Section 14-147. Workers' compensation for members of auxiliary police  


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  • a. As
      used in this section, the term "member of the  auxiliary  police"  shall
      mean  and include only a volunteer who is a duly enrolled member in good
      standing of the auxiliary police which the city is authorized to recruit
      by subdivision five of  section  twenty-three  of  the  New  York  state
      defense  emergency  act, as enacted by chapter seven hundred eighty-four
      of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty-one, and who  is  not  within  the
      coverage of the workers' compensation law pursuant to group seventeen of
      subdivision one of section three of the workers' compensation law.
        b.  Pursuant  to  the  authorization  contained  in  group nineteen of
      subdivision one of section three of the workers'  compensation  law  the
      coverage  of  the  workers'  compensation  law is hereby extended to the
      activities of any member of the auxiliary police during any period which
      such member is actually  engaged  in  auxiliary  police  activites  duly
      authorized  by regulation or order issued pursuant to the New York state
      defense emergency act including any such activities as may be prescribed
      by the commissioner of the city pursuant to such  regulation  or  order,
      such  coverage  shall extend to such member of the auxiliary police, but
      only to the extent that such member is not, as to any  such  activities,
      covered by article ten of the workers' compensation law.