N.Y. VAW Law § 15

§ 15. Expense for rehabilitating injured volunteer ambulance workers.\nA volunteer ambulance worker, who as a result of injury is or may be\nexpected to be totally or partially incapacitated for a remunerative\noccupation and who, under the direction of the state education\ndepartment is being rendered fit to engage in a remunerative occupation,\nmay receive such additional financial benefit necessary for his\nrehabilitation as the workers' compensation board shall determine. Not\nmore than thirty dollars per week of such additional amount shall be\nexpended for maintenance. Such expense and such of the administrative\nexpenses of the state education department as are properly assignable to\nthe expenses of rehabilitating such volunteer ambulance workers shall be\npaid out of the vocational rehabilitation fund created pursuant to\nsubdivision nine of section fifteen of the workers' compensation law.\nAny such volunteer ambulance worker for the purposes of such fund shall\nbe considered an employee of the political subdivision or volunteer\nambulance company liable for the payment of benefits to such volunteer\nambulance worker under this chapter and such "employer" or its insurance\ncarrier, as the case may be, shall make the same financial contribution\nto such fund as required by subdivision nine of section fifteen of the\nworkers' compensation law in every case of injury causing death of a\nvolunteer ambulance worker in which there are no persons entitled to\nfinancial benefits under this chapter other than (1) funeral expenses\nand (2) the death benefit provided in subdivision two of section seven\nof this article.\n