§ 219-e. Participation, vesting and service credit. 1. A volunteer\nambulance worker must be eligible to participate in any service award\nprogram provided under this article if the volunteer ambulance worker\nhas reached the age of eighteen and has completed at least one year of\nambulance service.\n 2. A participant shall have a nonforfeitable right to a service award\nupon completing five years of ambulance service, provided, however, that\na sponsor may reduce the number of years of ambulance service required\nto obtain a nonforfeitable right to a service award. Any amounts\nattributable to forfeiture of a participant's service award shall be\nused to reduce contributions for other service award program\nparticipants and shall not in any case be used to increase benefits for\nother participants. The preceding shall not preclude amendment of a\nservice award program to provide for an increase in benefits.\n 3. A year of ambulance service shall be credited under a service award\nprogram for each calendar year, beginning with the year in which the\nprogram is adopted, in which a volunteer ambulance worker accumulates at\nleast fifty points. Except as provided in subdivision five of this\nsection and subdivision eight of section two hundred nineteen-d of this\narticle, points shall be granted for activities performed after the\neffective date of the program in accordance with a system adopted by the\nsponsor which shall be applied on a consistent and uniform basis. Such\nsystem shall provide that points shall be granted for activities\ndesignated by the sponsor, which activities shall be selected from the\nfollowing:\n (a) Training courses -- twenty-five points maximum.\n (i) Courses under twenty hours duration -- one point per hour, with a\nmaximum of five points.\n (ii) Courses of twenty to forty-five hours duration -- one point per\nhour for each hour over initial twenty hours, with a maximum of ten\npoints.\n (iii) Courses over forty-five hours duration -- fifteen points per\ncourse.\nFor purposes of this paragraph, the term "training course" shall mean a\ncourse of instruction having a prescribed topic and syllabus. Points for\na training course shall be awarded only upon the successful completion\nof the course and only in the year in which the course is successfully\ncompleted.\n (b) Drills and seminars -- twenty points maximum. One point per\nminimum two hour drill or seminar. For purposes of this paragraph, the\nterm "drill" shall mean a skills practice or skills training session\nrelated to emergency medical service and the term "seminar" shall mean a\nlecture on a topic relating to the emergency medical service.\n (c) Sleep-in or stand-by -- twenty points maximum.\n (i) Sleep-in -- one point each full night.\n (ii) Stand-by -- one point each. A stand-by is defined as line of duty\nactivity of the volunteer ambulance company, lasting for four hours, not\nfalling under one of the other categories. A service award program may\nnot provide points pursuant to this paragraph if the program provides\npoints for tours of duty pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subdivision.\n (d) Tours of duty. A maximum of twenty points may be granted for\nserving tours of duty at a rate equal to no more than one-sixth of a\npoint per hour served as determined by the sponsor. For purposes of this\nparagraph, the term "tour of duty" shall mean a line of duty activity,\nnot falling under one of the other paragraphs of this subdivision,\ninvolving a period of time scheduled or assigned by an ambulance company\nduring which a volunteer ambulance worker is responsible for providing\nemergency medical service or general ambulance service, including\nsleep-ins, stand-bys and backup duty, by reason of being stationed at an\nevent, as part of a rostered duty crew or as otherwise provided by the\nregular procedures of the ambulance company. A sponsor may also define\ntwo or more activities included within the meaning of the term tour of\nd
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