N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 9: Definitions

§ 9. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following

terms shall mean:

1. "World Trade Center rescue" shall mean any activity involving an

employee of a private voluntary hospital that worked rescue operations

under contract with the city of New York under direction of the fire

department of the city of New York, conducted between September eleventh

and September fifteenth, two thousand one inclusive at or in the

vicinity of the World Trade Center site of the September eleventh, two

thousand one terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in the city of

New York, commonly referred to as "Ground Zero".

2. "Vicinity of the World Trade Center site" shall mean anywhere below

a line starting from the Hudson River and Canal Street; east on Canal

Street to Pike Street; south on Pike Street to the East River; and

extending to the lower tip of Manhattan.