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

 
    * §  207-o. 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  employee  who  performs  the
  functions  of  an  emergency  medical  technician  or advanced emergency
  medical technician, where such employee is drawn from competitive  civil
  service   lists  and  successfully  passed  a  physical  examination  on
  employment,  who,  on  or  after  March  seventeenth,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-six, contracts HIV (where the employee may have been exposed to a
  bodily  fluid  of  a person under his or her care or treatment, or while
  the employee examined, transported or otherwise had  contact  with  such
  person,  in  the  performance  of  his  or  her  duties) tuberculosis or
  hepatitis, will be presumed to have contracted such disease as a natural
  and proximate result of an accidental injury received in the performance
  or discharge of his or her duties and not  resulting  from  his  or  her
  willful negligence, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.
    * NB There are 2 § 207-o's