Section 207-N. Performance of duty disability retirement  


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  • Notwithstanding
      the provisions of any general, special or local  law  or  administrative
      code  to  the  contrary,  but  except  for  the purposes of the workers'
      compensation law and the labor law, a paid member of the uniformed force
      of a paid correction department, where such paid member  is  drawn  from
      competitive  civil  service  lists,  who  successfully passed a physical
      examination on entry into the service of such department, who  contracts
      HIV  (where  there may have been exposure to a bodily fluid of an inmate
      or any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction  of  the
      department of correction, or the department of health, or any person who
      has  been  committed  to  such institution by any court as a natural and
      proximate result of an act of any inmate or person described above, that
      may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from
      an inmate or person described above  to  the  member),  tuberculosis  or
      hepatitis  will  be  presumed  to  have  contracted  such disease in the
      performance or discharge of his or her duties, unless  the  contrary  be
      proved by competent evidence.