Section 363-DD. Impairments of health; presumption

Notwithstanding any
  provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law to the
  contrary, any police officer  or  firefighter  who  is  covered  by  the
  provisions  of  section  three hundred sixty-three of this title and who
  contracts HIV, tuberculosis or hepatitis after contact with  members  of
  the  public  (where  there  may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid)
  will be presumed to have contracted such disease in the  performance  or
  discharge of his or her duties as the natural and proximate result of an
  accident  and  to  be disabled from the performance of his or her duties
  unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.