N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 15: Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer ambulance workers

§ 15. Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer ambulance workers.

A volunteer ambulance worker, who as a result of injury is or may be

expected to be totally or partially incapacitated for a remunerative

occupation and who, under the direction of the state education

department is being rendered fit to engage in a remunerative occupation,

may receive such additional financial benefit necessary for his

rehabilitation as the workers' compensation board shall determine. Not

more than thirty dollars per week of such additional amount shall be

expended for maintenance. Such expense and such of the administrative

expenses of the state education department as are properly assignable to

the expenses of rehabilitating such volunteer ambulance workers shall be

paid out of the vocational rehabilitation fund created pursuant to

subdivision nine of section fifteen of the workers' compensation law.

Any such volunteer ambulance worker for the purposes of such fund shall

be considered an employee of the political subdivision or volunteer

ambulance company liable for the payment of benefits to such volunteer

ambulance worker under this chapter and such "employer" or its insurance

carrier, as the case may be, shall make the same financial contribution

to such fund as required by subdivision nine of section fifteen of the

workers' compensation law in every case of injury causing death of a

volunteer ambulance worker in which there are no persons entitled to

financial benefits under this chapter other than (1) funeral expenses

and (2) the death benefit provided in subdivision two of section seven

of this article.