N.Y. General Municipal Law § 205-c: Payments pending controversies where volunteer firefighters are killed or injured

§ 205-c. Payments pending controversies where volunteer firefighters

are killed or injured. In order to provide for the prompt payment of

benefits under sections two hundred five and two hundred nine-a of this

article, and under the workers' compensation law, where such benefits

are conceded to be due to any person because of the death of or injuries

to a volunteer firefighter but controversy exists as to which city,

village, town or fire district is liable for the payment thereof, the

municipalities and districts involved in such controversy and their

insurance carriers, if any, may agree that any one or more of such

municipalities or districts or its insurance carrier shall pay the

benefits to, or in relation to, the person conceded to be entitled to

such benefits without waiting for a final determination of the

controversy, and may carry out the provisions of such an agreement.

Notwithstanding any such payment, any party to the agreement may seek a

final determination of the controversy in the same manner as if such

payment had not been made. After a final determination the parties to

the agreement shall make any necessary and proper reimbursement to

conform to the determination. The term "insurance carrier" as used

herein shall mean an insurance company, or a county mutual

self-insurance plan in accordance with subdivision three-a of section

fifty of the workers' compensation law, or any plan which shall be

provided for by law in amendment of or substitution for such a plan.