Section 89-V. Retirement of deputy sheriffs-civil in Rockland county

a. A
  member  employed in Rockland county shall be eligible to retire pursuant
  to the provisions of section eighty-nine-p of this article if the county
  of  Rockland  elects  to  make  the   benefits   provided   in   section
  eighty-nine-p  of  this article available to the sheriff, undersheriffs,
  deputy sheriffs and correction officers of such county and if he or  she
  is  a  deputy sheriff-civil of such county. Such eligibility shall be an
  alternative to the eligibility provisions available under any other plan
  of this article to which such member is subject.
    b. The term "creditable service" shall include any  and  all  services
  performed  as  a  deputy  sheriff-civil  of  Rockland  county  and other
  creditable service as  defined  in  subdivisions  d  and  e  of  section
  eighty-nine-p of this article.
    c.  Rockland  county  is authorized to adopt a resolution on or before
  December thirty-first, two thousand one to extend the provisions of this
  section to those members defined in subdivision a  of  this  section.  A
  certified copy of such resolution must be filed with the comptroller and
  may contain an election that any past service cost be paid over either a
  five-year  or  ten-year  period. Such resolution shall be accompanied by
  the affidavit of the chief executive officer of Rockland county that the
  county has received an estimate from the retirement system of  the  cost
  of the benefit provided by this section.
    d.  The  sheriff 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 deputy sheriffs-civil
  of Rockland county.
    e. Unless otherwise indicated  in  this  section,  the  provisions  of
  section eighty-nine-p of this article shall be controlling.
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