2012 New York Consolidated Laws
VOL - Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit
Article 2 - (5 - 25) Coverage and Benefits
11-C*2 - Volunteer firefighters; presumption in certain diseases.

 
    * §  11-c.  Volunteer  firefighters;  presumption in certain diseases.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special
  or local law to the contrary, and for the purposes of this chapter,  any
  condition  of  impairment  of  health  caused  by  diseases of the lung,
  resulting in total  or  partial  disability  or  death  to  a  volunteer
  firefighter,  where  such  volunteer  firefighter  successfully passed a
  physical examination on entry into such service or  subsequent  thereto,
  which  examination  failed  to  reveal  any evidence of such conditions,
  shall be presumptive evidence that such  disability  or  death  (a)  was
  caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by
  such   firefighter's   own  negligence  and  (b)  was  incurred  in  the
  performance and discharge of duty, unless  the  contrary  be  proven  by
  competent evidence.
    * NB Repealed June 30, 2015
    * NB There are 2 § 11-c's