Section 13-644. Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
    1.  The  term  "city  retired  employee"  shall  mean a person who was
  retired prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty and who receives, as
  a result of such retirement, a retirement allowance or pension from  any
  retirement  or  pension  system  or  plan of the city of New York, which
  retirement allowance or pension, computed without optional modification,
  is or would be twelve hundred dollars per annum or less, and who, unless
  retired for disability:
    (a) is sixty years of age or over and
    (b) has not had less than fifteen  years  of  allowable  and  credited
  service on which his or her retirement allowance or pension is based,
    (c) provided, however, that
    (1)  in  the  case  of  such  a  person  meeting such requirements who
  attained age sixty-five before April first, nineteen hundred  fifty-six,
  or  who  attains  such age on or after such date, the maximum retirement
  allowance or pension, computed without optional modification, shall  for
  the  purposes hereof be thirteen hundred two dollars per annum beginning
  April first, nineteen hundred  fifty-six  or  the  first  of  the  month
  following the date such person attains the age of sixty-five years;
    (2)  in  the  case  of  a  female person meeting such requirements who
  attained age sixty-two before April first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven,
  or who attains such age on or after such date,  the  maximum  retirement
  allowance  or pension, computed without optional modification, shall for
  the purposes hereof be thirteen hundred two dollars per annum  beginning
  April  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven  or the first of the month
  following the date such person attains the age of sixty-two years;
    (3) in the case of a person retired for disability, either  before  or
  after  attaining  age  fifty,  who attained such age before April first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-seven, or who attains such age on or  after  such
  date,  the  maximum  retirement  allowance  or pension, computed without
  optional modification, shall for the purposes hereof be thirteen hundred
  two  dollars  per  annum  beginning  April   first,   nineteen   hundred
  fifty-seven  or  the  first  of the month following the date such person
  attains the age of fifty years.