2023 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.