§ 15-109 Salary of first grade firefighters.

Firefighters of the first grade shall be paid a minimum of three thousand dollars per annum.

§ 15-110 Promotions.

Promotions of officers and members of the force shall be made by the commissioner on the basis of seniority, meritorious service in the department and superior capacity as shown by competitive examination. Individual acts of personal bravery may be treated as an element of meritorious service in such examination, the relative rating therefor to be fixed by the commissioner of citywide administrative services. The fire commissioner shall transmit to the commissioner of citywide administrative services in advance of such examination the complete record of each candidate for promotion.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.

§ 15-111 Credit for service in the police department.

   a.   (1)   Any member of the uniformed force of the fire department, who immediately prior to his or her appointment or employment as such, has served or shall have served as a member of the police force of the police department, shall have the time served by such member in such police department counted as service in the fire department in determining his or her retirement and pension in such department as herein or otherwise provided, upon condition that he or she shall contribute to the appropriate fire department pension fund a sum equal to the amount which he or she would have been required to contribute had the time served in the police department been served in the fire department.

      (2)   Within one year after the fire department pension fund shall request a transfer of reserves with respect to any such person who becomes a member of the fire department pension fund on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, who performed such prior service in the police force of the police department, and who has qualified for benefits under this subdivision, the police pension fund shall transfer to the contingent reserve fund of the fire department pension fund the reserve on the benefits of such member which is based on the contributions made by the employer (including the reserve-for-increased-take-home pay). Such reserve shall be determined by the actuary of the police pension fund in the same manner as provided in section forty-three of the retirement and social security law. No such transfer of reserves pursuant to this paragraph shall be made with respect to any person who became a member of the uniformed force of the fire department prior to July first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight.

   b.   Any such member who shall have been a member of the police pension fund pursuant to subchapter three of chapter three of title thirteen of the code shall become a member of the department pension fund pursuant to subchapter two of chapter three of title thirteen. The election or elections made by such member pursuant to section 13-247 or 13-253 of the code shall be deemed to be the election or elections required by section 13-350 or 13-355 of the code. In the event that any such member shall have made an election pursuant to section 13-248 of the code, such election shall be deemed to be the election provided by subdivision b of section 13-350 of the code.

   c.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any member of the uniformed force of the fire department, who immediately prior to his or her appointment or employment as such, has served or shall have served as a member of the police force of the police department, the New York city transit authority police department or the New York city housing authority police department, shall have the time served by such member in such police department counted as service in the fire department in determining his or her eligibility for variable supplements fund benefits payable by the firefighters' variable supplements fund pursuant to subchapter five of chapter three of title thirteen of this code or the fire officers' variable supplements fund pursuant to subchapter six of chapter three of title thirteen of this code.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2006/004.

§ 15-111.1 Credit for service in the uniformed transit police force or uniformed housing police force.

Any member of the uniformed force of the fire department, who immediately prior to his or her appointment or employment as such, has served or shall have served as a member of the uniformed transit police force or a member of the uniformed housing police force shall have the time served by such member in such force counted as service in the fire department in determining: (a) his or her eligibility to compete in a promotional examination; (b) his or her seniority credit for the purpose of grading a promotional examination; and (c) his or her seniority credit for the purpose of determining eligibility for transfers within the uniformed force of the fire department.

§ 15-112 Working hours.

   a.   The commissioner shall divide the deputy chiefs, battalion chiefs, captains, lieutenants, engineers and firefighters, marine engineers and pilots in boats of the department into platoons, and such divisions shall be fully completed and the provisions hereof fully effectuated. None of such platoons, or any member thereof, shall be assigned to more than one tour of duty in any twenty-four consecutive hours. The commissioner shall install a two platoon system. The two platoon system shall consist of not more than two tours of duty of not more than nine hours each, to be followed by a rest period of at least forty-eight hours for all members. After such rest period there shall be not more than two tours of duty of not more than fifteen hours to be followed by a rest period for all members of at least seventy-two hours which shall continue in such sequence so that not more than six nine-hour tours of duty and six fifteen-hour tours of duty shall be worked in any twenty-five consecutive calendar days, except, in the event of conflagrations, riots or other similar emergencies or for the necessary time consumed in changing tours of duty, in which events such platoons or members thereof shall be continued on duty for such hours as may be necessary. This section shall in no manner affect any provision of law providing for furlough or leave of absence of such members of the department.

   b.   The mayor and all other officials charged with such duty are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to carry out the provisions of this section and to provide any and all necessary funds to effectuate the purposes thereof.

   c.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this title, the provisions of this section, as amended, in relation to the establishment and continuance of the platoon system and the tours of duty and the hours thereof shall not be repealed, superseded, supplemented or amended by local law, and the same may only be repealed, superseded, supplemented or amended as prescribed in section eleven of article nine of the constitution and upon the affirmative action of the qualified voters of the city of New York on a referendum submitted at a general election.