New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 4 - DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE
Chapter V - Regulations Of The Department Of Civil Service (president's Regulations)
Part 76 - Managerial/confidential Group Accident And Sickness Insurance Plan
Section 76.1 - Definitions

(a) The term plan means the group accident and sickness insurance provided under the contract with the insurer and any amendments thereto, including all the benefits provided thereunder, and all conditions and limitations applicable thereto pursuant to such contracts or as prescribed by the President of the Civil Service Commission for employees serving in positions designated managerial/confidential pursuant to article XIV of the Civil Service Law.

(b) The term insurer means an insurance corporation or company subject to supervision by the New York State Insurance Department.

(c) The term employer shall include the State of New York (in all its departments and agencies and those departments and agencies of the State maintained and financed from special or administrative funds) and any participating employer. The term participating employer shall mean a county, city having a population of less than one million inhabitants, town, village or any other political subdivision or civil division of the State, a school district or any governmental entity operating a public school, college or university, a public improvement or special district, a public authority, commission or public benefit corporation, or any other public corporation, agency or instrumentality or unit of government which exercises governmental powers under the laws of this State, which elects, with the approval of the president, to include its employees in the plan.

(d) The term employee means any person in the service of an employer on or after the effective date of the extension of this plan to employees of such employers serving in a position designated as managerial/confidential pursuant to article XIV of the Civil Service Law. Persons employed on a full-time basis by the Public Employment Relations Board shall be deemed designated managerial or confidential for the purposes of this Part. The Director of Employee Relations with respect to the State of New York shall certify to the President of the Civil Service Commission those positions of the State designated managerial/confidential pursuant to article XIV of the Civil Service Law. The Public Employment Relations Board shall certify to the president positions other than positions with the State designated managerial/confidential pursuant to article XIV of the Civil Service Law.