N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 157: Application of article to volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law

§ 157. Application of article to volunteer firefighters' benefit law

or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law. The following terms

used in this article, unless inconsistent with the volunteer

firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit

law, are hereby enlarged as follows:

1. "Employer" includes any political subdivision liable for benefits

pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer

ambulance workers' benefit law.

2. "Employee" includes a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance

worker who has been or might be injured in line of duty or who dies or

might die from such an injury. When a political subdivision or a

district or area thereof is responsible for the payment of benefits

pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer

ambulance workers' benefit law, it shall be deemed the "employer" of

such "employee."

3. "Workers' compensation" and "compensation" include the benefits in

relation to volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers

pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer

ambulance workers' benefit law.

4. "This chapter" includes the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and

the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, except when such a meaning

is inconsistent with this article.

5. "Subdivisions one and two of section fifty", as used in section one

hundred fifty-one of this chapter, includes subdivision nine of section

thirty of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and subdivision nine

of section thirty of the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law.