Section 207-P. Performance of duty disability retirement; police and fire department

Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  this  chapter  or  administrative  code  to  the  contrary,  any  paid  member  of  a  fire
  department and/or a paid police department, in a city with a  population
  of  one  million  or more who successfully passed a physical examination
  upon entry into the service of such department who contracts HIV  (where
  the  employee  may have been exposed to a bodily fluid of a person under
  his  or  her  care  or  treatment,  or  while  the  employee   examined,
  transported,  rescued  or otherwise had contact with such person, in the
  performance of his or her duties), tuberculosis or  hepatitis,  will  be
  presumed  to  have  contracted  such  disease  as a natural or proximate
  result of an accidental injury received in the performance and discharge
  of his or her duties  and  not  as  a  result  of  his  or  her  willful
  negligence, unless the contrary be provided by competent evidence.