Section 162. Retired employees and certain widows and dependents eligible for supplemental pensions

1. State retired employees and state retired
  teachers shall be entitled to receive, one month after such  retirement,
  monthly supplemental pension payments as provided in this article.
    2.  Any  municipality  is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and
  amend a  local  law,  ordinance  or  resolution  providing  for  monthly
  supplemental  pension  payments  both to local retired employees thereof
  and local retired teachers of a school  district  located  therein.  Any
  county,  city,  town  or  village  is hereby authorized and empowered to
  adopt and amend local laws, ordinances and  resolutions,  effective  for
  specified  periods  of  not  to  exceed  three  years  each,  subject to
  extension or renewal for specified periods of not to exceed three  years
  each,  to  provide for monthly supplemental pension payments for widows,
  dependent children or dependent parents of deceased members or  deceased
  retired  members  of  the uniformed force of a police department or fire
  department. Any such local law, ordinance or resolution shall  prescribe
  equitable  methods for providing supplemental pensions and computing the
  amounts thereof and may contain provisions necessary and appropriate for
  proper administration, including a provision  requiring  the  filing  of
  verified applications for such payments.
    3.  The  monthly supplemental pensions paid to local retired employees
  shall not exceed the monthly supplemental pensions paid to state retired
  employees pursuant to this article. The  monthly  supplemental  pensions
  paid to local retired teachers shall not exceed the monthly supplemental
  pensions  paid  to  state retired teachers pursuant to this article. The
  total of all the annual retirement allowances or pension payments to the
  widow, dependent children and dependent parents of a deceased member  or
  deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police department or
  a  fire  department shall not be increased by more than an amount which,
  when added to all annual  retirement  allowances  and  pension  payments
  being  made  to  all  of  such  beneficiaries, and the annual retirement
  allowances or pension payments which could have been  made  to  them  in
  lieu of any lump sum settlement that was made instead, on account of the
  death  of  any  such policeman or fireman, by such county, city, town or
  village, or by a retirement or pension system or plan on behalf  of  the
  county,  city,  town  or  village,  shall  not  exceed a total of twelve
  hundred dollars per annum.
    4. As used herein the following terms shall include:
    (a) "Widow". Only the widow, who has  not  remarried,  of  a  deceased
  member  or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police or
  fire department;
    (b) "Dependent children".  Only children under the age of eighteen  of
  a deceased member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a
  police or fire department;
    (c) "Dependent parents". Only a father or mother, or both collectively
  if both are living, of the deceased member or deceased retired member of
  the  uniformed  force  of  a  police  or  fire department, where neither
  dependent widow nor dependent children under age eighteen  survive  such
  member or retired member.