Section 89-R. Retirement of county park police officers in Suffolk county

a.   Any member who is employed by  Suffolk  county  as  a  park  police
  officer  shall  be eligible to retire pursuant to the provisions of this
  section.  Such eligibility shall be an alternative  to  the  eligibility
  provisions  available under any other plan of this article to which such
  member  is  subject.  The  parks  commissioner  of  the  Suffolk  county
  department  of  parks shall certify to the comptroller, periodically and
  at such intervals of time as may be required of him or her and  in  such
  fashion  as  may be prescribed, the identity of the eligible park police
  officers in his or her employ.
    b. Such member shall be entitled to  retire  upon  the  completion  of
  twenty-five  years  of total creditable service by filing an application
  therefor in the manner provided for in section seventy of this article.
    c. Upon completion of twenty-five  years  of  such  service  and  upon
  retirement,  each  such  member  shall receive a pension which, together
  with an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  his  or  her
  accumulated  contributions  at  the time of his or her retirement and an
  additional  pension  which  is   the   actuarial   equivalent   of   the
  reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay  to  which  he  or  she may then be
  entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or  her  with  a  retirement
  allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.
    d.  As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any and
  all services performed as a park police officer of  the  Suffolk  county
  department of parks, and any and all services performed as a park ranger
  of the Suffolk county department of parks.
    e. Credit for service as a member or officer of the state police or as
  a paid fireman, policeman or officer of any organized fire department or
  police  force  or  department  of  any county, city, village, town, fire
  district or police district, or as a criminal investigator in the office
  of a district attorney, provided that service as such investigator shall
  have been rendered prior to January first, nineteen  hundred  sixty  and
  that  credit  therefor shall not exceed five years, shall also be deemed
  to be creditable service and shall be included  in  computing  years  of
  total  service  for  retirement  pursuant to this section, provided such
  service was performed by the member while contributing to the retirement
  system pursuant to the provisions of this article or  article  eight  of
  this chapter.
    f.  A  member contributing on the basis of this section at the time of
  retirement, shall retire after the completion of  twenty-five  years  of
  total  creditable service. Application therefor may be filed in a manner
  similar to that provided  in  section  seventy  of  this  article.  Upon
  completion  of  twenty-five  years  of such service and upon retirement,
  each such member shall receive a pension which, together with an annuity
  which shall be the  actuarial  equivalent  of  his  or  her  accumulated
  contributions  at  the  time  of his or her retirement and an additional
  pension    which    is    the    actuarial     equivalent     of     the
  reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay  to  which  he  or  she  may then be
  entitled shall be sufficient to provide him or  her  with  a  retirement
  allowance equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.
    g.  In  computing  the  twenty-five years of total service of a member
  pursuant to this section full credit shall be given and  full  allowance
  shall  be made for service of such member in time of war after World War
  I as defined in section two of this chapter, provided such member at the
  time of his or her entrance into the armed forces was in the service  of
  the county of Suffolk.
    h. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a member, who does not
  retire  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  section, from utilizing
  service which is creditable service pursuant to the provisions  of  this

  section  for service credit pursuant to the provisions of any other plan
  of this article to which such member is subject.
    i. The provisions of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding
  any other provision in this article to the contrary.