New York Laws
Title 8 - General Provisions Relating to Retirement; Retirement Plans Applicable to Members Generally
75-H - Career Retirement Plan for State Employees; New Plan.

(1) Such member renders five or more years of service in the employ of
the state after such entry or reentry, or
(2) Immediately prior to service with the state, service was rendered
while a member of a retirement system maintained by the state or a
municipality thereof, operating on a sound actuarial basis and subject
to the supervision of the department of financial services of this
state, in a plan which provides service retirement benefits equal or
superior to those provided under this section and at the date of his
retirement such member would have been eligible for such benefits had he
not separated from service with such employer.
d. A member eligible for a vested retirement allowance pursuant to the
provisions of section seventy-six of this chapter who separates from the
employ of the state on or after April first, nineteen hundred seventy
with twenty or more years of total service, and who would have been
eligible to have his retirement allowance computed pursuant to the
provisions of this section had he at the time of separation attained age
fifty-five, shall at the time he becomes eligible to receive the vested
retirement allowance be entitled to have such allowance computed in the
manner prescribed by this section.

e. A member in the employ of the state on March thirty-first, nineteen
hundred seventy shall be entitled to have his retirement allowance
computed on the basis of the provisions of section seventy-five-f of
this chapter if a greater benefit would have been provided under such
provisions.
f. The benefits hereinabove provided shall be payable to a member,
including a member covered by the provisions of section eighty-nine of
this article who is not in the negotiating unit designated as the
security services unit and established pursuant to article fourteen of
the civil service law, unless such member would otherwise be entitled to
a greater benefit under such other provisions of this article, in which
event such greater benefit shall be payable.
g. The provisions of this section shall apply to members retiring or
separating in vested status from state service on or after April first,
nineteen hundred seventy.