Section 19. Exclusiveness of remedy  


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  • The benefits provided by this chapter
      shall be the exclusive remedy of a volunteer ambulance  worker,  or  his
      spouse,  parents, dependents, next of kin, executor or administrator, or
      anyone  otherwise  entitled  to  recover  damages,  at  common  law   or
      otherwise,  for  or  on  account  of  an injury to a volunteer ambulance
      worker in line of duty or death resulting from an injury to a  volunteer
      ambulance  worker  in  line  of  duty,  as  against  (1)  the  political
      subdivision or volunteer ambulance company liable  for  the  payment  of
      such  benefits,  (2)  the  political subdivision regularly served by the
      ambulance company of which the volunteer ambulance worker is  a  member,
      whether  or  not  pursuant  to  a  contract for ambulance services, even
      though any such political subdivision is not liable for the  payment  of
      such benefits in the circumstances, and (3) any person or company acting
      under  governmental  or statutory authority in furtherance of the duties
      or activities in relation to which any such injury  resulted;  provided,
      however,  that  the  benefits  provided by this chapter shall not be the
      exclusive remedy as against persons who, in the furtherance of the  same
      duties or activities, are not similarly barred from recourse against the
      volunteer ambulance worker, or his executor or administrator.