N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 23: Assignments, exemptions

§ 23. Assignments, exemptions. Benefits payable under this article

shall not be assigned, released or commuted, except as provided by this

chapter, and shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy,

execution and attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a

debt, which exemption may not be waived. Such benefits shall be paid

only to volunteer ambulance workers or their dependents except as

otherwise provided in this chapter.