[Amended 12-18-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
The third paragraph of § 205 of the
General Municipal Law, insofar as it shall have application in and
for the City of Middletown, New York, be and the same is hereby superseded
as follows:
Any such volunteer fireman who shall receive injuries while
performing his duties as such, while in the firehouse, going to a
fire or working at the fire or returning from the fire, or while officially
engaged in testing or inspecting the apparatus or while engaged as
a member of a Fire Department emergency relief squad in performing
his duties as such, in the firehouse, or at a fire or other place
where emergency relief was required, or going to or returning from
a fire or other place where emergency relief was required so as to
necessitate medical treatment or loss of earnings in his vocation
on account thereof, shall be reimbursed for such sums as are actually
and necessarily paid for medical treatment not exceeding $400. He
shall also be reimbursed for such sums as are actually and necessarily
lost in earnings for the time during which he was actually and necessarily
prevented from following his vocation on account of such injuries,
not exceeding, however, $700. No such claim shall, however, be allowed
unless, within 60 days after receiving such injuries, written notice
thereof be served by mail or otherwise on the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the City, Town Clerk of the town, or the Village Clerk of the Village
in which is maintained the Fire Department of which the claimant is
a member.