N.Y. General Municipal Law § 208-d*2: Compensation during disability

* § 208-d. Compensation during disability. 1. Notwithstanding the

provisions of any general, special or local law, any member of a police

force in a village or town to which the rules and regulations of the

state civil service shall have been extended prior to January first,

nineteen hundred fourteen, who, through no fault or misconduct on his

part is disabled by injuries received in the discharge of his duties, or

who, as a result of illness attributable to the performance of such

duties, shall, when certified to by a duly licensed physician or

physicians designated by the board of trustees of the village or town

board of the town, as the case may be, stating that the said member is

physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of police duty,

be paid by the village or town by which he is employed the full amount

of his regular compensation or wages until his disability arising

therefrom has ceased, or until such time as such physician or physicians

shall certify to the board of trustees of the village or the town board

that said member has recovered and is physically fit to do part time

police duty or that such member is permanently disabled and unfit to

perform any police duty and shall recommend that said member be retired

from the said force as provided by law.

2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary thereto

contained herein or elsewhere, a cause of action shall accrue to the

village or town aforesaid for reimbursement in such sum or sums actually

paid as a salary or wages and/or for medical or hospital treatment, as

against any third party against whom the police officers shall have a

cause of action for the injuries sustained.

* NB There are 3 § 208-d's