§ 607-b. Performance of duty disability retirement. a. Any member of\nthe New York city employees' retirement system who is employed by the\ncity of New York or by the New York city health and hospital corporation\nin the position of emergency medical technician or advanced emergency\nmedical technician, as those terms are defined in section three thousand\none of the public health law, who, on or after March seventeenth,\nnineteen hundred ninety-six, becomes physically or mentally\nincapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural and proximate\nresult of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of his or\nher duties shall be paid a performance of duty disability retirement\nallowance equal to three-quarters of final average salary, subject to\nsection 13-176 of the administrative code of the city of New York. Any\nmember who has made application or who, after the effective date of the\nchapter of the laws of two thousand four which amended this subdivision,\nmakes application for such performance of duty pension shall be entitled\nto invoke the medical review procedure provided for in subdivision e of\nsection six hundred five of this article, subject to the terms and\nconditions set forth in such subdivision.\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 the member may have been exposed to a bodily fluid\nof a person under his or her care or treatment, or while the member\nexamined, transported or otherwise had contact with such person, in the\nperformance of his or her duties) tuberculosis or hepatitis, will be\npresumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or discharge\nof his or her duties, unless the contrary be proved by competent\nevidence.\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 each 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 is determined by the comptroller to have a\nqualifying World Trade Center condition, as defined in section two of\nthis chapter, upon such determination by the head of the retirement\nsystem, it shall be presumed that such disability was incurred in the\nperformance and discharge of duty as the natural and proximate result of\nan accident not caused by such member's own willful negligence, and that\nthe member would have been physically or mentally incapacitated for the\nperformance and discharge of duty of the position from which he or she\nretired had the condition been known and fully developed at the time of\nthe member's retirement, unless the contrary is proven by competent\nevidence.\n (b) The head of the retirement system shall consider a\nreclassification of the member's retirement or vesting as an accidental\ndisability retirement effective as of t
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