Section 89-S. Retirement of members who serve as peace officers in the Suffolk county probation department  


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  • a. Any member who serves as a peace
      officer and is employed in the Suffolk county probation department 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  chief  executive  officer of the Suffolk county probation
      department shall certify to the comptroller, periodically  and  at  such
      intervals  of  time as may be required of him and in such fashion as may
      be prescribed, the identity  of  the  eligible  peace  officers  in  his
      employ.
        b.  A  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
      accumulated  contributions  at  the  time  of  his  retirement  and   an
      additional   pension   which   is   the   actuarial  equivalent  of  the
      reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay to which he may  then  be  entitled
      shall  be sufficient to provide him with a retirement allowance equal to
      one-half of his final average salary.
        d. As used in this section "creditable service" shall include any  and
      all  services  performed  as  a  peace  officer, a correction officer as
      defined in section eighty-nine-f of this chapter,  a  probation  officer
      trainee in the Suffolk county probation department.
        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, shall also be deemed to  be  creditable  service
      and shall be included in computing years of total service for retirement
      pursuant to this section.
        f.  A  member contributing on the basis of this section at the time of
      retirement may 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 accumulated contributions
      at  the  time  of  his retirement and an additional pension which is the
      actuarial  equivalent  of  the  reserved-for-increased-take-home-pay  to
      which  he may then be entitled shall be sufficient to provide him with a
      retirement allowance equal to one-half of his 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  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.
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