* § 445-e. Optional twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram for EMT members. a. Definitions. The following words and phrases\nas used in this section shall have the following meanings unless a\ndifferent meaning is plainly required by the context.\n 1. "Retirement system" shall mean the New York city employees'\nretirement system.\n 2. "EMT member" shall mean a member of the retirement system who is\nemployed by the city of New York or by the New York city health and\nhospitals corporation in a title whose duties are those of an emergency\nmedical technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those\nterms are defined in section three thousand one of the public health\nlaw), or in a title whose duties require the supervision of employees\nwhose duties are those of an emergency medical technician or advanced\nemergency medical technician (as those terms are defined in section\nthree thousand one of the public health law).\n 3. "Twenty-five year improved benefit retirement program" shall mean\nall the terms and conditions of this section.\n 4. "Starting date of the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean the date of enactment of this section.\n 5. "Participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean any EMT member who, under the applicable provisions\nof subdivision b of this section, is entitled to the rights, benefits\nand privileges and is subject to the obligations of the twenty-five year\nimproved benefit retirement program, as applicable to him or her.\n 6. "Administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the\ncity of New York.\n 7. "Accumulated deductions" shall mean accumulated deductions as\ndefined in subdivision eleven of section 13-101 of the administrative\ncode of the city of New York.\n 8. "Optional retirement provisions" shall mean the right to retire and\nreceive a retirement allowance under this section upon the completion of\ntwenty-five years of allowable service as an EMT member.\n 9. "Allowable service as an EMT member" shall mean (i) all service as\nan EMT member; and (ii) all service while employed by the city of New\nYork or by the New York city health and hospitals corporation in the\ntitle motor vehicle operator.\n b. Election of twenty-five year improved benefit retirement program.\n1. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs five and six of this\nsubdivision, any person who is an EMT member on the starting date of the\ntwenty-five year improved benefit retirement program may elect to become\na participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram by filing, within one hundred eighty days after such starting\ndate, a duly executed application for such participation with the\nretirement system, provided he or she is such an EMT member on the date\nsuch application is filed.\n 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs five and six of this\nsubdivision, any person who becomes an EMT member after the starting\ndate of the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement program may\nelect to become a participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit\nretirement program by filing, within one hundred eighty days after\nbecoming such an EMT member, a duly executed application for such\nparticipation with the retirement system, provided he or she is such an\nEMT member on the date such application is filed.\n 3. Any election to be a participant in the twenty-five year improved\nbenefit retirement program shall be irrevocable.\n 4. Where any participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit\nretirement program shall cease to hold a position as an EMT member, he\nor she shall cease to be such a participant and, during any period in\nwhich such a person does not hold such an EMT position, he or she shall\nnot be a participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram and shall not be eligible for the benefits of subdivision c of\nthis section.\n 5. Where any particip
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