209-BB - Specialized teams. - New York Statutes

§ 209-bb. Specialized teams. 1. By resolution, after a public hearing the governing body of each county, city and town is authorized, respectively, to establish, maintain and supervise municipal-wide and inter-municipal specialized teams. 2. Counties, cities and towns are authorized to appropriate and expend such sums as are deemed necessary to establish and maintain specialized teams pursuant to this section. 3. Municipalities and organizations that insure volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers or municipal employees, as the term "employee" is defined under section eighteen of the public officers law, may extend such insurance coverage to members of a specialized team by resolution. 4. For the purposes of this section, "specialized teams" shall mean any emergency team or squad composed of volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers or municipal employees, who shall have attained the minimum level of training or experience to meet qualifying standards established by the office of fire prevention and control, and which is administered by the state, a county, city or town for the purposes of training for or responding to a man made or natural disaster by carrying out any activities which are within the relevant training and expertise of such municipal employees or are authorized pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law but which are not normally provided by such entities.