New York Consolidated Laws, Workers' Compensation Law - WKC § 100. Insurance against liability to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers

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.