2019 New York Laws
PBO - Public Officers
Article 2 - Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers
18-A - Reimbursement of Funds Paid by a Public Entity for the Payment of Awards Adjudicated in Sexual Harassment Claims.

§ 18-a. Reimbursement of funds paid by a public entity for the payment
of  awards  adjudicated  in sexual harassment claims. 1. As used in this
section:
  (a) The term "public entity" shall mean  (i)  a  county,  city,  town,
village  or  any  other  political  subdivision or civil division of the
state;  (ii)  a  school  district,  board  of  cooperative   educational
services, or any other governmental entity or combination or association
of  governmental  entities operating a public school, college, community
college or university; (iii) a public improvement or  special  district;
(iv)   a   public   authority,  commission,  agency  or  public  benefit
corporation; or (v) any other separate corporate instrumentality or unit
of government; but shall not include the state of New York or any  other
public  entity the employees of which are covered by section seventeen-a
of this article.
  (b) The term "employee" shall  mean  any  commissioner,  member  of  a
public board or commission, trustee, director, officer, employee, or any
other  person  holding a position by election, appointment or employment
in the service of a public entity, whether or not compensated. The  term
"employee"  shall  include  a  former  employee  or judicially appointed
personal representative.
  2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any employee who has  been
subject  to  a  final  judgment  of  personal  liability for intentional
wrongdoing related to a claim of sexual harassment, shall reimburse  any
public  entity  that  makes  a payment to a plaintiff for an adjudicated
award based on a claim of sexual harassment resulting in a judgment, for
his or her proportionate share of such  judgment.  Such  employee  shall
personally reimburse such public entity within ninety days of the public
entity's payment of such award.
  3.  If such employee fails to reimburse such public entity pursuant to
subdivision two of this section within ninety days from  the  date  such
public  entity makes a payment for the financial award, the chief fiscal
officer of such public entity shall, upon obtaining  a  money  judgment,
withhold   from  such  employee's  compensation  the  amounts  allowable
pursuant to section fifty-two hundred thirty-one of the  civil  practice
law and rules.
  4.  If such employee is no longer employed by such public entity, such
public entity shall have the right to receive reimbursement through  the
enforcement  of  a  money  judgment pursuant to article fifty-two of the
civil practice law and rules.