BILL NUMBER: S7688
SPONSOR: PALUMBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act in relation to authorizing certain police officers in the town of
Southold, county of Suffolk, to receive certain service credit under
section 384-d of the retirement and social security law
 
PURPOSE:
Authorizes a certain police officers in the town of Southold, county of
Suffolk, to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the
retirement and social security law.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Authorizes the town of Southold to make participation in the
optional 20-year retirement plan pursuant to section 384-d of the
Retirement and Social Security Law available to Frank Lyburd, III.
Section 2. Authorizes the town of Southold to make participation in the
optional 20-year retirement plan pursuant to Section 384-d of the
Retirement and Social Security Law available to Brian McNamara, Peter J.
Jacobs and Roman S. Wilinski.
Section 3. Authorizes the town of Southold to make participation in the
optional 20-year retirement plan pursuant to Section 384-d of the
Retirement and Social Security Law available to Alex U. Chenche and Tara
T. Desposito.
Section 4. Provides that the town of Southold may elect to authorize
participation for the stated six police officers by filing with the
State Comptroller within six months of the effective date of this act
with a resolution of its legislative body, together with certification
such police officers did not bar themselves from participation in such
retirement plan because of their own negligence. Thereafter, such police
officers may elect coverage by the provisions of sections 384-d and
384-e of the Retirement and Social Security Law by filing a request with
the State Comptroller within one year of the effective date.
Section 5. All costs will be borne by the Town of Southold and may be
amortized over a period of five years.
Section 6. Effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation allows the town of Southold to reopen the provisions of
Section 384-d, together . with Section 384-e, of the Retirement and
Social Security Law for six police officers employed by the town of
Southold who, for reasons not ascribable to their own negligence, were
enrolled in the general retirement plan contained in section 375-I of
the Retirement and Social Security Law.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024 S.9156/A.9920
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
See fiscal note in bill
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately