§ 30. Liability for and payment of benefits. Except as otherwise\nprovided in article five of the workers' compensation law and in section\ntwenty-one of this chapter:\n 1. If at the time of injury the volunteer ambulance worker was a\nmember of an ambulance company of a county, city, town, village or\nambulance district ambulance department, any benefit under this chapter\nshall be a county, city, town, village or ambulance district charge, as\nthe case may be, and any claim therefor shall be audited in the same\nmanner as other claims against the county, city, town, village or\nambulance district and the amount thereof shall be raised and paid in\nthe same manner as other county, city, town, village or ambulance\ndistrict charges.\n 2. If at the time of injury the volunteer ambulance worker was a\nmember of an ambulance company incorporated under the not-for-profit\ncorporation law, or any other law, and located in a city, village, or\nambulance district, protected under a contract by the ambulance\ndepartment or ambulance company of which the volunteer ambulance worker\nwas a member, any benefit under this chapter shall be a city, village or\nambulance district charge, as the case may be, and any claim therefor\nshall be audited in the same manner as other claims against the city,\nvillage or ambulance district and the amount thereof shall be raised and\npaid in the same manner as other city, village or ambulance district\ncharges.\n 3. If at the time of injury the volunteer ambulance worker was a\nmember of a voluntary ambulance service as defined in subdivision three\nof section three thousand one of the public health law, registered\npursuant to the provisions of section three thousand four of the public\nhealth law or certified pursuant to the provisions of section three\nthousand six of the public health law and organized as an unincorporated\nassociation or duly incorporated under the laws of this state not\nprotected under a contract by the county, city, town, village or\nambulance district, any benefit under this chapter shall be a voluntary\nambulance service charge and any claim therefor shall be audited in the\nsame manner as other claims against the voluntary ambulance service and\nthe amount thereof shall be raised and paid in the same manner as other\nvoluntary ambulance service charges. No charge shall be made against a\nvoluntary ambulance service that does not have coverage under this\nchapter.\n 4. If at the time of injury the volunteer ambulance worker was a\nmember of an ambulance company incorporated under the not-for-profit\ncorporation law, or any other law, and located outside of a city,\nvillage or ambulance district any benefit under this chapter shall be a\ntown charge and any claim therefor shall be audited and paid in the same\nmanner as town charges and the amount thereof raised upon the property\nliable to taxation in such outside territory protected by such ambulance\ncompany in the same manner as town charges therein are raised.\n 5. If at the time of injury the volunteer ambulance worker was a\nmember of an ambulance company or ambulance department operating in, or\nmaintained jointly by two or more villages, or two or more towns, or two\nor more ambulance districts, any benefit under this chapter shall be a\ncharge against such villages, towns or ambulance districts, in the\nproportion that the full valuation of taxable real estate in each bears\nto the aggregate full valuation of the taxable real estate of all such\nvillages, towns or ambulance districts and the amount thereof shall be\naudited, raised and paid in the same manner as other village, town or\nambulance district charges. Full valuation shall be determined by\ndividing the assessed valuations of taxable real estate of each such\nvillage, town or ambulance district as shown by the latest completed\nassessment roll of the village, town or ambulance district by the\nequalization rate established by the authorized state agenc
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