A 9291: Increases the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-seven.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9291 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY December 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-seven The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 15-121 of the administrative code of the city of 2 New York is amended to read as follows: 3 § 15-121 Termination of service of members of uniformed force because 4 of superannuation. a. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision c of 5 this section no member of the uniformed force of the department except 6 medical officers, who is or hereafter attains the age of [sixty-five] 7 sixty-seven years shall continue to serve as a member of such force but 8 shall be retired and placed on the pension rolls of the department, 9 provided however, that any member who is not eligible for retirement at 10 age [sixty-five] sixty-seven, shall continue to serve as a member only 11 until such time as such member becomes eligible for such pension retire- 12 ment. 13 b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision a of this section or 14 of any other section of law, any member who shall not have completed 15 thirty-five years of creditable city service within the meaning of 16 subdivision h of section 13-304 of the code, prior to attaining the age 17 of [sixty-five] sixty-seven years may continue to serve as a member 18 until [he or she] such member shall have completed such thirty-five 19 years of creditable city service, provided that [he or she] such member 20 is capable of performing duty acceptable to the commissioner. This 21 section does not apply to chaplains or medical officers. This section 22 shall apply only to members who are in the department on the first day 23 of December, nineteen hundred seventy-one. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14057-01-5 
 A. 9291 2 1 c. Any member whose retirement has become mandatory under the 2 provisions of subdivision a of this section may, upon approval of the 3 commissioner, request of the board of estimate that [he or she] such 4 member be continued as a member of the uniformed force for a period not 5 exceeding two years. The board, where advantageous to the public 6 service, may grant such request for a period not exceeding two years. At 7 the termination of such additional period of service, such board may in 8 like manner permit such member to continue in the public service for 9 successive periods each not exceeding two years. In no event shall a 10 member be continued in public service upon attaining the age of seven- 11 ty-five years. 12 § 2. Subdivision j of section 13-145.1 of the administrative code of 13 the city of New York, as added by chapter 823 of the laws of 1985, is 14 amended to read as follows: 15 j. Any member who elects such transfer of membership shall be subject 16 to mandatory retirement upon attainment of age [sixty-five] sixty-seven 17 under subdivision a of section 15-121 of the code in the same manner as 18 any other member of the uniformed force who is not a medical officer. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.