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SECTION 11
Temporary partial disability benefits
Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit (VAW) CHAPTER 64-B, ARTICLE 2
§ 11. Temporary partial disability benefits. In the case of temporary
partial disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid for each
week during the continuance thereof, as follows:

1. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is seventy-five per
centum, or greater, he or she shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars
for each week, provided, however, that the volunteer ambulance worker is
injured in the line of duty on or after the effective date of this
chapter to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety,
provided, however, that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured
in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety to
and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-one, such payment
shall be two hundred eighty dollars for each week, provided, however,
that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty
on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and including
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall be three
hundred fifty dollars for each week; and provided further that when the
volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after
July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two such payments shall be four
hundred dollars for each week.

2. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is fifty per centum,
or greater, but less than seventy-five per centum, he or she shall be
paid one hundred dollars for each week, provided, however, that the
volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after
the effective date of this chapter to and including June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred ninety, provided, however, that when the volunteer
ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after July first,
nineteen hundred ninety to and including June thirtieth, nineteen
hundred ninety-one, such payment shall be one hundred eighty-six dollars
and seventy-six cents for each week, provided, however, that when the
volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after
July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and including June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall be two hundred
thirty-four dollars and fifty cents for each week; provided, however,
that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty
on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall
be two hundred sixty-eight dollars for each week.

3. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is twenty-five per
centum, or greater, but less than fifty per centum, he or she shall be
paid thirty dollars for each week.

4. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is less than
twenty-five per centum, he or she shall not be paid any weekly benefit.

Temporary partial disability, within the meaning of this section,
shall exist only if the earning capacity of the volunteer ambulance
worker has been temporarily and partially lost as the result of the
injury. The workers' compensation board shall determine the degree of
such disability and such board may reconsider such degree on its own
motion or upon application of any party in interest.