2006 New York Code - Computation Of Compensation Of Members Of The Department After Service In The Fire Department.

 
    §  14-112  Computation  of  compensation  of members of the department
  after service in the fire department. a. Any member of the police  force
  in  the  department who prior to his or her appointment or employment as
  such, has served or shall have served, as  a  member  of  the  uniformed
  force  of the fire department, after appointment therein pursuant to the
  rules of the commissioner of citywide administrative  services  and  the
  provisions  of law applicable thereto, shall have the time served by him
  or her in such fire department counted as service in the  department  in
  determining  his  or her compensation, promotion, retirement and pension
  in such department as herein or otherwise provided, upon condition  that
  he  or  she  shall contribute to the police relief or pension fund a sum
  equal to the amount  which  he  or  she  would  have  been  required  to
  contribute had the time served in the fire department been served in the
  department.
    b.  Within  one  year  after  the  police pension fund shall request a
  transfer of reserves with respect to  any  such  person  who  becomes  a
  member  of  the  police  pension  fund  on or after July first, nineteen
  hundred ninety-eight, who performed such prior service in the  uniformed
  force  of  the fire department, and who has qualified for benefits under
  this section, the fire department pension fund  shall  transfer  to  the
  contingent  reserve  fund  of the police pension fund the reserve on the
  benefits of such member which is based on the contributions made by  the
  employer   (including   the  reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay).  Such
  reserve shall be determined  by  the  actuary  of  the  fire  department
  pension  fund  in  the same manner as provided in section forty-three of
  the retirement and social security law. No  such  transfer  of  reserves
  pursuant  to  this  subdivision shall be made with respect to any person
  who became a member of the police force in the department prior to  July
  first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight.