472-A - Compulsory separation from service of members of the correction department.
§ 472-a. Compulsory separation from service of members of the correction department. 1. Any member of the correction department who elects to contribute in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-eight of the retirement and social security law, and (a) who prior to the effective date of this act has attained sixty-three years of age or who shall attain such age on or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-six and (b) who on or after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six and on or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-six shall complete twenty-five years of total service as a member of the correction department shall be separated from such service on March thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-six. 2. Any member who shall complete twenty-five years of such total service on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-six but who has not attained sixty-three years of age at the time of completion of such period of service, shall be separated from such service upon attaining such age. 3. Any member who shall attain sixty-three years of age on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, but who has not completed twenty-five years of such total service at the time of attaining such age, shall be separated from such service upon completing such period of service. 4. Any member appointed on or after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-five shall be separated from such service upon attaining sixty-three years of age. 5. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to any member who on the effective date of this act has completed twenty-five years of such total service as a member of the correction department, regardless of age. 6. For the purpose of this section, in computing twenty-five years of total service full credit shall be given for the time that a member was on military leave from service as a member of the correction department.