Section 207-M. Salary increases for heads of police departments of municipalities, districts or authorities

1.    Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any general, special or local law or administrative code
  to the contrary, and except in  police  departments  which  employ  five
  hundred  seventy-five or more permanent sworn police personnel, whenever
  the base salary or other compensation of the permanent full-time  police
  officer  who  is  a  member of a negotiating unit and who is the highest
  ranking subordinate to the head of the police department in  such  unit,
  is increased, the salary, as defined in subdivision two of this section,
  of  the  permanent  full-time  head  of  the  police department shall be
  increased by at least the same dollar amount of the base salary increase
  received  by  such  next  subordinate  police  officer,  and  the  other
  compensation,  as  defined  in  subdivision  two of this section, of the
  permanent full-time head of the police department shall be increased  to
  the  same  extent and with the same conditions as the other compensation
  received by the next subordinate police officer in the event  that  such
  subordinate  officer's  other compensation is increased.  The provisions
  of this section shall not apply to any head of a police  department  who
  is  a  member  of  a collective negotiating unit established pursuant to
  article fourteen of the civil service law.
    2. For the purposes of this section, salary shall mean fixed  periodic
  compensation  payable  by  an  employer  to  or  for  the account of the
  employee  for  personal  services  rendered  by  such  employee;   other
  compensation  shall  mean all other forms of benefits which are credited
  to employees as a term of employment, which shall specifically  include,
  but not be limited to, employer contribution to or payments of insurance
  or  welfare  benefits  and  employer contributions to pension or annuity
  funds.   Overtime, holiday and  shift  differential  pay  shall  not  be
  considered  as  salary  or  other  compensation  unless  by  resolution,
  ordinance, special or local law the municipality, district or  authority
  elects  to  include  these  items  of compensation within the employment
  benefit  package  of  the  permanent  full-time  head  of   the   police
  department.