§ 445-b. Optional twenty-year improved benefit retirement program for\nNew York city sanitation members. a. Definitions. The following words\nand phrases as used in this section shall have the following meanings\nunless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:\n 1. "Retirement system" shall mean the New York city employees'\nretirement system.\n 2. "New York city sanitation member" shall mean a member of the\nretirement system who is subject to the provisions of this article, who\nis a member of the uniformed force of the New York city department of\nsanitation and who has elected to contribute to the retirement system on\nthe basis of a minimum retirement period of twenty years of allowable\nservice rendered in such sanitation force pursuant to the optional\nretirement provisions of section 13-159 or 13-160 of the administrative\ncode.\n 3. "Twenty-year improved benefit retirement program" shall mean all\nthe terms and conditions of this section.\n 4. "Starting date of the twenty-year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean the commencement date of the payroll period which\nincludes July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two.\n 5. "Enactment date of the twenty-year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean the date of enactment of the act which added this\nsection, as such date is certified pursuant to section forty-one of the\nlegislative law.\n 6. "Participant in the twenty-year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean any New York city sanitation member who, under the\napplicable provisions of subdivision b of this section, is entitled to\nthe rights, benefits and privileges and is subject to the obligations of\nthe twenty-year improved benefit retirement program, as applicable to\nhim or her.\n 7. "Administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the\ncity of New York.\n 8. "Accumulated deductions" shall mean accumulated deductions as\ndefined in subdivision eleven of section 13-101 of the administrative\ncode.\n b. Election of twenty-year improved benefit retirement program. 1.\nSubject to the provisions of paragraph five of this subdivision, any\nperson who is a New York city sanitation member on the enactment date of\nthe twenty-year improved benefit retirement program may elect to become\na participant in the twenty-year improved benefit retirement program by\nfiling, within ninety days after such enactment date, a duly executed\napplication for such participation with the retirement system, provided\nhe or she is such a sanitation member on the date such application is\nfiled.\n 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph five of this subdivision,\nany person who becomes a New York city sanitation member after the\nenactment date of the twenty-year improved benefit retirement program\nmay elect to become a participant in the twenty-year improved benefit\nretirement program by filing, within ninety days after becoming such a\nsanitation member, a duly executed application for such participation\nwith the retirement system, provided he or she is such a sanitation\nmember on the date such application is filed.\n 3. Any election to be a participant in the twenty-year improved\nbenefit retirement program shall be irrevocable.\n 4. Where any participant in the twenty-year improved benefit\nretirement program shall cease to hold a position in the uniformed force\nof the New York city department of sanitation, he or she shall cease to\nbe such a participant and, during any period in which such person does\nnot hold such a uniformed sanitation position, he or she shall not be a\nparticipant in the twenty-year improved benefit retirement program and\nshall not be eligible for the benefits of subdivision c of this section.\n 5. Where any participant in the twenty-year improved benefit\nretirement program terminates service in the uniformed force of the New\nYork city department of sanitation and returns to such service as a New\nYork city sanitation member at a later dat
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