[Adopted 8-8-1932 by L.L. No. 2-1932 (Ch. 119 of the 1971 Code)]
[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Law, insofar as it shall have application in and for the City of Middletown, New York, be and the same is hereby superseded as follows: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.