Section 100. Definitions

As used in this article:
    1.  "Political  subdivision"  means  a  municipal  corporation, school
  district, district corporation  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services.
    2. "Fire company" means:
    a.  A  volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire
  district fire department, whether or  not  any  such  company  has  been
  incorporated under any general or special law,
    b.  A  fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firemen and
  which was incorporated under or is subject to the provisions of  section
  fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law, which is not
  included  within  paragraph a above, if such corporation is by law under
  the general control of, or recognized as  a  fire  corporation  by,  the
  governing board of a city, town, village or fire district, or
    c.  A  fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firemen and
  which was incorporated under, or established pursuant to the  provisions
  of,  any general or special law, which is not included within paragraphs
  a and b above, if such corporation is by law under the  general  control
  of,  or  recognized  as  a fire corporation by, the governing board of a
  city, town, village, fire district or a district corporation other  than
  a fire district.
    3.  "Voluntary  ambulance service" means a voluntary ambulance service
  as defined in article thirty of the public health law and  possessing  a
  valid  statement of registration or possessing a valid ambulance service
  certificate pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.