* § 445-f. Optional twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram for deputy sheriff 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. "Deputy sheriff member" shall mean a member of the retirement\nsystem who is subject to the provisions of this article, who is employed\nby the city of New York as a deputy city sheriff level one, deputy city\nsheriff level two, supervising deputy sheriff or administrative sheriff.\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, as such date\nis certified pursuant to section forty-one of the legislative law.\n 5. "Participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram" shall mean any deputy sheriff member who, under the applicable\nprovisions of subdivision b of this section, is entitled to the rights,\nbenefits and privileges and is subject to the obligations of the\ntwenty-five year improved benefit retirement program, as applicable to\nhim 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.\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 credited service.\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 a deputy sheriff member on 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 such\nstarting date, a duly executed application for such participation with\nthe retirement system, provided he or she is such a deputy sheriff\nmember on the date such application is filed.\n 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs five and six of this\nsubdivision, any person who becomes a deputy sheriff member after the\nstarting date of the twenty-five year improved benefit retirement\nprogram may elect to become a participant in the twenty-five year\nimproved benefit retirement program by filing, within one hundred eighty\ndays after becoming such a deputy sheriff member, a duly executed\napplication for such participation with the retirement system, provided\nhe or she is such a deputy sheriff member on the date such application\nis 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 a deputy sheriff\nmember, he or she shall cease to be such a participant and, during any\nperiod in which such a person does not hold such a deputy sheriff\nposition, he or she shall not be a participant in the twenty-five year\nimproved benefit retirement program and shall not be eligible for the\nbenefits of subdivision c of this section.\n 5. Where any participant in the twenty-five year improved benefit\nretirement program terminates service as a deputy sheriff member and\nreturns to such service as a deputy sheriff member at a later date, he\nor she shall again become such a participant on that date.\n 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any\nperson who is eligible to become a participant in the twenty-five year\nimproved benefit retirement program pursuant
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