* § 604-e. Twenty-five year retirement program for EMT members. a.\nDefinitions. The following words and phrases as used in this section\nshall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is plainly\nrequired by the context.\n 1. "EMT member" shall mean a member of the New York city employees'\nretirement system who is employed by the city of New York or by the New\nYork city health and hospitals corporation in a title whose duties are\nthose of an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical\ntechnician (as those terms are defined in section three thousand one of\nthe public health law), or in a title whose duties require the\nsupervision of employees whose duties are those of an emergency medical\ntechnician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are\ndefined in section three thousand one of the public health law).\n 2. "Twenty-five year retirement program" shall mean all the terms and\nconditions of this section.\n 3. "Starting date of the twenty-five year retirement program" shall\nmean that date of enactment of this section.\n 4. "Participant in the twenty-five year retirement program" shall mean\nany EMT member who, under the applicable provisions of subdivision b of\nthis section, is entitled to the rights, benefits and privileges and is\nsubject to the obligations of the twenty-five year retirement program,\nas applicable to him or her.\n 5. "Discontinued member" shall mean a participant in the twenty-five\nyear retirement program who, while he or she was an EMT member,\ndiscontinued service as such a member and has a right to a deferred\nvested benefit under subdivision d of this section.\n 6. "Administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the\ncity of New York.\n 7. "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. Participation in twenty-five year retirement program. 1. Subject to\nthe provisions of paragraphs six and seven of this subdivision, any\nperson who is an EMT member on the starting date of the twenty-five year\nretirement program and who, as such an EMT member or otherwise, last\nbecame subject to the provisions of this article prior to such starting\ndate, may elect to become a participant in the twenty-five year\nretirement program by filing, within one hundred eighty days after the\nstarting date of the twenty-five year retirement program, a duly\nexecuted application for such participation with the retirement system\nof which such person is a member, provided he or she is such an EMT\nmember on the date such application is filed.\n 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs six and seven of this\nsubdivision, any person who becomes an EMT member after the starting\ndate of the twenty-five year retirement program and who, as such an EMT\nmember or otherwise, last became subject to the provisions of this\narticle prior to such starting date, may elect to become a participant\nin the twenty-five year retirement program by filing, within one hundred\neighty days after becoming such an EMT member, a duly executed\napplication for such participation with the retirement system for which\nsuch person is a member, provided he or she is such an EMT member on the\ndate such application is filed.\n 3. Each EMT member, other than an EMT member subject to paragraph one\nor two of this subdivision, who becomes subject to the provisions of\nthis article on or after the starting date of the twenty-five year\nretirement program shall become a participant in the twenty-five year\nretirement program on the date he or she becomes such an EMT member.\nProvided, however, a person subject to this paragraph, and who has\nexceeded age twenty-five upon employment as an EMT member, shall be\nexempt from participation in the improved twenty-five year retirement\nprogram if s
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