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SECTION 11
Temporary partial disability benefits
Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit (VOL) CHAPTER 64-A, ARTICLE 2
§ 11. Temporary partial disability benefits. In the case of temporary
partial disability the volunteer firefighter 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 ninety-five dollars for each
week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured
in the line of duty on or after January first, nineteen hundred
seventy-eight to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
eighty-three, such payment shall be one hundred five dollars for each
week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured
in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred
eighty-three to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
eighty-four, such payment shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars for
each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is
injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred
eighty-four to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
eighty-five, such payment shall be one hundred thirty-five dollars for
each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is
injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred
eighty-five to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety
such payment shall be one hundred fifty dollars for each week, provided,
however, that when the volunteer firefighter 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 firefighter 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, provided, however, that when the volunteer
firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July first,
nineteen hundred ninety-two such payment 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 sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents for each week, provided,
however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of
duty on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight to and
including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-three, such payment
shall be seventy dollars for each week, provided, however, that when the
volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July
first, nineteen hundred eighty-three to and including June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred eighty-four, such payment shall be eighty-three dollars
and thirty-three cents for each week, provided, however, that when the
volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July
first, nineteen hundred eighty-four to and including June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred eighty-five, such payment shall be ninety dollars for
each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is
injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred
eighty-five to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety
such payment shall be one hundred dollars for each week, provided,
however, that when the volunteer firefighter 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 firefighter 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 firefighter 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 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 firefighter 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.