N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 16: Treatment and care

§ 16. Treatment and care. A volunteer ambulance worker injured in line

of duty shall be entitled to receive medical, surgical, podiatric,

chiropractic, psychological and other attendance and treatment, nurse

and hospital service, medicine, crutches, artificial members, devices,

appliances, and apparatus, including the replacement and repair thereof,

for such period as the nature of the injury or the process of recovery

may require and the political subdivision or volunteer ambulance company

liable for the payment of benefits to the volunteer ambulance worker

under this chapter because of such injury shall be liable therefor and

the cost thereof shall be audited, raised and paid as provided in

section thirty of this chapter. The provisions of sections thirteen to

thirteen-m, both inclusive, and sections nineteen to nineteen-b, both

inclusive, of the workers' compensation law, to the extent that such

provisions are not inconsistent with this chapter, shall be applicable

in relation to any injured volunteer ambulance worker, political

subdivision and third persons as fully as if set forth in this chapter.