Argued April 25, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, Edward S. Conway, J. Marjorie E. Karowe for appellants. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Peter G. Crary, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents. Christopher H. Gardner, Richard E. Casagrande and Richard O'Hara for Council 82, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and others, amici curiae. BELLACOSA, J. Article V, § 7 of the New York State Constitution provides

This chapter shall apply to all counties, except that: (a) It shall not apply to a county wholly contained within a city, unless specifically so provided; (b) The provisions of this chapter in so far as they are in conflict with or in limitation of a provision of any alternative form of county government heretofore or hereafter adopted by a county pursuant to section two of article nine of the constitution, or any administrative code, county government law or civil divisions act enacted by the legislature

a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as otherwise provided in subdivisions c and f of this section, the provisions of this article shall apply to all members who join or rejoin a public retirement system of the state on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-six and to all employees who would have been eligible to join or rejoin such a retirement system on or after such date but in lieu thereof elected an optional retirement program to which their employers are thereby required

a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but subject to the provisions of subdivisions c and d of this section, the provisions and limitations of this article shall apply, as may be appropriate, to all members who join or rejoin a public retirement system of the state or of a municipality thereof, and to all employees who would be eligible to join such a retirement system but in lieu thereof elected an optional retirement program to which their employers are thereby required to contribute,

a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of this article shall apply to all members who join or rejoin a public retirement system of the state on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-six and to all employees who would have been eligible to join or rejoin such a retirement system on or after such date but in lieu thereof elected an optional retirement program to which their employers are thereby required to contribute, except the following: 1. Members of the New York

a. Every temporary right, privilege or benefit conferred pursuant to the provisions of a general, special or local law (other than pursuant to articles fourteen and fifteen of this chapter) for any member of a public retirement system or pension plan funded by the state or one of its political subdivisions, which is scheduled to expire or terminate at any time during nineteen hundred seventy-four, nineteen hundred seventy-five, nineteen hundred seventy-six, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, nineteen

a. Members shall contribute three percent of annual wages to the retirement system in which they have membership, provided that such contributions shall not be required for more than thirty years, for general members, or twenty-five years, for police/fire members, except that beginning April first, two thousand thirteen for members who first become members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system on or after April first, two thousand twelve, the rate at which each such member

a. A death benefit plus the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay, if any, shall be payable upon the death of a member of a retirement system who: 1. Died before the effective date of retirement while a member of such retirement system; 2. Had at least ten years of credited service at the time of death; and 3. Died at a time and in a manner which did not result in the eligibility of the member's estate or any beneficiary to receive any death benefits from such retirement system on account of such death

a. A death benefit plus the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay, if any, shall be payable upon the death of a member of a retirement system who: 1. Died before the effective date of retirement while a member of such retirement system; 2. Had a least ten years of credited service at the time of death; and 3. Died at a time and in a manner which did not result in the eligibility of the member's estate or any beneficiary to receive any death benefits from such retirement system on account of such death

a. The normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan members at normal retirement age shall be a pension equal to fifty percent of final average salary, less fifty percent of the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two, as provided in section five hundred eleven of this article. b. The early service retirement benefit for police/fire members, New York city uniformed

(a) Form and size. (1) Generally; paper and page size. Records, appendices and briefs shall be reproduced by any method that produces a permanent, legible, black on white copy and shall be on a good grade of white, opaque, unglazed recycled paper that satisfies the requirements of subdivision (e) of this section. Paper shall measure vertically 11 inches on the bound edge and horizontally 81/2 inches. The clerk may refuse to accept for filing a paper which is not legible or otherwise does not comply