2006 New York Code - Specialized Teams.

 
    §  209-bb.    Specialized  teams.    1.  By resolution, after a public
  hearing the governing body of each county, city and town is  authorized,
  respectively,  to  establish,  maintain and supervise municipal-wide and
  inter-municipal specialized teams.
    2. Counties, cities and towns are authorized to appropriate and expend
  such sums as are deemed necessary to establish and maintain  specialized
  teams pursuant to this section.
    3.    Municipalities   and   organizations   that   insure   volunteer
  firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers or municipal employees, as the
  term "employee" is defined under section eighteen of the public officers
  law, may extend such insurance coverage to members of a specialized team
  by resolution.
    4. For the purposes of this section, "specialized  teams"  shall  mean
  any   emergency  team  or  squad  composed  of  volunteer  firefighters,
  volunteer ambulance workers  or  municipal  employees,  who  shall  have
  attained  the minimum level of training or experience to meet qualifying
  standards established by the office of fire prevention and control,  and
  which  is  administered  by  the  state,  a county, city or town for the
  purposes of training for or responding to a man made or natural disaster
  by carrying out any activities which are within  the  relevant  training
  and  expertise of such municipal employees or are authorized pursuant to
  the volunteer firefighters'  benefit  law  or  the  volunteer  ambulance
  workers'  benefit  law  but  which  are  not  normally  provided by such
  entities.