2006 New York Code - Members Having Service As Council Members; Special Expense Payments Included In Compensation.

 
    §  13-190  Members  having service as council members; special expense
  payments included in compensation. a. For the purpose of determining the
  rights, benefits, privileges and obligations, under this chapter, of any
  person who is, on or after the effective date of this section, a member,
  the compensation of such member with  respect  to  any  period  of  time
  heretofore or hereafter occurring during which he or she served or shall
  serve  as  a  council  member  in  the city council, or the compensation
  earnable by such member during any  such  period,  shall  be  deemed  to
  include  the  amount  of  any  payments  made to such member by the city
  during such period for councilmanic special  expenses,  subject  to  the
  provisions of subdivision b of this section.
    b.  Member contributions to the retirement system shall be made on the
  basis of compensation  as  determined  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
  subdivision  a  of  this  section; provided, however, that no additional
  member contributions, by reason of such determination, shall be required
  to be made with respect to any period prior to  the  effective  date  of
  this section.