§ 219-b. Purpose. It is hereby declared that this article is intended to effectuate the objects and purposes of section eighteen of article one of the constitution and that the relationship between the political subdivision liable for payments of service awards under this article and a volunteer ambulance worker entitled to such payments is that […]
§ 219-c. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. “Ambulance company” shall mean a municipal ambulance service or a voluntary ambulance service, but shall not include an ambulance service organized pursuant to section two hundred nine-b of this chapter. 2. “Defined contribution plan” means any service award program that provides to a participant a benefit […]
§ 219-d. Authorization to adopt service award programs. 1. No political subdivision shall be required to adopt a service award program. Any service award program adopted pursuant to this section shall be governed by the provisions of this article. 2. A political subdivision may adopt a service award program for the volunteer ambulance workers of […]
§ 219-e. Participation, vesting and service credit. 1. A volunteer ambulance worker must be eligible to participate in any service award program provided under this article if the volunteer ambulance worker has reached the age of eighteen and has completed at least one year of ambulance service. 2. A participant shall have a nonforfeitable right […]
§ 219-f. Contributions and benefits. 1. The sponsor of a service award program shall contribute to the program a fixed amount of money, as determined by the sponsor, on behalf of each participant who is credited with a year of ambulance service. The minimum contribution shall be one hundred twenty dollars per year of ambulance […]
§ 219-g. Funding. 1. The cost of a service award program shall be a charge against the sponsor. The governing board of the sponsor shall appropriate annually an amount equal to the estimated amount due the service award program during the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made. On or before May first, or […]
§ 219-h. Administration. 1. Service award programs shall be centrally administered by the state comptroller, or the comptroller may enter into one or more of the following contracts: (a) a contract with an administrative service agency or financial organization to serve as program administrator and to perform all or any portion of the functions required […]
§ 219-i. Conversion to defined benefit plan. The sponsor of a service award program adopted pursuant to this article may convert such program into a defined benefit plan authorized by article eleven-AAA of this chapter by adopting a defined benefit service award program in accordance with the procedures set forth in section two hundred nineteen-l […]
