N.Y. Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law § 15: Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer firefighters

§ 15. Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer firefighters. A

volunteer firefighter, 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 or her 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 firefighters 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

firefighter for the purposes of such fund shall be considered an

employee of the political subdivision liable for the payment of benefits

to such volunteer firefighter 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 such subdivision nine in every

case of injury causing death of a volunteer firefighter 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 chapter.