Section 305. Compensation provided  


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  • The schedule of special compensation for
      civil  defense  volunteers  under  this article is hereby established as
      follows:
        (1) Total disability. In  case  of  total  disability,  sixty-six  and
      two-thirds  per  centum  of  average  weekly  wages  computed  under the
      provisions of section fourteen  shall  be  paid  to  the  civil  defense
      volunteer  during continuance of such disability, up to a maximum period
      of disability of five years from the date of injury.
        (2) Permanent partial disability. In case  of  disability  partial  in
      character  but  permanent  in  quality, such percentage of sixty-six and
      two-thirds per  centum  of  average  weekly  wages  computed  under  the
      provisions  of section fourteen as the percentage of impairment bears to
      total disability, shall be paid to the civil  defense  volunteer  during
      continuance  of such disability, up to a maximum period of disability of
      five years from the date of injury.
        (3)  Medical  care   and   chiropractic   care.   Necessary   medical,
      chiropractic  and other attendance and treatment as set forth in section
      thirteen shall be  provided,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  sections
      thirteen-a  to  thirteen-j  inclusive  and thirteen-l; but the aggregate
      cost of all such attendance and treatment shall not exceed  the  sum  of
      four  thousand  dollars  in  a  case of total disability or of permanent
      partial disability or in a case of total disability with  subsequent  or
      prior  permanent  partial disability, nor one thousand dollars in a case
      of temporary  partial  disability  without  subsequent  or  prior  total
      disability.
        (4)  Death.  Compensation  shall be paid in the amount, and to and for
      the benefit of persons, as follows:
        (a) Actual funeral expenses in a reasonable sum  not  exceeding  seven
      hundred  and  fifty  dollars  to  a  person  or persons and in manner as
      provided in section sixteen subdivision one.
        (b) If there be a surviving dependent wife or dependent husband and no
      surviving child of the deceased under the age of eighteen years, to such
      dependent wife or dependent husband forty  per  centum  of  the  average
      wages  of  the  deceased  as defined in section sixteen subdivision five
      during widowhood or widowerhood; provided that the total amount  payable
      shall  in  no  case  exceed  sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of such
      wages or be paid for any period which, when combined with other benefits
      provided under this article in the event of disability preceding  death,
      shall extend more than five years from the date of injury.
        (c)  If  there  be a surviving dependent wife or dependent husband and
      also a surviving child or children of the  deceased  under  the  age  of
      eighteen  years,  to such dependent wife or dependent husband thirty per
      centum of such  average  wages  of  the  deceased  during  widowhood  or
      widowerhood,  and  the  additional  amount  of twenty per centum of such
      wages for each such child, but not after the child shall  have  attained
      the  age of eighteen years; provided that the total amount payable shall
      in no case exceed sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of such  wages  or
      be paid for any period which, when combined with other benefits provided
      under  this  article  in  the event of disability preceding death, shall
      extend more than five years from the date of injury.
        (d) If there be a surviving child or children of  the  deceased  under
      the  age of eighteen years, but no surviving dependent wife or dependent
      husband, then for the support of each such  child  but  not  after  such
      child  shall  have attained the age of eighteen years, thirty per centum
      of such average wages of the deceased; provided that  the  total  amount
      payable  shall  in no case exceed sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of
      such wages or be paid for a  period  which,  when  combined  with  other
      benefits  provided  under  this  article  in  the  event  of  disability
    
      preceding death, shall extend more than five  years  from  the  date  of
      injury.
        (e)  If  there be no surviving dependent wife or dependent husband and
      no surviving child or children under the age  of  eighteen,  no  payment
      shall  be  made to the special funds established under the provisions of
      section fifteen and twenty-five-a of this chapter  nor  to  any  person,
      except only for funeral expenses as provided in subdivision four of this
      section.