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N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 30: Revenues or benefits from other sources not to affect compensation

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  1. Workers' Compensation Law
  2. Article 2. Compensation

* § 30. Revenues or benefits from other sources not to affect

compensation. No benefits, savings or insurance of the injured employee,

independent of the provisions of this chapter, shall be considered in

determining the compensation or benefits to be paid under this chapter,

except that (1) in case of the death of an employee of the state, a

municipal corporation or any other political subdivision of the state,

any benefit payable under a pension system or any other statutory

benefit which is not sustained or provided for in whole or in part by

the contribution of the employee, may be applied toward the payment of

the death benefit provided by this chapter; (2) in case of an award of

compensation to a paid firefighter of a fire company or fire department

of a city of less than one million population, or town, village or fire

district any salary or wages paid to, or the cost of any medical

treatment and hospital care provided for, such paid firefighter under

and pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred seven-a of the

general municipal law shall be credited against any award of

compensation to such paid firefighter under this chapter where the

injury occurred or disablement arose on or after May first, nineteen

hundred fifty-one; and (3) in case of an award of compensation to a

member of a police force of any county, city of less than one million

population, town or village, or of any district, agency, board, body or

commission thereof, any salary or wages paid to, or the cost of any

medical treatment or hospital care provided for, such member under and

pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred seven-c of the general

municipal law shall be credited against any award of compensation to

such member under this chapter where the injury occurred or the

disablement arose on or after May first, nineteen hundred sixty-three.

* NB Effective until the first day of the calendar month following

receipt by the comptroller of the election by The Long Island Rail Road

Company

* § 30. Revenues or benefits from other sources not to affect

compensation. No benefits, savings or insurance of the injured employee,

independent of the provisions of this chapter, shall be considered in

determining the compensation or benefits to be paid under this chapter,

except that (1) in case of the death of an employee of the state, a

municipal corporation, any other political subdivision of the state,

including for this purpose The Long Island Rail Road Company, any

benefit payable under a pension system or any other statutory benefit

which is not sustained or provided for in whole or in part by the

contribution of the employee, may be applied toward the payment of the

death benefit provided by this chapter; (2) in case of an award of

compensation to a paid firefighter of a fire company or fire department

of a city of less than one million population, or town, village or fire

district any salary or wages paid to, or the cost of any medical

treatment and hospital care provided for, such paid firefighter under

and pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred seven-a of the

general municipal law shall be credited against any award of

compensation to such paid firefighter under this chapter where the

injury occurred or disablement arose on or after May first, nineteen

hundred fifty-one; and (3) in case of an award of compensation to a

member of a police force of any county, city of less than one million

population, town or village, any district, agency, board, body or

commission thereof, or of The Long Island Rail Road Company, any salary

or wages paid to, or the cost of any medical treatment or hospital care

provided for, such member under and pursuant to the provisions of

section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be

credited against any award of compensation to such member under this

chapter where the injury occurred or the disablement arose on or after

May first, nineteen hundred sixty-three, or in the case of The Long

Island Rail Road Company, on or after the date this section is effective

with respect to members of its police force.

* NB Effective the first day of the calendar month following receipt

by the comptroller of the election by The Long Island Rail Road Company

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