Section 13-392. 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  fire  officers'  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.  "Firefighter".  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  a
  firefighter and was not a fire officer.
    2. "Association". The uniformed fire officers' association of the fire
  department, 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 13-394 of
  this chapter.
    5. "Fire officer". (a) Any member of the uniformed force of  the  fire
  department  holding the position of lieutenant or any position of higher
  rank in such force and (b) any pilot,  marine  engineer  (uniformed)  or
  assistant  marine  engineer  (uniformed) who is a member of pension fund
  subchapter two or pension fund subchapter one  and  (c)  any  member  of
  either  such  pension  fund  holding  a  position  in  the  fire marshal
  occupational group above the rank of fire marshal (uniformed).
    6. "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
  fire officer.
    7.  "Variable  supplement". Any sum authorized to be paid to a pension
  fund beneficiary pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
    8. "Pension fund subchapter two". The New York fire department pension
  fund subchapter two maintained pursuant to  subchapter  two  of  chapter
  three of this title.
    9. "Pension fund subchapter one". The New York fire department pension
  fund  maintained  pursuant  to  subchapter  one of chapter three of this
  title.