2012 New York Consolidated Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - (200 - 209-Z) FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN
207-N - Performance of duty disability retirement.

 
    §  207-n.  Performance of duty disability retirement.  Notwithstanding
  the provisions of any general, special or local  law  or  administrative
  code  to  the  contrary,  but  except  for  the purposes of the workers'
  compensation law and the labor law, a paid member of the uniformed force
  of a paid correction department, where such paid member  is  drawn  from
  competitive  civil  service  lists,  who  successfully passed a physical
  examination on entry into the service of such department, who  contracts
  HIV  (where  there may have been exposure to a bodily fluid of an inmate
  or any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction  of  the
  department of correction, or the department of health, or any person who
  has  been  committed  to  such institution by any court as a natural and
  proximate result of an act of any inmate or person described above, that
  may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from
  an inmate or person described above  to  the  member),  tuberculosis  or
  hepatitis  will  be  presumed  to  have  contracted  such disease in the
  performance or discharge of his or her duties, unless  the  contrary  be
  proved by competent evidence.