§ 501. Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this\narticle shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is\nplainly required by the context: 1. "Retirement system" shall mean the\nNew York state teachers' retirement system provided for in section five\nhundred two of this article.\n 2. "Retirement board" shall mean the retirement board provided by\nsection five hundred four of this article.\n 3. "Employer" shall mean the state of New York, the city, the village,\nschool district board or trustee, or other agency of and within the\nstate by which a teacher is paid.\n 4. "Teacher" shall mean any regular teacher, special teacher,\nincluding any school librarian or physical training teacher, principal,\nvice-principal, supervisor, supervisory principal, director,\nsuperintendent, city superintendent, assistant city superintendent,\ndistrict superintendent and other member of the teaching or professional\nstaff of any class, public school, vocational school, truant reformatory\nschool or parental school, and of any or all classes of schools within\nthe state of New York, including schools on the Indian reservation,\nconducted under the order and superintendence of and wholly or partly at\nthe expense of the New York state education department or of a duly\nelected board of education, board of school directors or board of\ntrustees of the state or of any city or school district thereof,\nprovided that no person shall be deemed a teacher within the meaning of\nthis article who is not so employed for full time outside vacation\nperiods. The word, "teacher," shall also include any person employed in\nthe state education department who at the time he entered such\nemployment, or within one year prior thereto, was a teacher within the\nforegoing definition, or who was engaged in such department in the\nperformance of duties pertaining to instructional services prior to\nSeptember first, nineteen hundred eighty-six or who provides\ninstructional services at the New York state school for the blind or the\nNew York state school for the deaf, but shall not include a person who\nis a teacher within the foregoing definition, and who elects to become a\nmember of the New York state employees' retirement system pursuant to\nparagraph five of subdivision c of section forty of the retirement and\nsocial security law upon his entry, on or after April first, nineteen\nhundred fifty, into his employment as such a teacher in a state-operated\ninstitution or community college under the jurisdiction of the board of\ntrustees of the state university, or who is a teacher within the\nforegoing definition, and who elects to become a member of the New York\ncity employees' retirement system, upon his entry, on or after April\nfirst, nineteen hundred fifty-six, into his employment as such a teacher\nin a community college operated by the city of New York, or who is a\nteacher within the foregoing definition, and who elects the optional\nretirement program established either by article eight-b or by article\nthree, part V of this chapter. In all cases of doubt, the retirement\nboard shall determine whether any person is a teacher as defined in this\narticle.\n 5. "Present teacher" shall mean any teacher who was a teacher on or\nbefore the first day of August, nineteen hundred twenty-one, whose\nmembership in the retirement system created by this article has been\ncontinuous and\n a. who became a member of the retirement system created by this act on\nor before the first day of May, nineteen hundred twenty-four, provided\nthat any such teacher becoming a member after the establishment of the\nsystem pay to the system on entrance the amount he would have\ncontributed had he become a member as of the date of establishment; or\n b. who was a member of a local district pension system on or before\nthe first day of August, nineteen hundred twenty-one, who continued\nthereafter to be a member until he, with the membership of such
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