§ 507-c. Performance of duty disability retirement; New York city\ndepartment of correction. a. Any member in the uniformed personnel in\ninstitutions under the jurisdiction of the New York city department of\ncorrection, who becomes physically or mentally incapacitated for the\nperformance of duties as the natural and proximate result of an injury,\nsustained in the performance or discharge of his or her duties by, or as\na natural and proximate result of, an act of any incarcerated individual\nor any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of the\ndepartment of correction or the department of health, or by any person\nwho has been committed to such institution by any court shall be paid a\nperformance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to\nthree-quarters of final average salary, subject to the provisions of\nsection 13-176 of the administrative code of the city of New York,\nprovided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply\nto a member of the uniformed force of the New York city department of\ncorrection who is a New York city uniformed correction/sanitation\nrevised plan member.\n b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general or\nspecial law to the contrary, a member covered by this section who\ncontracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid\nof an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a of\nthis section as a natural and proximate result of an act of any\nincarcerated individual or person described in subdivision a of this\nsection that may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible\ndisease from an incarcerated individual or such person described in such\nsubdivision a to the retirement system member), tuberculosis or\nhepatitis will be presumed to have contracted such disease in the\nperformance or discharge of his or her duties, and will be presumed to\nbe disabled from the performance of his or her duties, unless the\ncontrary be proved by competent evidence.\n c. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any\ngeneral, special or local law, charter, administrative code or rule or\nregulation to the contrary, if any condition or impairment of health is\ncaused by a qualifying World Trade Center condition as defined in\nsection two of this chapter, it shall be presumptive evidence that it\nwas incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the natural\nand proximate result of an accident not caused by such member's own\nwillful negligence unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.\n (b) The head of the retirement system is hereby authorized to\npromulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this\nparagraph.\n 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or of any\ngeneral, special or local law, charter, administrative code or rule or\nregulation to the contrary, if a member who participated in World Trade\nCenter rescue, recovery or cleanup operations, as defined in section two\nof this chapter, and subsequently retired on a service retirement, an\nordinary disability retirement, a performance of duty disability\nretirement, or was separated from service with a vested right to\ndeferred payability of a retirement allowance and subsequent to such\nretirement or separation which is determined by the head of the\nretirement system to have been a qualifying World Trade Center\ncondition, as defined in section two of this chapter, upon such\ndetermination by the head of the retirement system, it shall be presumed\nthat such disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of\nduty as the natural and proximate result of an accident not caused by\nsuch member's own willful negligence, and that the member would have\nbeen physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance and\ndischarge of duty of the position from which he or she retired or vested\nhad the condition been known and fully developed at the time of the\nmember
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