N.Y. General Municipal Law § 209-d: Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments and companies

§ 209-d. Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments

and companies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contract

shall be made by a municipality or fire district whereby the services of

a volunteer fire department or company are to be supplied outside of

such municipality or fire district to provide (1) fire protection, (2)

emergency service in case of accidents, calamities or other emergencies,

or (3) general ambulance service pursuant to the provisions of section

two hundred nine-b of this article, unless such volunteer fire

department or company consents thereto. Any such contract may provide

for the payment of a portion of the consideration expressed therein to

such volunteer fire department or company to be expended for fire

department or company purposes only. If the municipality or fire

district owns all of the fire apparatus to be used in carrying out the

contract, the portion of the consideration which may be paid to such

volunteer fire department or company shall not exceed thirty-five per

centum, unless a greater portion was being so paid on March fifteenth,

nineteen hundred forty-one, under a contract entered into on or before

that date, in which event a not greater portion than was being paid on

said date may be paid to such volunteer fire department or company in

respect to any contract entered into on or after such date. No payments

shall be made to individual volunteer firefighters as compensation for

rendering such outside service.