(a) The State Fire Administrator shall, within available appropriations, pay five hundred dollars to each volunteer fire company for each call to which it responds on (1) a limited access highway, designated pursuant to section 13b-27 , (2) the section of the highway known as the Berlin Turnpike, which begins at the end of the existing Wilbur Cross Parkway in the town of Meriden and extends northerly along Route 15 to the beginning of a section of limited access highway in the town of Wethersfield known as South Meadows Expressway, or (3) the section of Route 8 in the town of Beacon Falls which is within the boundaries of the Naugatuck State Forest. (b) No municipality that provides funds to a volunteer fire company may reduce such funding based on the payments that such company receives, or is anticipated to receive, under subsection (a) of this section. *Note: On and after July 1, 2025, this section, as amended by section 8 of public act 24-136, is to read as follows: “Sec. 7-323v. Payments to volunteer fire companies for providing services on limited access highways or on sections of the Berlin Turnpike or Route 8. (a) The Division of Fire Services Administration within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall, within available appropriations, pay five hundred dollars to each volunteer fire company for each call to which it responds on (1) a limited access highway, designated pursuant to section 13b-27, (2) the section of the highway known as the Berlin Turnpike, which begins at the end of the existing Wilbur Cross Parkway in the town of Meriden and extends northerly along Route 15 to the beginning of a section of limited access highway in the town of Wethersfield known as South Meadows Expressway, or (3) the section of Route 8 in the town of Beacon Falls which is within the boundaries of the Naugatuck State Forest. (b) No municipality that provides funds to a volunteer fire company may reduce such funding based on the payments that such company receives, or is anticipated to receive, under subsection (a) of this section.”
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