Schenectady Police Benevolent Ass'n v. New York State Public Employment Relations Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Yesawich Jr., J.

In April 1990, the Schenectady Police Benevolent Association (hereinafter PBA) filed an improper practice charge with the Public Employment Relations Board (hereinafter PERB), *173alleging that the City of Schenectady had improperly instituted new rules and procedures relating to qualification for benefits under General Municipal Law § 207-c. The City answered and, after a hearing, an Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter ALJ) found that two of the prerequisites imposed by the City for receipt of benefits for line-of-duty disability (i.e., that an officer who…