Section 207-D. Additional retirement benefits for certain policemen in cities and certain villages  


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  • 1. As used in this section:    a. "Final compensation" means the average annual salary or  wages  for
      services  as  a  policeman earned from the date of his minimum period to
      the date of his retirement.
        b. "Policeman" means a paid officer or member of the  uniformed  force
      of  the  police department of a city or of any village which has elected
      to make the benefits provided under this section available to  the  paid
      officers or members of its police department or force.
        c.  "Minimum  period"  means  a  fixed number of years of service as a
      policeman 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 policeman 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.