2006 New York Code - Protection Against Fraud Or Mistake.

 
    §  13-182  Protection  against  fraud or mistake. Any person who shall
  knowingly make any false statement, or shall falsify  or  permit  to  be
  falsified  any  record  or  records  of this retirement system, shall be
  guilty of a misdemeanor. Should any change or error in records result in
  any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system  more  or
  less  than  he  or she would have been entitled to receive otherwise, on
  the discovery of any such error such board  shall  correct  such  error,
  and,  as  far as practicable, shall adjust the payments in such a manner
  that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to  which  he  or  she  was
  entitled shall be paid.