New York Laws
Title 3 - Establishment, Management, Supervision and Financing
319 - Filing of Documents With the Retirement System.

ยง 319. Filing of documents with the retirement system. Whenever a
statute requires that a document be filed with the state comptroller, as
administrative head of the New York state and local police and fire
retirement system, within a prescribed period of time or by a specified
date, and such document has been mailed to the comptroller or the
retirement system by United States Postal Service certified mail, return
receipt requested, the document shall be deemed filed on the date of
mailing. Notwithstanding this provision, no document shall be deemed
filed on the date of mailing unless it is actually received by the
retirement system as a result of such mailing.