§ 604-g. Twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program for automotive\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. "Automotive member" shall mean a member of the retirement system\nemployed by the mayoral and non-mayoral agencies of the city of New York\nas a senior automotive service worker, an automotive service worker, an\nauto body worker, an auto mechanic, a marine maintenance mechanic, an\noil burner specialist, a supervisor of mechanics (mechanical equipment),\nsenior stationary engineer, stationary engineer, auto mechanic (diesel),\nauto electrician, auto machinist, machinist or machinist helper.\n 2. "Twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program" shall mean all the\nterms and conditions of this section.\n 3. "Starting date of the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement\nprogram" shall mean, with respect to supervisors of mechanics\n(mechanical equipment), the effective date of this section as such date\nis certified pursuant to section forty-one of the legislative law, and\nshall mean December twelfth, two thousand one with respect to all other\nautomotive members.\n 4. "Participant in the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program"\nshall mean any automotive 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-five year/age\nfifty retirement program, as applicable to him or her.\n 5. "Discontinued member" shall mean a participant in the twenty-five\nyear/age fifty retirement program who, while he or she was an automotive\nmember, discontinued service as such a member and has a right to a\ndeferred vested benefit under subdivision d of this section.\n 6. "Administrative code" shall mean the administrative code of the\ncity of New York.\n b. Participation in twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program. 1.\nSubject to the provisions of paragraphs six and seven of this\nsubdivision, any person who is an automotive member on the starting date\nof the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program and who, as such an\nautomotive member or otherwise, last became subject to the provisions of\nthis article prior to such starting date, may elect to become a\nparticipant in the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program by\nfiling, within two hundred seventy days after the starting date of the\ntwenty-five year/age fifty retirement program, a duly executed\napplication for such participation with the retirement system of which\nsuch person is a member, provided he or she is such an automotive member\non 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 automotive member after the\nstarting date of the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement program and\nwho, as such an automotive member or otherwise, last became subject to\nthe provisions of this article prior to such starting date, may elect to\nbecome a participant in the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement\nprogram by filing within two hundred seventy days after becoming such an\nautomotive member, a duly executed application for such participation\nwith the retirement system for which such person is a member provided he\nor she is such an automotive member on the date such application is\nfiled.\n 3. Any election to be a participant in the twenty-five year/age fifty\nretirement program shall be irrevocable.\n 4. Each automotive member who becomes subject to the provisions of\nthis article on or after the starting date of the twenty-five year/age\nfifty retirement program shall become a participant in the twenty-five\nyear/age fifty retirement program on the date he or she becomes such an\nautomotive member.\n 5. Where any participant in the twenty-five year/age fifty retirement\nprogram shall cease to be
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