§ 2799-hhhh. Indemnification; notice of claims. 1. The state shall indemnify and hold harmless the corporation, urban development corporation and safe affordable housing for everyone, inc., and pursuant to section seventeen of the public officers law, their respective officers, directors and employees, from and against any and all liability, claim, loss, damage, suit or judgment and any and all costs and expenses including, but not limited to, counsel fees and disbursements that such corporations or their officers, directors or employees may suffer or incur, whether before or after the date hereof, as a result of either (a) the development, management or operation of Roosevelt Island or (b) the performance or non-performance by the division of any of its obligations or duties with respect to Roosevelt Island. All of the provisions of section seventeen of the public officers law which are not inconsistent with this section shall apply to the officers, directors, and employees of such corporations, including the provisions relating to the defense by the attorney general or private counsel of any civil action and the payment of legal costs incurred in connection with the defense of any such action. Any member, officer or employee of such corporations seeking to be saved harmless or indemnified or to claim any other benefits available pursuant to this section or section seventeen of the public officers law shall comply with the procedural requirements of such section seventeen. As used in this section the terms "member", "officer" and "employee" shall include a former member, officer or employee, his estate or judicially appointed personal representative.

2. A notice of claim, served in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-e of the general municipal law, shall be a condition precedent to the commencement of an action against the corporation, its officers, directors and employees. No such action shall be commenced more than one year after it has accrued, except that an action against the corporation for wrongful death shall be commenced within the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred thirteen of the retirement and social security law and any other general, special or local law, the Roosevelt Island operating corporation shall provide to persons employed by the Roosevelt Island operating corporation any retirement, disability, death or other benefits provided or required pursuant to any agreement with a labor union of which its employees are members, and the Roosevelt Island operating corporation is hereby authorized to retroactively or in the future make such contributions as may be necessary to provide such benefits.

4. For purposes of the retirement and social security law, persons employed by the Roosevelt Island operating corporation and to whom the Roosevelt Island operating corporation provides any retirement, disability, death and other benefits required pursuant to any agreement with a labor union of which its employees are members, shall be deemed not to be employees of the Roosevelt Island operating corporation. Such other persons who are employees of the Roosevelt Island operating corporation as of the effective date of this title shall be eligible to receive credit under the retirement and social security law for previous service with the entities, or where applicable, their subsidiaries, made subject to section seventeen of the public officers law by subdivision one of this section.