New York Laws
Title 8 - Death Benefits and Disability Retirement
363-DD - Impairments of Health; Presumption.

§ 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.

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