N.Y. General Municipal Law § 200-a: Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company or fire department

§ 200-a. Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company

or fire department. When any person has served as a volunteer

firefighter as provided in section two hundred of this article, for less

than five years, and while in good standing in the company or department

of which he or she was a member, has resigned therefrom or has been

transferred from one company to another, he or she shall be entitled to

a certificate as provided in section two hundred two of this article for

the time he or she has actually served. And when any person has served

five years as a volunteer firefighter in one or more companies or

departments, as provided in section two hundred of this article, he or

she shall be deemed an exempt volunteer firefighter and entitled to all

the rights and privileges of an exempt volunteer firefighter.