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* § 606-c. Death benefits for correction officers employed by Westchester county. a. As used in this section, the term 'correction officer' shall mean a person employed by the Westchester county correction department with a title of correction officer, correction officer-sergeant, correction officer-captain, assistant warden, associate warden or warden. b. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, where a correction officer would have been entitled to a service retirement benefit at the time of his or her death and where his or her death occurs on or after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three that added this section, the beneficiary or beneficiaries may elect to receive, in a lump sum, an amount payable which shall be equal to the pension reserve that would have been established had the member retired on the date of his or her death, or the value of the death benefit and the reserve-for-increased-take-home-pay, if any, whichever is greater. * NB There are 2 § 606-c's