Section 160-FFF. Membership in the fund

1. The membership of the fund shall
  be   comprised   of  all  independent  livery  bases.  If  the  workers'
  compensation board or local taxi  and  limousine  commission  revokes  a
  livery  base's  authorization  to  act as an independent livery base, it
  shall cease to be  a  member  of  the  fund  within  thirty  days.  Such
  revocation shall not entitle the livery base to the return of any moneys
  deposited into the fund.
    2.  Each livery base shall be required, as a condition of obtaining or
  retaining any license it receives to operate as a  livery  base  from  a
  local  taxi  and  limousine commission either: (a) to be a member of the
  fund, to submit to the local taxi and limousine commission proof of such
  membership and to maintain such records  as  the  workers'  compensation
  board,  state  department  of motor vehicles or local taxi and limousine
  commission  may  direct  in  order  to  carry  out  the  livery   base's
  responsibilities  under  this article, and as necessary to determine the
  appropriate cost  of  compensation  the  fund  must  provide  under  the
  workers' compensation law; or (b) to present proof to the local taxi and
  limousine commission that it has secured compensation under the workers'
  compensation  law,  to  the extent required of employers, for all livery
  drivers it dispatches.
    3. Each local taxi and limousine commission shall supply the fund  and
  the  workers'  compensation  board,  at  any  such  time  as the fund or
  workers' compensation board requests, a list of all liveries  affiliated
  with each livery base licensed by the commission.
    4.  The fund shall, within seventy-five days of the appointment of the
  fund's board of directors, provide to its members a copy of the proposed
  plan of operation filed with the workers'  compensation  board  and  all
  local  taxi  and  limousine  commissions and shall inform its members of
  their rights and duties pursuant to this article.