2019 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers
205-C - Payments Pending Controversies Where Volunteer Firefighters Are Killed or Injured.

§  205-c.  Payments pending controversies where volunteer firefighters
  are killed or injured. In order to provide for  the  prompt  payment  of
  benefits  under sections two hundred five and two hundred nine-a of this
  article, and under the workers' compensation law,  where  such  benefits
  are conceded to be due to any person because of the death of or injuries
  to  a  volunteer  firefighter  but  controversy exists as to which city,
  village, town or fire district is liable for the  payment  thereof,  the
  municipalities  and  districts  involved  in  such controversy and their
  insurance carriers, if any, may agree that  any  one  or  more  of  such
  municipalities  or  districts  or  its  insurance  carrier shall pay the
  benefits to, or in relation to, the person conceded to  be  entitled  to
  such   benefits  without  waiting  for  a  final  determination  of  the
  controversy, and may carry out the  provisions  of  such  an  agreement.
  Notwithstanding  any such payment, any party to the agreement may seek a
  final determination of the controversy in the same  manner  as  if  such
  payment  had  not  been made. After a final determination the parties to
  the agreement shall make  any  necessary  and  proper  reimbursement  to
  conform  to  the  determination.  The  term  "insurance carrier" as used
  herein  shall  mean  an  insurance   company,   or   a   county   mutual
  self-insurance  plan  in  accordance with subdivision three-a of section
  fifty of the workers' compensation law,  or  any  plan  which  shall  be
  provided for by law in amendment of or substitution for such a plan.