New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 2 - DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT AND CONTROL › Chapter IV - Miscellaneous Rules › Part 150 - Service Award Programs For Volunteer Ambulance Workers › Section 150.6 - Service credit

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				Each ambulance company for which a service award program is adopted shall
				maintain at all times for each volunteer ambulance worker of the company,
				whether or not a participant in the program, a record of the activities
				performed and points granted toward a year of ambulance service. The
				administrator may prescribe the form and manner of compiling and maintaining
				such records.
(b) On or before
				February 1st of each year, each ambulance company for which a service award
				program is adopted shall, except as provided in subdivision (f) of this
				section, prepare and submit to the governing board of the sponsor a list of all
				the volunteer ambulance workers of the company and which identifies all those
				who have qualified for credit for a year of ambulance service during the
				preceding calendar year. Such list shall be certified under oath by the
				president, secretary and chief or comparable officers of the ambulance company
				and shall be accompanied by such membership records or records of point
				accumulations as the governing board may require to substantiate the accuracy
				of the list.
(c) On or before March
				1st of each year, the governing board of the sponsor shall review and approve
				each such certified list of volunteer ambulance workers and each volunteer
				ambulance worker thereon identified as having qualified for credit for a year
				of ambulance service during the preceding calendar year shall be credited with
				a year of ambulance service. Upon approval, the governing board shall cause the
				return of each list to the appropriate ambulance company and each ambulance
				company shall, immediately upon receipt, post the list in a conspicuous place
				at its principal headquarters for at least 30 days and maintain a record of the
				date on which the list is posted.
(d) Not later than 30 days after the approved
				list is posted by the ambulance company, any volunteer ambulance worker whose
				name does not appear on the list as having qualified for credit for a year of
				ambulance service may appeal to the governing board of the sponsor to have his
				or her name added to the list. The appeal shall be in writing and mailed to the
				clerk or secretary of the governing board of the sponsor. The governing board
				shall investigate all appeals and upon finding that such a volunteer ambulance
				worker has qualified for a year of ambulance service for the preceding calendar
				year, shall order the volunteer ambulance worker to be identified as having
				qualified for a year of ambulance service on the approved list.
(e) On or before May 1st of each year, the
				governing board of the sponsor shall cause a certified copy of the approved
				list to be filed with the administrator, accompanied by a payment in an amount
				equal to the amount of the sponsor's contribution to the program on behalf of
				each participant who is credited with a year of ambulance service times the
				number of participants credited with a year of ambulance service on the list,
				less the total amount of forfeitures set forth on the report provided to the
				sponsor for the preceding calendar year pursuant to section
				150.12(a) 
				of this Part.
(f) Any volunteer
				ambulance worker not wishing to participate in the service award program may
				request omission or deletion of his or her name from the list to be prepared or
				prepared by the ambulance company pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section
				at any time prior to the approval of the list by the governing board of the
				sponsor pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section. Such request shall be in
				writing, shall be filed with the chief executive officer of the ambulance
				company or political subdivision having custody of the list, and shall remain
				effective until withdrawn in the same manner. During the period such a request
				remains effective, a volunteer ambulance worker shall not earn service credit,
				nor be entitled to a contribution to, nor a distribution from, the
				program.
(g) Notwithstanding the
				provisions of subdivisions (b) through (e) of this section, in the case of the
				service award program which was in effect at any time during calendar year
				1994, ambulance companies and the governing boards of sponsors shall comply
				with the following procedures:
(1) If the
				governing board of a sponsor has not approved a certified list of volunteer
				ambulance workers qualified for credit for a year of ambulance service rendered
				during 1994 in substantial compliance with the procedures set forth in
				subdivisions (b) through (d) of this section, excepting the dates as set forth
				therein, the ambulance company and the governing board of the sponsor shall
				comply with the procedures set forth in subdivisions (b) through (d), and the
				filing and payment requirements of subdivision (e) of this section, in the
				following manner:
(i) Not later than 30 days
				after the ambulance company receives a copy of the adoption agreement pursuant
				to section
				150.4  of this
				Part, the ambulance company shall submit to the governing board of the sponsor
				the list required by subdivision (b) of this section.
(ii) Not later than 30 days after receipt of
				such list, the governing board of the sponsor shall review, approved and return
				the list to the ambulance company, and the ambulance company shall post the
				approved list, as required by subdivision (c) of this section.
(iii) Not later than 30 days after the
				approved list is posted by the ambulance company, any volunteer ambulance
				worker whose name does not appear on the list as having qualified for credit
				for a year of ambulance service may appeal to the governing board of the
				sponsor, and the governing board of the sponsor shall investigate and determine
				such appeals, as required by subdivision (d) of this section.
(iv) Not later than 30 days after the last
				day for a volunteer ambulance worker to appeal to the governing board of the
				sponsor, the governing board of the sponsor shall comply with the filing and
				payment requirements of subdivision (e) of this section.