2016 New York Laws
PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Article 6 - (Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law) NEW YORK CITY OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATION
606 - Personnel administration; pension, retirement and other benefits.

   606.  Personnel  administration;  pension,  retirement  and  other
  benefits.  1. For the purposes of this section, all employees of the New
  York city off-track betting corporation on or after the  effective  date
  of  the  chapter  of  the  laws of two thousand eight which amended this
  section shall remain employees of such corporation after such  effective
  date.
2.  The  corporation  shall  administer  its personnel pursuant to the
  civil service law and the rules and regulations promulgated  thereunder,
  and classification and compensation schedules of the state department of
  civil  service,  and  all  other  applicable  provisions of general laws
  relating to civil service administration. The corporation  shall  retain
  all  personnel, payroll and associated employee records and shall ensure
  that the New York city employees' retirement system has access  to  such
  records   for   retirement  purposes  consistent  with  current  records
  retention requirements.
3. Any officer or employee of the corporation who heretofore  acquired
  or  shall  hereafter acquire such position status by transfer and who at
  the time of such transfer was a member of the New York  city  employees'
  retirement  system  shall,  with  respect  to  such  retirement  system,
  continue to have the rights, privileges, obligations  and  status  which
  would  have  applied  to  him  if he had continued to hold the office or
  position which entitled him to such membership prior to  such  transfer.
  Employment  by  the  corporation  shall  constitute city-service for the
  purposes of chapter one of title thirteen of the administrative code  of
  the city of New York.
4.  All  employees  and  officers  of  the  corporation  in classes or
  positions whose incumbents, in equivalent classes or  positions  of  the
  city,  are eligible, as of the effective date hereof, to participate in,
  and receive benefits  from  any  city  authorized  health  insurance  or
  welfare  benefit  program,  shall  be  eligible  to  participate in, and
  receive benefits from any  such  health  insurance  or  welfare  benefit
  program;  provided,  however,  that  the corporation shall reimburse the
  city or its  designee  for  the  actual  cost  of  benefits  under  this
  subdivision.