N.Y. Education Law 520 – Duties of employer
§ 520. Duties of employer. 1. Each employer shall keep such records and from time to time shall furnish such information as the retirement board in the discharge of its duties may require.
Terms Used In N.Y. Education Law 520
- Employer: shall mean the state of New York, the city, the village, school district board or trustee, or other agency of and within the state by which a teacher is paid. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Retirement board: shall mean the retirement board provided by section five hundred four of this article. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Retirement system: shall mean the New York state teachers' retirement system provided for in section five hundred two of this article. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Service: shall mean actual teaching or supervision by the teacher during regular school hours of the day, and shall mean governmental service in the state of New York in another capacity where the teacher was a member of the New York state employees retirement system, and where such service was credited to the teacher in the said New York state employees retirement system. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Teacher: shall mean any regular teacher, special teacher, including any school librarian or physical training teacher, principal, vice-principal, supervisor, supervisory principal, director, superintendent, city superintendent, assistant city superintendent, district superintendent and other member of the teaching or professional staff of any class, public school, vocational school, truant reformatory school or parental school, and of any or all classes of schools within the state of New York, including schools on the Indian reservation, conducted under the order and superintendence of and wholly or partly at the expense of the New York state education department or of a duly elected board of education, board of school directors or board of trustees of the state or of any city or school district thereof, provided that no person shall be deemed a teacher within the meaning of this article who is not so employed for full time outside vacation periods. See N.Y. Education Law 501
2. a. Upon the employment of any teacher to whom this article may apply, he shall be informed by his employer of his duties and obligations in connection with the retirement system as a condition of his employment. Every teacher accepting employment shall be deemed to consent and agree to any deductions from his compensation required herein and to all other provisions of this article.
b. Upon the employment of any teacher whose right to membership in the system has been made optional by the retirement board pursuant to subdivision two of section five hundred three of this article the employer shall inform such teacher in writing of the right to join the system. Each such teacher shall acknowledge the receipt of such notice by signing a copy thereof and filing it with such employer. Provided, however, the failure to inform such teacher shall not in any way be construed to waive the requirement that membership for such a teacher commences only when an application for membership is filed with the system nor shall it be construed to waive any of the eligibility requirements for previous service credit.
3. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation affecting the salary, pay, compensation, other prerequisites or tenure of any teacher to whom this article applies, or shall apply, and notwithstanding that the minimum salary, pay, compensation or other prerequisites, provided by law for such teacher shall be reduced thereby, payment less said deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for service rendered by such member during the period covered by such payment.
4. During September of each year, or at such other times as the retirement board shall approve, each employer shall certify to the retirement board the names of all teachers to whom this article applies.
5. Each employer shall on the first day of each calendar month or at such less frequent intervals as the retirement board may approve, notify the retirement board of the employment of new teachers, removals, withdrawals and changes in salary of members that shall have occurred during the month preceding or the period covered since the last notification.