§ 85-c. Additional credits allowed the children and siblings of\nemergency medical technicians and paramedics killed in the line of duty.\n1. Definitions. (a) As used in this section, "killed in the line of\nduty" shall mean having died in the performance of duty as the natural\nand proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September\neleventh, two thousand one or as the natural and proximate result of\nparticipation in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to\nsuch attack.\n (b) As used in this section "emergency medical technician" shall mean\na person who was employed by the city of New York or by the New York\ncity health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties are those\nof an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical\ntechnician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand one of\nthe public health law), or in a title whose duties require the\nsupervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical\ntechnician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are\ndefined in section three thousand one of the public health law).\n 2. Additional credit authorized. Additional credits shall be allowed\nchildren and siblings of emergency medical technicians killed in the\nline of duty in competitive examinations for original appointment.\n (a) On all eligible lists resulting from competitive examinations, the\nnames of eligible persons shall be entered in the order of their\nrespective final earned ratings on examinations, with the name of the\neligible person with the highest final earned ratings at the head of\nsuch list; provided, however, that for the purpose of determining final\nearned ratings, children and siblings of emergency medical technicians\nkilled in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional\nten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the\nsame municipality in which his or her parent or sibling has served.\n (b) Such additional credit shall be added to the final earned rating\nof such child or sibling, as the case may be, after he or she has\nqualified in the competitive examination and shall be granted only at\nthe time of establishment of the resulting eligible list.\n 3. Application for additional credit; proof of eligibility;\nestablishment of eligible list. Any candidate, believing himself or\nherself entitled to additional credit in a competitive examination as\nprovided in this section, may make application for such additional\ncredit at any time between the date of his or her application for\nexamination and the date of the establishment of the resulting eligible\nlist. Such candidates shall be allowed a period of not less than two\nmonths from the date of the filing of his or her application for\nexamination in which to establish by appropriate documentary proof his\nor her eligibility to receive additional credit under this section. At\nany time after two months have elapsed since the final date for filing\napplications for a competitive examination for original appointment, the\neligible list resulting from such examination may be established,\nnotwithstanding the fact that a child or sibling who has applied for\nadditional credit has failed to establish his or her eligibility to\nreceive such additional credit. A candidate who fails to establish, by\nappropriate documentary proof, his or her eligibility to receive\nadditional credit by the time an eligible list is established shall not\nthereafter be granted additional credit on such eligible list.\n 4. Use of additional credit. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this\nsubdivision, no person who has received a permanent original appointment\nin the civil service of the state or of any city or civil division\nthereof from an eligible list on which he or she was allowed the\nadditional credit granted by this section as a child or sibling, shall\nthereafter be entitled to any additional credit under this section as a\nchild
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