§ 343. Transfer of members between systems. a. Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law providing for transfers, any member of any\nretirement system maintained by the state or a municipality thereof,\noperating on a sound financial basis and subject to the supervision of\nthe department of financial services of this state may transfer his or\nher membership pursuant to this section to the New York state and local\nemployees' retirement system, the New York city board of education\nemployees' retirement system, the New York state teachers' retirement\nsystem, the New York state and local police and fire retirement system\nor to the New York city employees' retirement system. Any member of the\nNew York state and local police and fire retirement system may transfer\nhis or her membership to any retirement system, other than the hospital\nretirement system, which is operating on a sound basis and is subject to\nthe supervision of the department of financial services of this state.\nAny police officer employed by the metropolitan transportation authority\nwho is a member of the MTA police twenty year retirement program of the\nmetropolitan transportation authority defined benefit pension plan\n(hereinafter referred to in this section as the "MTA police retirement\nprogram") may transfer his or her membership in the New York state and\nlocal police and fire retirement system and/or the New York city police\npension fund to the MTA police retirement program. Any police officer\nwho was employed by the metropolitan transportation authority, the Long\nIsland Railroad Company or the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company and\nwho is a member of the MTA police retirement program may transfer his or\nher membership in the MTA police retirement program to the New York\nstate and local police and fire retirement system. Any transfer pursuant\nto this section may be effectuated only if the member has accepted a\nposition in another branch of the state or municipal service which would\nmake it:\n 1. Impossible for him or her to continue in the retirement system of\nwhich he or she has been a member, and\n 2. Possible for him or her to participate in another such system.\n Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subdivision, any\nemployee who would be eligible to avail himself or herself of the\nprovisions of this section but for being on leave of absence status from\na prior employment while in his or her present employment, shall be\npermitted to transfer his or her retirement system membership pursuant\nto the provisions of this section.\n b. 1. In order to effect such a transfer, a member must give notice to\nthe administrative head of the retirement system of which he or she is a\nmember, prior to his or her withdrawal therefrom, of his or her\nintention to enter such other retirement system within one year.\n 2. If a member of the New York city police pension fund is trying to\neffect a transfer from such pension fund to the MTA police retirement\nprogram, the member must give notice to the administrative head of the\nNew York city police pension fund, prior to his or her withdrawal\ntherefrom, of his or her intention to enter such other retirement system\nwithin one year or within one year of the effective date of this\nparagraph.\n 3. In the case of a person who has withdrawn from a retirement system\nand has been entitled to at least thirty years of total service credit\nin such system, however, such notice may be given within three years\nfrom the time of such withdrawal. In the case of a person who was a\nmember of a retirement system, and who while under such status becomes a\nmember of such second retirement system, and who has not withdrawn his\nor her contributions to the first such retirement system, any provisions\nof law notwithstanding, such notice may be given on or before June\nthirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven. A person so transferring from\none retirement system to another shall be deemed to have
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