this section, from utilizing\nservice which is creditable service pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection for service credit pursuant to the provisions of any other plan\nof this article to which such member is subject.\n j. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding\nany other provision in this article to the contrary.\n