N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 5: Coverage

§ 5. Coverage. 1. The duties and activities in relation to which

benefits shall be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter are:

a. Necessary travel to, working at, and necessary travel returning

from an accident, alarm of accident, or other duty to which his

ambulance department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, either has

responded or would be required or authorized to respond, including

necessary travel during such work or incidental thereto.

b. While, within the state, personally assisting another ambulance

department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, including, after his

services have been duly accepted, necessary travel to and returning from

such work and necessary travel during such work or incidental thereto.

c. While, within the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,

performing duties at the ambulance facility, or elsewhere, directly

related to; (1) the prevention of accidents or other disasters, or (2)

the delivery of emergency health care.

d. While, within this country or in Canada and pursuant to orders or

authorization, instructing or being instructed in ambulance duties,

attending a training school or course of instruction for ambulance

workers, or attending or participating in any noncompetitive training

program, including necessary travel directly connected therewith.

e. While, within the state, any adjoining state or in Canada and

pursuant to orders or authorization, attending or participating in any

drill, parade, funeral, inspection or review in which his ambulance

department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, is engaged,

including necessary travel directly connected therewith.

f. While, within the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,

attending or working at meetings of his ambulance department or

ambulance company, or any organized unit thereof, at the ambulance

facility or other regular or special headquarters of the department,

company or unit, including necessary travel directly connected therewith

other than travel to or returning from such meetings.

g. While, within the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,

working in connection with the construction, testing, inspection, repair

or maintenance of (1) the ambulance facility and the fixtures,

furnishings and equipment thereof, and (2) the ambulance vehicles,

ambulance apparatus and equipment used by the ambulance department,

ambulance company, or other unit thereof, including necessary travel

directly connected therewith other than travel to or returning from such

work.

h. While, within the state, any adjoining state or in Canada and

pursuant to orders or authorization, practicing for, or participating as

a contestant or an official in, any competitive tournament, contest or

public exhibition conducted for ambulance workers which is intended to

promote the efficiency of the ambulance department, ambulance company or

any unit thereof, including necessary travel directly connected

therewith other than travel to and returning from such practice. The

actual rendition of ambulance or other emergency service shall not be

deemed "practicing" within the meaning of this paragraph.

i. While, pursuant to orders or authorization, engaged in the

inspection of ambulance vehicles and ambulance apparatus prior to

delivery under a contract of purchase, or performing duties in relation

to the delivery thereof, including necessary travel directly connected

therewith.

j. While, within this country or Canada and pursuant to orders or

authorization, attending a convention or conference of ambulance workers

or ambulance officers as the authorized delegate or representative of

his ambulance department, ambulance company or any unit thereof,

including necessary travel directly connected therewith.

k. While, within the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,

working in connection with a fund raising activity of his ambulance

company, including necessary travel directly connected therewith, but

shall not include competitive events in which volunteer ambulance

workers are competitors, such as baseball, basketball, football,

bowling, tugs of war, donkey baseball, donkey basketball, boxing,

wrestling, contests between bands or drum corps, or other competitive

events in which volunteer ambulance workers are competitors and which

involve physical exertion on the part of the competitors.

l. While, within the state, performing duties in an area other than

his or her own related to the delivery of emergency health care prior to

the arrival of the ambulance department, ambulance company, or any unit

thereof that is responsible for the provision of such care in that area,

provided that the volunteer ambulance workers' municipality, ambulance

department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, adopts a resolution

granting coverage for such duties. Upon the arrival of the ambulance

department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof responsible for

emergency health care in the area, such volunteer ambulance worker shall

be entitled to benefits in the manner set forth in paragraph b of this

subdivision.

2. Benefits shall not be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter in

the following instances:

a. Work or service rendered by a volunteer ambulance worker while on a

leave of absence pursuant to the general municipal law or pursuant to

any other general, special or local law, charter or ordinance or

pursuant to the constitution, by-laws, rules or regulations applicable

to the ambulance company or ambulance department of which he is a

member.

b. Practice for and participation in any recreational, social, or fund

raising activity other than a fund raising activity for which coverage

is provided under paragraph k of subdivision one of this section.

c. Work or service rendered by a volunteer ambulance worker while

suspended from duty pursuant to any general, special or local law,

charter or ordinance or pursuant to the constitution, by-laws, rules or

regulations applicable to the ambulance company or ambulance department

of which he is a member.

d. Work or service not rendered as a volunteer ambulance worker, but

rendered as an officer, official or employee of a public corporation or

any special district thereof, whether with or without remuneration, even

though by law a requirement for such office, position or employment

shall be that such officer, official or employee shall have been or must

be a volunteer ambulance worker.

e. Work or service not rendered as a volunteer ambulance worker, but

rendered in the course of his employment for a private employer.

f. Work, service or activities in which the volunteer ambulance worker

has been ordered not to participate.

This subdivision shall not be deemed to enumerate all of the

activities engaged in by volunteer ambulance workers for which mandatory

coverage is not provided by this chapter, or to prohibit any of the

activities described in this subdivision, or to prevent the securing of

insurance pursuant to section four thousand two hundred thirty-seven of

the insurance law to cover volunteer ambulance workers when engaged in

activities other than those for which mandatory coverage is provided by

this chapter.