Allows an authority having jurisdiction over a volunteer fire department or fire company in a county, city, town, village, fire district, or fire protection district to provide volunteer firefighters with a stipend of a nominal fee for responses to calls and for certain standby services; includes volunteer firefighters within the labor law definition of "employee" of a federal, state or municipal government of political subdivision thereof; establishes the volunteer fire service nominal compensation assistance fund.

Statutes affected:
S10597: 205-g general municipal law, 205-g(1) general municipal law, 517 labor law, 517(2) labor law, 41 civil service law, 41(1) civil service law, 201 civil service law, 201(7) civil service law, 612 tax law, 612(c) tax law, 209-d general municipal law, 72-g general municipal law, 176 town law, 176(18) town law, seventy-two-g general municipal law