§ 504-d. Twenty-year retirement program for New York city correction\nmembers. a. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this\nsection shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is\nplainly required by the context.\n 1. "New York city correction officer" shall mean a member of the\nuniformed force of the New York city department of correction who holds\nthe rank of correction officer below the rank of captain; correction\ncaptain; assistant deputy warden, also known as warden correction level\nI; deputy warden or deputy warden-in-command, also known as warden\ncorrection level II; warden or deputy chief, also known as warden\ncorrection level III; or chief of department, also known as warden\ncorrection in the correction service of such city.\n 2. "New York city correction member" shall mean a general member (as\ndefined in subdivision twelve of section five hundred one of this\narticle) who is a New York city correction officer.\n 3. "Twenty-year retirement program" shall mean all the terms and\nconditions of this section.\n 4. "Starting date of the twenty-year retirement program" shall mean\nthe effective date of this section, as such date is certified pursuant\nto section forty-one of the legislative law.\n 5. "Participant in the twenty-year retirement program" shall mean any\nNew York city correction member who, under the applicable provisions of\nsubdivision b of this section, is entitled to the rights, benefits and\nprivileges and is subject to the obligations of the twenty-year\nretirement program, as applicable to him or her.\n 6. "Discontinued member" shall mean a participant in the twenty-year\nretirement program who, while he or she was a New York city correction\nofficer, discontinued service in the uniformed force of the New York\ncity department of correction and has a right to a deferred vested\nbenefit under subdivision d of this section.\n 7. "Administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the\ncity of New York.\n b. Participation in twenty-year retirement program. 1. Each person who\nbecomes a New York city correction member on or after the starting date\nof the twenty-year retirement program, who first became or becomes a New\nYork city correction member on or after such starting date and who, as\nsuch a correction member or otherwise, becomes subject to the provisions\nof this article on or after such starting date, shall become a\nparticipant in the twenty-year retirement program on the date he or she\nbecomes a New York city correction member. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law to the contrary, a participant in the twenty-year\nretirement program shall have the term "credited service" applied to him\nor her in the same manner as such term would be applied to a similarly\nsituated correction officer who is governed by article eleven of this\nchapter, and who is a participant in either the twenty-year improved\nbenefit retirement program for correction officers below the rank of\ncaptain established by section four hundred forty-five-a of such article\neleven or the twenty-year improved benefit retirement program for\ncaptains and above established by section four hundred forty-five-c of\nsuch article eleven.\n 1-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subdivision or any\nother provision of law to the contrary, no member of the uniformed force\nof the New York city department of correction who is a New York city\nuniformed correction/sanitation revised plan member shall be a\nparticipant in the twenty-year retirement program.\n 2. Where any participant in the twenty-year retirement program shall\ncease to hold the position of New York city correction officer, he or\nshe shall cease to be such a participant, and shall not be such a\nparticipant during any period in which he or she does not hold the\nposition of New York city correction officer.\n 3. Where any participant in the twenty-year retirement program\nterminates service as a Ne
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