NY Gen Mun L § 200 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 200 - Defining Qualifications of Exempt Volunteer Firefighters.

§  200.  Defining  qualifications of exempt volunteer firefighters. An   exempt volunteer firefighter is hereby declared to be a person who as  a   member  of a volunteer fire company duly organized under the laws of the   state of New York shall have at any time  after  attaining  the  age  of   eighteen  years  faithfully actually performed service in the protection   of  life  and  property  from  fire  within  the  territory  immediately   protected  by  the  company  of which he or she is a member, and while a   bona fide resident therein, for a period of five years, as  provided  in   this  article, or, if such company shall have been sooner disbanded upon   the organization of a paid fire department, for a period of at least one   year and shall also have been a member of such volunteer fire company at   the time it shall have been disbanded; but the limitation of one  year's   service shall not apply to a volunteer firefighter who was a member of a   fire  company  which  was  disbanded  prior  to  January first, nineteen   hundred two. The foregoing residence requirements shall not apply (1) to   a volunteer firefighter who has been duly elected to membership  in  his   or her fire company as a non-resident member residing in territory which   is  afforded  fire  protection  by his or her fire company pursuant to a   contract for fire  protection,  as  authorized  by  paragraph  three  of   subdivision  c  of  section  fourteen  hundred two of the not-for-profit   corporation law or by subdivisions  two  and  three  of  either  section   10-1006  of  the  village  law, section one hundred seventy-six-b of the   town law or section  sixteen-a  of  the  general  city  law,  (2)  to  a   volunteer firefighter whose membership has been duly continued in his or   her  fire  company  as authorized by paragraph three of subdivision c of   section fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law or by   subdivision five of either section 10-1006 of the village  law,  section   one  hundred  seventy-six-b  of the town law or section sixteen-a of the   general city law and (3) to a volunteer firefighter who  has  been  duly   elected to membership as a non-resident as authorized by paragraph three   of  subdivision  c of section fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit   corporation law or by subdivision six of either section 10-1006  of  the   village  law,  section  one  hundred  seventy-six-b  of  the town law or   section sixteen-a of the general city law. The foregoing requirement  of   five  years'  service shall not apply to a volunteer firefighter serving   as such at the time of his or her entry into the military service of the   United States or of one of its allies in world war  II,  or  during  the   period  of  hostilities as defined in subparagraph three or subparagraph   four of paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-five  of  the   civil service law, who, as a result of such military service, shall have   become  incapacitated  for  performing  the  full  duties of a volunteer   firefighter, or to a volunteer firefighter who, as  the  result  of  the   performance  of  his  or  her duties as such, shall have become likewise   incapacitated, but any such volunteer firefighter  shall  be  an  exempt   volunteer  firefighter even though he or she may have served as such for   a lesser period than five years, and he or she shall be  entitled  to  a   certificate  as  provided  in  section  two  hundred two of this article   which, in addition to the  specifications  contained  in  said  section,   shall  set  forth the facts in reference to his or her military service,   if any, as aforesaid and that as a result of such military  service,  or   as  the  result  of  service  as  a volunteer firefighter, he or she was   incapacitated for performing the full duties of a volunteer firefighter.   The term "military service" as used in this section shall mean the  same   as  the  term "military duty" as used in section two hundred forty-three   of the military law, except that it shall relate to service for an  ally   of  the  United  States  in  world  war II as well as to service for the   United States.