Section 13-268. Definitions

As used in this subchapter, the following words
  and phrases shall  have  the  following  meanings,  unless  a  different
  meaning is plainly required by the context:
    1.   "Variable   supplements  fund".  The  police  officer's  variable
  supplements fund established by this subchapter.
    1-a. "Minimum period". The minimum period of credited service which  a
  member  of  pension fund, subchapter one or pension fund, subchapter two
  is required by law to perform in order to  be  eligible  to  retire  for
  service with immediate payability of retirement allowance.
    1-b.  "Police officer". A member of either pension fund referred to in
  subdivision one-a of this section who, at the  time  of  retirement  for
  service by reason of fulfillment of the minimum period, was not a police
  superior  officer  as  defined  in subdivision four of section 13-278 of
  subchapter four of this chapter.
    2. "Association". The patrolmen's benevolent association of  the  city
  of New York.
    3.  "Fiscal  year". Any year commencing with the first day of July and
  ending with the thirtieth day of June next following.
    4. "Board". The board of trustees provided for in  section  13-270  of
  this subchapter.
    5.  "Pension  fund  beneficiary". Any person who receives a retirement
  allowance by reason of  having  retired,  on  or  after  October  first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-eight,  for  service (with credit for twenty or
  more years of service creditable toward the minimum period) as a  member
  of pension fund, subchapter one or pension fund, subchapter two and as a
  police officer.
    6.  "Variable  supplement". Any sum authorized to be paid to a pension
  fund beneficiary pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
    7. "Pension fund, subchapter one".  The  New  York  police  department
  pension  fund  maintained  pursuant  to subchapter one of chapter two of
  this title.
    8. "Pension fund, subchapter two".  The  New  York  police  department
  pension  fund  maintained  pursuant  to subchapter two of chapter two of
  this title.