Section 93. Payment of certain insurance premiums for officers and employees of municipal corporations and agencies or instrumentalities thereof

1.  The fiscal or disbursing  officer  of  every  municipal  corporation  is
  hereby  authorized  to  deduct from the wage or salary of any officer or
  employee of the municipality who is insured under  any  group  or  group
  plan  of  life,  group  accident  or  group health insurance or who is a
  member of a corporation existing by virtue of article forty-three of the
  insurance law, such amounts for the payment of the premium  or  premiums
  or  payments  thereon,  as  such  officer  or  employee may specify in a
  writing filed with the said fiscal or disbursing officer and transmit to
  the insurer the sum so deducted. Any such written authorization  may  be
  withdrawn  by such officer or employee or member at any time upon filing
  written notice of such withdrawal with the fiscal or disbursing officer.
  The provisions of this section shall apply to and  be  effective  within
  every  city, county, town, village, school district and organized public
  district in the state.
    2. A  municipal  corporation,  including  a  fire  district,  or  town
  improvement district governed by a separate board of commissioners, if a
  group plan of life insurance provides that the employer shall contribute
  a share of the cost of such insurance for its officers and employees, or
  for  the  officers or employees of an agency or instrumentality thereof,
  is authorized to appropriate a sum required to be paid under  such  plan
  by the municipal corporation as employer. The sum to be paid by it under
  such  plan,  in  the discretion of the municipal corporation, may be any
  percentage of the total cost,  including  the  whole  thereof.  For  the
  purposes  of this section, the term employee shall include the volunteer
  firemen  of  the   municipality   or   fire   district   or   employees,
  commissioners,  or officers of a town improvement district governed by a
  separate board of commissioners.