New York § 507-I - 507-IDisability benefits; Westchester county district attorney investigators

§ 507-I. 507-IDisability benefits; Westchester county district attorney investigators

§ 507-i. Disability benefits; Westchester county district attorney investigators. The county of Westchester may elect to make the benefits provided in this section available to criminal investigators, senior criminal investigators, deputy chief criminal investigators, and chief criminal investigators who are in the employ of the Westchester county district attorney. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any general or special law to the contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in the disability or death to a member covered by this section, presently employed and who shall have sustained such disability while so employed, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into service as a member covered by this section, which examination failed to disclose evidence of any disease or other impairment of the heart, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary can be proved by competent evidence.