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