N.Y. Retire. & Soc. Sec. Law § 114
All state employees, except teachers in the state college for teachers and the state normal schools and teachers in the state agricultural and industrial school who shall be considered as teachers subject to the provisions of article eleven of the education law, and, except such state employees as are otherwise provided for by the mental hygiene law and the correction law, who were included under the provisions of chapter four hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred ten; chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred thirteen; chapter five hundred and eleven and section sixteen of chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred fourteen; chapters five hundred and fifty-seven and six hundred and fourteen of the laws of nineteen hundred fifteen; chapter two hundred and twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred nineteen; chapter seven hundred and ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty, who elected to become members of the New York state employees' retirement system on or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-two, shall continue to be members of such system and shall be subject to all the provisions of law relative to such system with the exception that they shall be entitled to credit for prior service as defined by section two of this chapter, including service as a grand jury stenographer, up to and including July first, nineteen hundred twenty-one. All teachers of the state agricultural and industrial school who were entitled to retirement under section ten hundred and ninety-five of the education law, as added by chapter four hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred ten, who have become or hereafter become members of the state teachers' retirement system, shall be entitled to credit for the same service upon retirement under the laws relating to such system, as they would have been entitled to receive under the provisions of said section ten hundred and ninety-five of the education law.
N.Y. Retire. and Soc. Sec. Law § 114