§ 208-f. Special accidental death benefit. a. Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law, the special accidental death benefit provided by\nthis section shall be paid to the widow or widower or the deceased\nmember's children under the age of eighteen, or, if a student under the\nage of twenty-three, if the widow or widower has died, or to the\ndeceased member's parents if the member has no widow, widower, children\nunder the age of eighteen, or a student under the age of twenty-three,\nof: (i) a deceased member of a pension or retirement system of a police\ndepartment or paid fire department of a city, town or village; (ii) a\ndeceased paid member of the police force of the police department of the\nNew York city transit authority; (iii) a deceased paid member of the\npolice force of the police department of the New York city housing\nauthority; (iv) a deceased paid member of the uniformed correction force\nof the New York city department of correction; (v) a deceased paid\nuniformed member of a county sheriff's department (outside the city of\nNew York); (vi) a deceased employee of the city of New York or the New\nYork city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties are\nthose of 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); (vii) a\ndeceased paid bridge and tunnel member of the New York city employees'\nretirement system; (viii) a deceased paid member of the uniformed force\nof the New York city department of sanitation; or (ix) a deceased paid\ndeputy sheriff member of the New York city sheriff's department,\nproviding the widow or widower is ineligible to receive benefits\npursuant to section three hundred sixty-one-a of the retirement and\nsocial security law as amended by chapter seven hundred thirty-three of\nthe laws of nineteen hundred ninety and the deceased member:\n 1. Died before the effective date of his or her retirement, as the\nnatural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance\nof duty in the service upon which his membership was based, and\n 2. Did not cause such accident by his or her own willful negligence,\nand\n 3. At the time of such accident was actually a member of: (i) a\npension or retirement system of a police department or paid fire\ndepartment of a city, town or village; (ii) a pension or retirement\nsystem covering the police force of the police department of the New\nYork city transit authority; (iii) a pension or retirement system\ncovering the police force of the police department of the New York city\nhousing authority; (iv) a pension or retirement system covering the\nuniformed correction force of the New York city department of\ncorrection; (v) a pension or retirement system covering uniformed\nmembers of a county sheriff's department (outside the city of New York);\n(vi) a pension or retirement system covering employees of the city of\nNew York, or the New York city health and hospitals corporation in a\ntitle whose duties are those of an emergency medical technician or\nadvanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are defined in\nsection three thousand one of the public health law), or in a title\nwhose duties require the supervision of employees 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); (vii) a pension or retirement system covering\npaid bridge and tunnel members of the New York city employees'\nretirement system; (viii) a pension or retirement system covering paid\nmembers of the uniformed force of the New York city department of\nsani
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