N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 63-C – Disability benefits
* § 63-c. Disability benefits. A county may elect to make the benefits provided herein available to the sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriffs who are engaged directly in criminal law enforcement activities, and correction officers who are in the employ of the county. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any general or special law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in the disability or death to a member covered by this section, presently employed and who shall have sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into service as a member covered by this section, which examination failed to disclose evidence of any disease or other impairment of the heart, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary can be proved by competent evidence.
Terms Used In N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 63-C
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- member: shall include each person who during the qualifying period was in the employment of a public employer which then participated for such employees in a public retirement system in this state, irrespective of whether the person was a participant in such system at that time, provided that the person has become a participant in such retirement system and has purchased service credit for a period of time that includes some or all of the qualifying period in accordance with provisions of law applicable to such purchase of service credit. See N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 2
* NB Repealed July 1, 2001. § 480 of Retirement and Social Security Law (as amended by ch. 44/2001 § 2) extends disability benefits implemented by former § 63-c.