2023 New York Laws › VAW - Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit › Article 2 - Coverage and Benefits › 5 - Coverage.

§ 5. Coverage.  1.  The  duties  and  activities  in relation to which
  benefits shall be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter are:
a. Necessary travel to, working at,  and  necessary  travel  returning
  from  an  accident,  alarm  of  accident,  or  other  duty  to which his
  ambulance department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, either has
  responded or would be  required  or  authorized  to  respond,  including
  necessary travel during such work or incidental thereto.
b.  While,  within  the  state, personally assisting another ambulance
  department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, including, after his
  services have been duly accepted, necessary travel to and returning from
  such work and necessary travel during such work or incidental thereto.
c. While, within the state and pursuant to  orders  or  authorization,
  performing  duties  at  the  ambulance  facility, or elsewhere, directly
  related to; (1) the prevention of accidents or other disasters,  or  (2)
  the delivery of emergency health care.
d.  While,  within this country or in Canada and pursuant to orders or
  authorization, instructing or  being  instructed  in  ambulance  duties,
  attending  a  training  school  or  course  of instruction for ambulance
  workers, or attending or participating in  any  noncompetitive  training
  program, including necessary travel directly connected therewith.
e.  While,  within  the  state,  any  adjoining state or in Canada and
  pursuant to orders or authorization, attending or participating  in  any
  drill,  parade,  funeral,  inspection  or  review in which his ambulance
  department,  ambulance  company,  or  any  unit  thereof,  is   engaged,
  including necessary travel directly connected therewith.
f.  While,  within  the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,
  attending  or  working  at  meetings  of  his  ambulance  department  or
  ambulance  company,  or  any  organized  unit  thereof, at the ambulance
  facility or other regular or special  headquarters  of  the  department,
  company or unit, including necessary travel directly connected therewith
  other than travel to or returning from such meetings.
g.  While,  within  the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,
  working in connection with the construction, testing, inspection, repair
  or  maintenance  of  (1)  the  ambulance  facility  and  the   fixtures,
  furnishings  and  equipment  thereof,  and  (2)  the ambulance vehicles,
  ambulance apparatus and equipment  used  by  the  ambulance  department,
  ambulance  company,  or  other  unit thereof, including necessary travel
  directly connected therewith other than travel to or returning from such
  work.
h. While, within the state, any  adjoining  state  or  in  Canada  and
  pursuant to orders or authorization, practicing for, or participating as
  a  contestant  or an official in, any competitive tournament, contest or
  public exhibition conducted for ambulance workers which is  intended  to
  promote the efficiency of the ambulance department, ambulance company or
  any   unit   thereof,  including  necessary  travel  directly  connected
  therewith other than travel to and returning  from  such  practice.  The
  actual  rendition  of  ambulance or other emergency service shall not be
  deemed "practicing" within the meaning of this paragraph.
i.  While,  pursuant  to  orders  or  authorization,  engaged  in  the
  inspection  of  ambulance  vehicles  and  ambulance  apparatus  prior to
  delivery under a contract of purchase, or performing duties in  relation
  to  the  delivery thereof, including necessary travel directly connected
  therewith.
j. While, within this country or Canada  and  pursuant  to  orders  or
  authorization, attending a convention or conference of ambulance workers
  or  ambulance  officers  as the authorized delegate or representative of
  his  ambulance  department,  ambulance  company  or  any  unit  thereof,
  including necessary travel directly connected therewith.
k.  While,  within  the state and pursuant to orders or authorization,
  working in connection with a fund  raising  activity  of  his  ambulance
  company,  including  necessary  travel directly connected therewith, but
  shall not  include  competitive  events  in  which  volunteer  ambulance
  workers   are  competitors,  such  as  baseball,  basketball,  football,
  bowling, tugs  of  war,  donkey  baseball,  donkey  basketball,  boxing,
  wrestling,  contests  between  bands or drum corps, or other competitive
  events in which volunteer ambulance workers are  competitors  and  which
  involve physical exertion on the part of the competitors.
l.  While,  within  the state, performing duties in an area other than
  his or her own related to the delivery of emergency health care prior to
  the arrival of the ambulance department, ambulance company, or any  unit
  thereof that is responsible for the provision of such care in that area,
  provided  that  the volunteer ambulance workers' municipality, ambulance
  department, ambulance company, or any unit thereof, adopts a  resolution
  granting  coverage  for  such  duties. Upon the arrival of the ambulance
  department, ambulance company,  or  any  unit  thereof  responsible  for
  emergency health care in the area, such volunteer ambulance worker shall
  be  entitled  to benefits in the manner set forth in paragraph b of this
  subdivision.
2. Benefits shall not be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter in
  the following instances:
a. Work or service rendered by a volunteer ambulance worker while on a
  leave of absence pursuant to the general municipal law  or  pursuant  to
  any  other  general,  special  or  local  law,  charter  or ordinance or
  pursuant to the constitution, by-laws, rules or  regulations  applicable
  to  the  ambulance  company  or  ambulance  department  of which he is a
  member.
b. Practice for and participation in any recreational, social, or fund
  raising activity other than a fund raising activity for  which  coverage
  is provided under paragraph k of subdivision one of this section.
c.  Work  or  service  rendered  by a volunteer ambulance worker while
  suspended from duty pursuant to  any  general,  special  or  local  law,
  charter  or ordinance or pursuant to the constitution, by-laws, rules or
  regulations applicable to the ambulance company or ambulance  department
  of which he is a member.
d.  Work  or service not rendered as a volunteer ambulance worker, but
  rendered as an officer, official or employee of a public corporation  or
  any special district thereof, whether with or without remuneration, even
  though  by  law  a  requirement  for such office, position or employment
  shall be that such officer, official or employee shall have been or must
  be a volunteer ambulance worker.
e. Work or service not rendered as a volunteer ambulance  worker,  but
  rendered in the course of his employment for a private employer.
f. Work, service or activities in which the volunteer ambulance worker
  has been ordered not to participate.
This  subdivision  shall  not  be  deemed  to  enumerate  all  of  the
  activities engaged in by volunteer ambulance workers for which mandatory
  coverage is not provided by this chapter, or  to  prohibit  any  of  the
  activities  described in this subdivision, or to prevent the securing of
  insurance pursuant to section four thousand two hundred thirty-seven  of
  the  insurance  law to cover volunteer ambulance workers when engaged in
  activities other than those for which mandatory coverage is provided  by
  this chapter.