2020 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers
208-C - Death Benefits for Dependent Fathers or Dependent Mothers of Certain Police Officers and Firefighters.

Universal Citation: NY Gen Mun L § 208-C (2020)
§  208-c. Death benefits for dependent fathers or dependent mothers of
certain police officers and firefighters. 1. Notwithstanding  any  other
provision  of  law,  and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided,
any municipality, as enumerated in section two hundred eight-b  of  this
chapter,  may  elect  to  make  the  death  benefit  provided thereunder
available and paid to the dependent father or dependent  mother,  as  he
shall  have nominated by written designation duly acknowledged and filed
with the chief officer  of  the  municipality  maintaining  such  police
department, or police force, or fire department; or, if there be no such
nomination,  then  to  his dependent father or dependent mother, as such
chief officer, in his discretion, shall determine if

(a) The member shall leave no widow, or if his widow shall die before receiving the total of the amounts provided in subdivision two of section two hundred eight-b of this chapter, and

(b) He has no child or children under the age of eighteen surviving. 2. Application for such death benefit shall be made by the member's dependent father or dependent mother in the manner provided in subdivision four of section two hundred eight-b of this chapter.

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