Section 210. Definitions

As used in this article:
    a.  The  term  "retired person" means a retired member of a retirement
  system or pension plan administered by the state or any of its political
  subdivisions who is receiving a  retirement  allowance  for  other  than
  physical disability.
    b. The term "retirement allowance" means the total amount payable to a
  retired person, whether in the form of pension or annuity, or both, from
  a  retirement system or systems or pension plan or plans administered by
  the state or any of its political subdivisions.
    c. The term "supplemental retirement payment" means  the  supplemental
  pension payment or supplemental retirement allowance payable pursuant to
  article  four  or  article  six  of this chapter, or section B20-44.1 or
  chapter forty-nine, title D, of the administrative code of the  city  of
  New  York,  or  any  other  state  or  local  law  providing for similar
  supplemental pension payments or supplemental retirement allowances.
    d. The term "final salary" means the maximum  salary  or  compensation
  which  the  retired  person currently would be receiving in the position
  from which he was last retired if he had not retired. If  such  position
  has  been  abolished, the appropriate authority or officer prescribed in
  paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred eleven  of  this
  chapter  shall  determine,  on  the  basis of the salary or compensation
  currently paid to persons in similar  or  comparable  positions  by  the
  employer  from  whose  service  such  retired  person  last retired, the
  maximum amount of salary  or  compensation  which  such  retired  person
  currently would be receiving in such position.
    e.  The  term  "public  service" means the service of the state or any
  political division  thereof,  including  a  special  district,  district
  corporation,  school district, board of cooperative educational services
  or county vocational education and extension board, or the service of  a
  public benefit corporation or public authority created by or pursuant to
  laws  of  the  state  of  New  York,  or  the  service  of any agency or
  organization  which  contributes  as  a  participating  employer  in   a
  retirement  system  or  pension plan administered by the state or any of
  its political subdivisions.
    f.  The  term  "former  employer"  means  the  state  or  a  political
  subdivision,  public  corporation, school district, board of cooperative
  educational services, county vocational education and  extension  board,
  or  an  agency  or  organization  which  contributes  as a participating
  employer in a retirement system or  pension  plan  administered  by  the
  state  or  any of its civil divisions, which directly paid the salary or
  compensation of a retired person  at  any  time  during  the  two  years
  immediately  preceding  his  retirement and who paid the salary on which
  the retiree's retirement allowance is based.