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SECTION 21
Assistance to other states, the Dominion of Canada, property ceded to the federal government and to Indian reservations
Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit (VAW) CHAPTER 64-B, ARTICLE 2
§ 21. Assistance to other states, the Dominion of Canada, property
ceded to the federal government and to Indian reservations. 1. Whenever
an ambulance company or ambulance department in this state shall answer
a call to furnish assistance to any political subdivision or territory
of another state of the United States or of the Dominion of Canada, or
property ceded to the federal government, the provisions of this chapter
shall apply with respect to the volunteer ambulance workers of such
ambulance company or department, while such assistance is being rendered
or while going to or returning from the place from where the assistance
is to be or was rendered, to the same extent and in the same manner as
if such service had been rendered in or for the area regularly served by
such volunteer ambulance workers; provided, however, that there shall be
deducted from any amounts payable under this chapter any amounts
recoverable by or payable to any such volunteer ambulance worker under
the laws applicable in the political subdivision or territory for which
the call for assistance was made.

2. The provisions of this chapter shall apply with respect to
volunteer ambulance workers of ambulance departments and ambulance
companies of other states of the United States and of the Dominion of
Canada who render service in this state in answer to a call for
assistance to the territory regularly served by an ambulance department
or ambulance companies described in subdivisions one to five, inclusive,
of section thirty of this chapter and, for the purposes of determining
liability for benefits under this chapter, any such volunteer ambulance
worker shall be considered as a volunteer member of the ambulance
department or ambulance company of the territory for which service has
been rendered in this state pursuant to a call for assistance; provided
that the laws of the state served by such volunteer ambulance workers,
ambulance departments or ambulance companies, or of the Dominion of
Canada, as the case may be, contain provisions under which benefits are
granted in relation to volunteer ambulance workers of this state who are
killed or injured when rendering service in such other states, or the
Dominion of Canada, as the case may be, in answer to a call for
assistance; provided, however, that there shall be deducted from any
amounts payable under the provisions of this chapter to a volunteer
ambulance worker of such other states or of the Dominion of Canada, any
amounts recoverable by or payable to such volunteer ambulance worker
under the laws of the state served by such volunteer ambulance worker or
of the Dominion of Canada, as the case may be.

3. Whenever an ambulance company or ambulance department in this state
shall answer a call for assistance to be rendered to any part of an
Indian reservation the provisions of this chapter shall apply with
respect to the volunteer ambulance workers of such ambulance company or
department, while such assistance is being rendered or while going to or
returning from the place from where the assistance is to be or was
rendered, to the same extent and in the same manner as if such service
had been rendered in or for the area regularly served by such volunteer
ambulance workers.