Section 13-381. Payments to exempt or volunteer firefighters' associations; Queens and Richmond

a.  Each  of  the  following  exempt  or  veteran  volunteer  firefighters'  associations  of  the  boroughs  of Queens and
  Richmond, to wit:
    1. The exempt firemen's association of the town of Newtown,
    2. The exempt firemen's association, fifth ward, borough of Queens,
    3. The veteran volunteer  firemen's  association  of  the  village  of
  Jamaica,
    4. The Woodhaven exempt volunteer firemen's association,
    5. The exempt firemen's association of Flushing,
    6. The veteran firemen's association of Long Island city,
    7. The exempt firemen's association of Long Island city,
    8. The exempt firemen's benevolent association of College Point,
    9.   The  veteran  firemen's  association  of  the  north  shore  fire
  department of Staten Island,
    10. The veteran and exempt  volunteer  firemen's  association  of  the
  Edgewater fire department of Staten Island,
    11.  The  veteran  volunteer firemen's association of Tottenville fire
  department,
    12. The south shore veteran and exempt firemen's association, which on
  and after the first day of January,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-two  shall
  own,  operate and maintain a clubhouse for the benefit of the members of
  such respective associations, shall be  entitled  to  receive  from  and
  shall be paid by the comptroller of the city, in advance of and for each
  year beginning on the first day of January, the sum of forty dollars for
  each bona fide member of such association, plus five hundred dollars, or
  the   sum  of  forty-five  hundred  dollars,  whichever  is  less,  upon
  presenting to the comptroller on or after the  preceding  first  day  of
  November  in  each  year,  a  verified  statement  signed  by  the  duly
  authorized officers of such association which shall set forth the number
  of living bona fide members thereof  on  such  preceding  first  day  of
  November  and  which  shall state further whether or not the association
  owns, operates and maintains a clubhouse for the benefit of its members.
    b. In determining the membership of such associations, only exempt  or
  honorably  discharged  volunteer  firefighters  shall  be  considered as
  members.
    c. The fire commissioner shall set aside annually, from the fines  and
  proceeds  of  suits  for  penalties brought by him or her under the code
  which may be collected or paid in from the boroughs of Queens and Staten
  Island, and from the license fees payable to him or her under  the  code
  which  may  be  collected  or paid in from such boroughs, a sum of money
  sufficient to cover the payments required to be made to  the  exempt  or
  veteran  volunteer firefighters' associations as provided in subdivision
  a of this section.
    d. Upon receipt from the comptroller  of  a  notification  as  to  the
  amounts  required  to  be  paid  in  any  year in order to carry out the
  provisions of subdivision a of this section, the fire commissioner shall
  pay such amounts to the comptroller from the revenues set aside by  such
  commissioner  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision  c  of this
  section.