§ 604-h. Twenty-five year retirement program for police communications\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. "Police communications member" shall mean a member of the\nretirement system employed by the police department as a police\ncommunications technician, a supervising police communications\ntechnician or a principal police communications technician.\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 the date of enactment of this section, as such date is certified\npursuant to section forty-one of the legislative law.\n 4. "Participant in the twenty-five year retirement program" shall mean\nany police communications 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\nretirement program, as 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 a police communications\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 retirement program. 1. Subject to\nthe provisions of paragraphs six and seven of this subdivision, any\nperson who is a police communications member on the starting date of the\ntwenty-five year retirement program and who, as such a police\ncommunications member or otherwise, last became subject to the\nprovisions of this article prior to such starting date, may elect to\nbecome a participant in the twenty-five year retirement program by\nfiling, within one hundred eighty days after the starting date of the\ntwenty-five year retirement program, a duly executed application for\nsuch participation with the retirement system of which such person is a\nmember, provided he or she is such a police communications member on the\ndate such application is filed.\n 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs six and seven of this\nsubdivision, any person who becomes a police communications member after\nthe starting date of the twenty-five year retirement program and who, as\nsuch a police communications 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 retirement program by\nfiling, within one hundred eighty days after becoming such a police\ncommunications member, a duly executed application for such\nparticipation with the retirement system for which such person is a\nmember, provided he or she is such a police communications member on the\ndate such application is filed.\n 3. Any election to be a participant in the twenty-five year retirement\nprogram shall be irrevocable.\n 4. Each police communications member who becomes subject to the\nprovisions of this article on or after the starting date of the\ntwenty-five year retirement program shall become a participant in the\ntwenty-five year retirement program on the date he or she becomes such a\npolice communications member. Provided, however, a person subject to\nthis paragraph who has exceeded age thirty upon employment as such a\nmember shall be exempt from participation in the twenty-five year\nretirement program if such person elects not to participate by filing a\nduly executed form with the retirement system within one hundred eighty\ndays of becoming such a member.\n 5. Where any participant in the twenty-five year retirement program\nshall cease to be employed by the city of New York as a police\ncommunications member, he or she shall cease
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