§ 92-a. Medical, surgical and hospital services or insurance for\nofficers, employees and retired officers and employees of public\ncorporations and their families. 1. As used in this section, the term\n"public corporation" shall mean a municipal corporation, a district\ncorporation, a school district, a consolidated health district and a\ncounty or town special district or a joint special district, governed by\na separate board of commissioners. Officers, employees and retired\nofficers and employees of a county or town special district which is not\ngoverned by a separate board of commissioners shall be deemed to be\ncounty or town officers and employees, or retired officers and\nemployees, respectively.\n 1-a. As used in this section the term "retired officer" shall include\nany former school board member with twenty years or more service in such\nposition. The total cost of participation by such former school board\nmembers and their families shall be borne by such former members.\n 2. A public corporation may contract with a non-profit membership\ncorporation, organized under article forty-three of the insurance law\nand approved by the superintendent of financial services and the state\nboard of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to do\nbusiness in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and\nsurgical services and hospital service as defined in such article\nforty-three, or medical and surgical and hospital insurance to persons\nwho contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance\ncompany, or who subscribe to a plan or plans, as hereinafter provided.\nAny such contract entered into by a public corporation shall permit any\nofficer or employee or group of officers or employees of an agency or\ndepartment of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a plan\nor plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for,\nor medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such officers\nor employees and their families. Any such contract entered into by a\npublic corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and\nsubject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements as\nmay be fixed by such board or body, permit any retired officers and\nemployees or group of retired officers and employees of an agency or\ndepartment of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to such a\nplan or plans to provide such insurance for or service to themselves and\ntheir families. The comptroller or other disbursing officer of the\npublic corporation, or of any fund out of which officers or employees of\nsuch public corporation are paid, is authorized to deduct from the wages\nor salary of such contracting or subscribing officer or employee, with\nhis prior consent, in writing, the sums required to be paid by such\nofficer or employee to such non-profit membership corporation or\ninsurance company. Such public corporation, if such contract or plan\nprovides that the employer shall contribute a share of the cost of such\nmedical and surgical services and hospital service, or medical and\nsurgical and hospital insurance, for its officers and employees or\nretired officers and employees, is authorized to appropriate a sum\nrequired to be paid under such contract by the public corporation as\nemployer. The sum to be paid by it under such contract, in the\ndiscretion of such public corporation, may be any percentage of the\ntotal cost including the whole thereof. Where the compensation of any\nofficer or employee whose position is covered by medical and surgical\nservices and hospital service or medical and surgical and hospital\ninsurance pursuant to this section is paid from a special or\nadministrative fund provided for by law, the contributions required to\nbe paid by the public corporation for such coverage shall be paid from\nsuch special or administrative fund. The public corporation shall be\nauthorized to pay directly to such non-p
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