Section 21. Assistance to other states, the Dominion of Canada, property ceded to the federal government and to Indian reservations  


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  • 1.  Whenever
      an  ambulance company or ambulance department in this state shall answer
      a call to furnish assistance to any political subdivision  or  territory
      of  another  state of the United States or of the Dominion of Canada, or
      property ceded to the federal government, the provisions of this chapter
      shall apply with respect to the  volunteer  ambulance  workers  of  such
      ambulance company or department, while such assistance is being rendered
      or  while going to or returning from the place from where the assistance
      is to be or was rendered, to the same extent and in the same  manner  as
      if such service had been rendered in or for the area regularly served by
      such volunteer ambulance workers; provided, however, that there shall be
      deducted  from  any  amounts  payable  under  this  chapter  any amounts
      recoverable by or payable to any such volunteer ambulance  worker  under
      the  laws applicable in the political subdivision or territory for which
      the call for assistance was made.
        2. The  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  apply  with  respect  to
      volunteer  ambulance  workers  of  ambulance  departments  and ambulance
      companies of other states of the United States and of  the  Dominion  of
      Canada  who  render  service  in  this  state  in  answer  to a call for
      assistance to the territory regularly served by an ambulance  department
      or ambulance companies described in subdivisions one to five, inclusive,
      of  section  thirty of this chapter and, for the purposes of determining
      liability for benefits under this chapter, any such volunteer  ambulance
      worker  shall  be  considered  as  a  volunteer  member of the ambulance
      department or ambulance company of the territory for which  service  has
      been  rendered in this state pursuant to a call for assistance; provided
      that the laws of the state served by such volunteer  ambulance  workers,
      ambulance  departments  or  ambulance  companies,  or of the Dominion of
      Canada, as the case may be, contain provisions under which benefits  are
      granted in relation to volunteer ambulance workers of this state who are
      killed  or  injured  when rendering service in such other states, or the
      Dominion of Canada, as the  case  may  be,  in  answer  to  a  call  for
      assistance;  provided,  however,  that  there shall be deducted from any
      amounts payable under the provisions of  this  chapter  to  a  volunteer
      ambulance  worker of such other states or of the Dominion of Canada, any
      amounts recoverable by or payable to  such  volunteer  ambulance  worker
      under the laws of the state served by such volunteer ambulance worker or
      of the Dominion of Canada, as the case may be.
        3. Whenever an ambulance company or ambulance department in this state
      shall  answer  a  call  for  assistance to be rendered to any part of an
      Indian reservation the provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  apply  with
      respect  to the volunteer ambulance workers of such ambulance company or
      department, while such assistance is being rendered or while going to or
      returning from the place from where the  assistance  is  to  be  or  was
      rendered,  to  the same extent and in the same manner as if such service
      had been rendered in or for the area regularly served by such  volunteer
      ambulance workers.