New York Laws
Article 4 - Negligence and Malfeasance of Public Officers; Taxpayers' Remedies
50-I - Presentation of Tort Claims; Commencement of Actions.

(b) For the purposes of this subdivision:
(1) "participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup
operations" means any employee or volunteer that:
(i) participated in the rescue, recovery or cleanup operations at the
World Trade Center site; or
(ii) worked at the Fresh Kills Land Fill in the city of New York after
September eleventh, two thousand one; or
(iii) worked at the New York city morgue or the temporary morgue on
pier locations on the west side of Manhattan after September eleventh,
two thousand one; or
(iv) worked on the barges between the west side of Manhattan and the
Fresh Kills Land Fill in the city of New York after September eleventh,
two thousand one.
(2) "World Trade Center site" means anywhere below a line starting
from the Hudson River and Canal Street; east on Canal Street to Pike

Street; south on Pike Street to the East River; and extending to the
lower tip of Manhattan.
5. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, this section
shall not apply to any claim made against a city, county, town, village,
fire district or school district for physical, psychological, or other
injury or condition suffered as a result of conduct which would
constitute a sexual offense as defined in article one hundred thirty of
the penal law committed against a child less than eighteen years of age,
incest as defined in section 255.27, 255.26 or 255.25 of the penal law
committed against a child less than eighteen years of age, or the use of
a child in a sexual performance as defined in section 263.05 of the
penal law committed against a child less than eighteen years of age.