Section 157. Application of article to volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law

The  following  terms
  used   in   this   article,   unless  inconsistent  with  the  volunteer
  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer  ambulance  workers'  benefit
  law, are hereby enlarged as follows:
    1.  "Employer"  includes any political subdivision liable for benefits
  pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer
  ambulance workers' benefit law.
    2.  "Employee" includes a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance
  worker who has been or might be injured in line of duty or who  dies  or
  might  die  from  such  an  injury.  When  a  political subdivision or a
  district or area thereof is responsible  for  the  payment  of  benefits
  pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer
  ambulance workers' benefit law, it shall be  deemed  the  "employer"  of
  such "employee."
    3.  "Workers' compensation" and "compensation" include the benefits in
  relation  to  volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers
  pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer
  ambulance workers' benefit law.
    4. "This chapter" includes the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and
  the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, except when such a meaning
  is inconsistent with this article.
    5. "Subdivisions one and two of section fifty", as used in section one
  hundred fifty-one of this chapter, includes subdivision nine of  section
  thirty  of  the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and subdivision nine
  of section thirty of the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law.