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SECTION 90
References to workers' compensation law
Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit (VAW) CHAPTER 64-B, ARTICLE 5
§ 90. References to workers' compensation law. Where the provisions of
any section or part of any section of the workers' compensation law are
made applicable to this chapter and are incorporated herein by
reference, the following terms used in such provisions of the workers'
compensation law shall have the following meanings when read in
connection with this chapter:

1. "Accident" means "injury" as defined in this chapter.

2. "Dependent husband" means the "surviving spouse" of a female
volunteer ambulance worker, as defined in this chapter.

3. "Employee" means a volunteer ambulance worker who has been or might
be injured in line of duty or who dies or might die from the effects of
such an injury.

4. "Employment" means service of a volunteer ambulance worker in line
of duty.

5. "Employer" means the political subdivision or volunteer ambulance
company liable for payment of financial benefits pursuant to this
chapter.

6. "Injury" means "injury" as defined in this chapter.

7. "Injured worker" means injured volunteer ambulance worker.

8. "Insurance carrier" means "insurance carrier" as defined in this
chapter.

9. "Same employ" means the same ambulance department or ambulance
company, or in the same service for a political subdivision, or district
or area thereof, pursuant to a call for assistance.

10. "Workers' compensation" means the benefits payable to a volunteer
ambulance worker or his dependents pursuant to this chapter, including
medical treatment and care, except when a different meaning obviously is
intended.

Where any such section is so made applicable and is so incorporated,
and there is a reference therein to another section or provision of the
workers' compensation law which also has been made applicable to this
chapter, such reference shall be deemed to include the applicable
section or provision of this chapter if such inclusion is consistent
with the provisions of this chapter.