§ 10. Permanent partial disability benefits. 1. In the case of disability partial in character, but permanent in quality, the volunteer ambulance worker, injured in the line of duty shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars for each week for the period specified in this subdivision, provided, however, that when the volunteer ambulance worker is […]
§ 11. Temporary partial disability benefits. In the case of temporary partial disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid for each week during the continuance thereof, as follows: 1. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is seventy-five per centum, or greater, he or she shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars for […]
§ 11-a. Repair or replacement of prosthetic devices. If, as a result of services performed in line of duty, a volunteer ambulance worker damages or loses any prosthetic devices required to be worn or used by him, whether or not he is injured, such prosthetic device shall be repaired, or replaced in the discretion of […]
§ 11-b. Hazardous exposures. If, as a result of services performed in line of duty, a volunteer ambulance worker is exposed to or comes in contact with any poisons, gases, x-rays, radium, radioactive materials or other potentially harmful substances or matter, the captain or other executive officer of the ambulance department, volunteer ambulance company or […]
§ 11-c. Medical examination of volunteer ambulance workers to detect and identify the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). 1. Whenever a volunteer ambulance worker has been exposed to a significant risk of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while performing services in the line of duty, the executive officer of the ambulance company of which […]
§ 12. Nonschedule adjustments. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any case coming within the provisions of sections ten and eleven of this article, in which the right to benefits has been established and benefits have been paid for not less than three months, in which the continuance of disability cannot be ascertained […]
§ 13. Reclassification of disabilities. Subject to the limitations in section fifty-one of this chapter and in section one hundred twenty-three of the workers’ compensation law as made applicable to this chapter by section fifty-seven of this chapter, the workers’ compensation board may at any time, without regard to the date of the injury, upon […]
§ 14. Previous disability. The fact that a volunteer ambulance worker has suffered previous disability or received benefits therefor as provided in the workers’ compensation law, or this chapter shall not preclude him from benefits for a later injury nor preclude death benefits for death resulting therefrom; provided, however, that a volunteer ambulance worker who […]
§ 15. Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer ambulance workers. A volunteer ambulance worker, who as a result of injury is or may be expected to be totally or partially incapacitated for a remunerative occupation and who, under the direction of the state education department is being rendered fit to engage in a remunerative occupation, may […]
§ 16. Treatment and care. A volunteer ambulance worker injured in line of duty shall be entitled to receive medical, surgical, podiatric, chiropractic, psychological and other attendance and treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicine, crutches, artificial members, devices, appliances, and apparatus, including the replacement and repair thereof, for such period as the nature of the […]
§ 17. Noncitizens. Financial benefits payable under this chapter to noncitizens not residents or about to become nonresidents of the United States or Canada shall be in the same amount as provided for residents, except that dependents in any foreign country shall be limited to surviving spouse and child or children, or, if there be […]
§ 18. Disposition of accrued benefits upon death. Except as otherwise provided in section ten of this article, in the case of the death of an injured volunteer ambulance worker to whom there was due at the time of his death any benefits under the provisions of this chapter, the amount of such benefits shall […]
§ 19. Exclusiveness of remedy. The benefits provided by this chapter shall be the exclusive remedy of a volunteer ambulance worker, or his spouse, parents, dependents, next of kin, executor or administrator, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages, at common law or otherwise, for or on account of an injury to a volunteer ambulance […]
§ 20. Other remedies of volunteer ambulance workers; subrogation. The provisions of section twenty-nine of the workers’ compensation law to the extent that such provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall be applicable as fully as if set forth in this chapter.
§ 21. Assistance to other states, the Dominion of Canada, property ceded to the federal government and to Indian reservations. 1. Whenever an ambulance company or ambulance department in this state shall answer a call to furnish assistance to any political subdivision or territory of another state of the United States or of the Dominion […]
§ 22. Revenues and benefits from sources other than this chapter. 1. Benefits, savings or insurance of the injured or deceased volunteer ambulance worker, or insurance carried for his benefit under subsection (a) of section four thousand two hundred thirty-seven of the insurance law, shall not be considered in determining the benefits to be paid […]
§ 23. Assignments, exemptions. Benefits payable under this article shall not be assigned, released or commuted, except as provided by this chapter, and shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution and attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived. Such benefits […]
§ 24. Waiver agreements. No agreement or release by a volunteer ambulance worker, or, in the case of death, the dependents of a deceased volunteer ambulance worker, to waive his or her right to benefits under this chapter shall be valid, except as provided in section thirty-two of the workers’ compensation law or otherwise in […]
§ 25. Limitation of time. No limitation of time provided in this chapter shall run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor so long as he has no committee or guardian.
§ 5. Coverage. 1. The duties and activities in relation to which benefits shall be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter are: a. Necessary travel to, working at, and necessary travel returning from an accident, alarm of accident, or other duty to which his ambulance department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, either has […]
