Section 207-B. Additional retirement benefits for certain firemen in cities  


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  • 1. As used in this section:
        a.  "Final  compensation" means the average annual salary or wages for
      services as a fireman earned from the date of his minimum period to  the
      date of his retirement.
        b.  "Fireman" means a paid officer or member of the uniformed force of
      the fire department of a city.
        c. "Minimum period" means a fixed number of  years  of  service  as  a
      fireman  specified  in  a  plan  or option elected by him as a necessary
      prerequisite for a pension or retirement allowance upon retirement  from
      such service.
        2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of any general, special or local
      law, charter or administrative code and in lieu  of  any  lesser  amount
      thereby  prescribed,  in  the event a fireman has served as such for his
      minimum period and  thereafter  continues  in  such  service,  upon  his
      subsequent  retirement for any cause whatsoever, there shall be added to
      the amount of the annual pension or retirement allowance to which he was
      entitled upon such retirement, an additional amount computed at the rate
      of one-sixtieth  of  his  final  compensation  for  each  year  of  such
      additional service.
        3.  The  provisions  of this section shall not apply to members of the
      New York state policemen's and firemen's retirement system.