New York Laws
Title 10 - Special Retirement Plans Applicable to Specified Classes of Members
383-C - Optional Retirement of Members Holding the Position of Forest Ranger in the Service of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

(i) be payable only if such member has attained age sixty at the time
of retirement and has not completed twenty-five years of service as a
forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental
conservation for which he receives credit under this article, and
(ii) not increase the total allowance to more than he would have
received had his total service been rendered as a forest ranger in the
service of the department of environmental conservation.
For the purpose only of determining the amount of the pension provided
herein, the annuity shall be computed as it would be:
(A) if not reduced by the actuarial equivalent of any outstanding
loan, and
(B) if not increased by the actuarial equivalent of any additional
contributions, and
(C) if not reduced by reason of the member's election to decrease his
annuity contributions to the retirement systems in order to apply the
amount of such reduction in payment of his contributions for old-age and
survivors insurance coverage.
g. The increased pensions to a forest ranger in the service of the
department of environmental conservation, as provided by this section,
shall be paid from additional contributions made by the state on account
of such members. The actuary of the retirement system shall compute the
additional contribution of each member who elects to receive the special
benefits provided under this section. Such additional contributions
shall be computed on the basis of contributions during the prospective
service of such member which will cover the liability of the retirement
system for such extra pensions. Upon approval by the comptroller, such
additional contributions shall be certified by him to the commissioner
of environmental conservation. The amount thereof shall be included in
the annual appropriation of the state for the department of
environmental conservation. Such amount shall be paid on the warrant of
the comptroller to the pension accumulation fund of the retirement
system.
h. In computing the twenty-five years of total creditable service of a
forest ranger in the service of the department of environmental
conservation, full credit shall be given and full allowance shall be
made for service of such member in time of war and service with the
American expeditionary forces subsequent to November eleventh, nineteen

hundred eighteen, and prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred nineteen
of honorably discharged officers, soldiers, sailors, marines and army
nurses, who were actual residents of the state at the time of their
entry into the military service of the United States, and the service of
members of the national guard in the military service of the United
States of America pursuant to the call of the president or Mexican
border service.
i. The provision of this section shall be controlling notwithstanding
any provision in this article to the contrary.
j. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision d, e, or i of this
section to the contrary, a member who is in the collective negotiating
units designated as the security services unit or security supervisors
unit or designated management confidential employees and established
pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law and who has
elected or is required to contribute in accordance with this section
may, on or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight,
elect to come under the provisions of section three hundred
seventy-five-h of this article. Such election shall be duly executed and
filed with the comptroller.
k. Commencing with the effective date of this section and in a manner
determined by the head of the retirement system, the employer shall make
contributions to the retirement system to fund the past service
liability cost associated with the implementation of this section as
those costs are calculated by the retirement system actuary. Such
contributions may be made, at the election of the employer, in level
dollar installments over a ten year period.