Section 316. Record of enrollment  


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  • Each local director of civil defense
      shall maintain a record of enrollment of civil  defense  volunteers  who
      are  personnel  of the volunteer agencies sponsored by his local office.
      Each record shall contain the name and address  of  the  volunteer,  the
      name  of  his employer, date of enrollment and authorized classification
      or assignment to duty, including the times of his assigned duty, as well
      as changes in  or  termination  of  enrollment.  Such  record  shall  be
      maintained  in  duplicate  and  the  duplicate records shall be filed in
      separate places for greater security in the event of attack.
        Records of enrollment  shall  be  open  for  inspection  during  usual
      business hours by the chairman or by an officer or employee of the board
      designated  by  the  chairman.  The  local director shall furnish to the
      chairman on request such information in the record of enrollment  as  is
      required for administration of this article.
        In  the  event  of attack, actual or imminent, for which volunteers in
      any part of the area under the jurisdiction  of  a  local  director  are
      mobilized,  the  local  director shall forthwith deliver to the chairman
      one of such duplicate records of enrollment.
        If the civil defense volunteers enrolled by a local office  shall,  in
      accordance  with  a  mutual aid agreement approved by the New York state
      civil defense commission, respond to a request for assistance  from  any
      place,  either  within  or without the state, which has suffered attack,
      and shall perform therein authorized civil  defense  duties,  the  local
      director  shall  forthwith deliver to the chairman one of such duplicate
      records of enrollment.
        The information contained in such record of  enrollment  delivered  to
      the  chairman  shall be prima facie evidence of information on which the
      chairman may rely in paying claims of civil defense volunteers or  their
      dependents  under  this  article; and if such record is not delivered to
      the chairman as required by this section,  the  burden  of  proving  his
      right  to  compensation  under this article in the case of civil defense
      volunteers of the local office shall rest on the claimant.