Bill Text: NY A09348 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes technical changes relating to removing the requirement that an application for membership in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System or the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System be notarized (acknowledged).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.123 [A09348 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09348-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9348
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 24, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ABBATE -- (at request of the State Comptroller)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          the form of a membership application
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision a of section 40 of the
     2  retirement and social security law is amended to read as follows:
     3    Each person who becomes a member of the retirement system shall file a
     4  duly executed [and acknowledged] application with the comptroller.  Such
     5  application shall contain:
     6    § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision a  of  section  340  of  the
     7  retirement and social security law, as added by chapter 1000 of the laws
     8  of 1966, is amended to read as follows:
     9    After  the  effective  date of this article, each person who becomes a
    10  member of the [policemen's and  firemen's]  New  York  state  and  local
    11  police  and  fire  retirement  system  shall  file  a duly executed [and
    12  acknowledged] application with the comptroller. Such  application  shall
    13  contain:
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13499-01-6