N.Y. General Municipal Law § 100: Definitions

§ 100. Definitions. As used in this article:

1. "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, school

district, district corporation and board of cooperative educational

services.

2. "Fire company" means:

a. A volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire

district fire department, whether or not any such company has been

incorporated under any general or special law,

b. A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters

and which was incorporated under or is subject to the provisions of

section fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law,

which is not included within paragraph a above, if such corporation is

by law under the general control of, or recognized as a fire corporation

by, the governing board of a city, town, village or fire district, or

c. A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters

and which was incorporated under, or established pursuant to the

provisions of, any general or special law, which is not included within

paragraphs a and b above, if such corporation is by law under the

general control of, or recognized as a fire corporation by, the

governing board of a city, town, village, fire district or a district

corporation other than a fire district.

3. "Voluntary ambulance service" means a voluntary ambulance service

as defined in article thirty of the public health law and possessing a

valid statement of registration or possessing a valid ambulance service

certificate pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.