US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  3-402  Awards to surviving spouses and domestic partners of members
  of the uniformed correctional and sanitation forces. The mayor is hereby
  authorized and empowered to make an award to  the  surviving  spouse  or
  domestic  partner of a member of the uniformed correctional force or the
  uniformed sanitation force, employed by the department of correction  in
  any  prison  or jail under control of the city, or any county within the
  city, or employed by the department  of  sanitation,  who  has  been  or
  hereafter  shall  be killed while engaged in the discharge of duty. Such
  award shall be fixed in the discretion of the mayor. In case there be no
  surviving spouse or domestic partner surviving the decedent, such  award
  shall  be  made  to  the minor child or children surviving the decedent.
  Such award shall be paid in one payment as soon after the death of  such
  member  of  the  uniformed  correctional  or  sanitation force as may be
  possible and shall be  in  addition  to  any  pension,  award  or  other
  allowance authorized by law.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and solely
  for  the  purposes  of  this section, a member otherwise covered by this
  section shall be deemed  to  have  been  killed  while  engaged  in  the
  discharge  of  duty  upon which his or her membership is based, provided
  that such member was in active service upon which his or her  membership
  is  based at the time that such member was ordered to active duty, other
  than for training purposes, pursuant to Title 10 of  the  United  States
  Code,  with  the armed forces of the United States, and such member died
  while on such active duty on or after the effective date of the  chapter
  of  the  laws  of  two  thousand  five  which added this paragraph while
  serving on such active military duty.