§ 385. Retirement of members in the Nassau county police department.\na. As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have\nthe following meanings unless a different meaning is plainly required by\nthe context:\n 1. "County." Nassau county.\n 2. "Department." The county police department.\n 3. "Total service in such department." Service in the department, the\npolice department or police force of any town, village or police\ndistrict in the county, in the office of the sheriff of Nassau county\nprior to April sixteen, nineteen hundred twenty-five, as a Long Island\nstate park patrolman, or in the division of state police in the state\nexecutive department.\n b. Any member in the department, including the commissioner of police,\nwho so elected, on or before January first, nineteen hundred\nforty-eight, to contribute to the New York state and local employees'\nretirement system pursuant to the provisions of former section\neighty-five of this chapter in effect prior to April first, nineteen\nhundred sixty-seven, shall contribute to the police and fire retirement\nsystem on the basis of retirement upon his or her:\n 1. Completion of twenty-five years of total service in such\ndepartment, or\n 2. Attainment of age sixty in the service of such department if prior\nthereto,\non an allowance of one-fiftieth of his final average salary for each\nyear of total service in such department not in excess of twenty-five\nyears, provided such election was in writing and duly executed and filed\nwith the comptroller.\n c. Every employee who entered or re-entered service in the department\non or after May sixth, nineteen hundred forty-six, and before January\nfirst, nineteen hundred forty-eight, shall contribute on the basis\nprovided for by this section. Employees who entered or re-entered\nservice in the department on and after January first, nineteen hundred\nforty-eight but prior to January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six:\n 1. As members of the police force shall contribute on the basis\nprovided for by this section.\n 2. Other than as members of the police force, shall not be eligible to\nthe benefits of this section.\n d. Subject to the provisions of subdivisions b and c of this section,\nevery employee in the service of such department who is not a member of\nthe police and fire retirement system may elect to become a member. He\nor she thereupon shall contribute to the police and fire retirement\nsystem under the provisions of this section and be entitled to benefits\nas provided in this section. No such employee, however, shall be given\ncredit for service rendered prior to May sixth, nineteen hundred\nforty-six, unless he or she became a member of the New York state and\nlocal employees' retirement system on or before January first, nineteen\nhundred forty-eight and has subsequently become a member of the police\nand fire retirement system. Any such employee who became a member of the\nNew York state and local employees' retirement system, on or before\nJanuary first, nineteen hundred forty-eight, and has subsequently become\na member of the police and fire retirement system shall be entitled to\ncredit for past service in the department as if he or she had become a\nmember when first eligible. Such employee, however, shall pay the\ncontributions he or she would have made prior to such date had he or she\nbeen a member during such service. The amount of such contributions\nshall be paid in a lump sum or in such installments as the comptroller\nshall approve. In lieu of such payment, however, such employee may\nreceive on retirement the benefit otherwise provided by this section,\nless such annuity as is the actuarial equivalent of such unpaid\ncontributions.\n e. A member, who elects or is required to contribute in accordance\nwith this section, shall contribute, in lieu of the proportion of\ncompensation as provided in section three hundred twenty-one of this\narticle, a proportion of his compensati
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