General Municipal Law 207-AA — Legislation

Legislation Search OpenLegislation Statutes Search Term Search icon Search previous SECTION 207-A Payment of salary, medical and hospital expenses of firefighters with injuries or illness incurred in performance of duties up ARTICLE 10 Firefighters and Police Officers next SECTION 207-B Additional retirement benefits for certain firefighters in cities Viewing most recent revision (from 2025-12-26) View historical revision as of: -- Choose a Date -- 2025-12-26 Share Facebook Email SECTION 207-AA Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of sanitation departments in certain cities General Municipal (GMU) CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 10 § 207-aa. Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of sanitation departments in certain cities. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers' compensation law and the labor law, any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.