§ 209-d. Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments
and companies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contract
shall be made by a municipality or fire district whereby the services of
a volunteer fire department or company are to be supplied outside of
such municipality or fire district to provide (1) fire protection, (2)
emergency service in case of accidents, calamities or other emergencies,
or (3) general ambulance service pursuant to the provisions of section
two hundred nine-b of this article, unless such volunteer fire
department or company consents thereto. Any such contract may provide
for the payment of a portion of the consideration expressed therein to
such volunteer fire department or company to be expended for fire
department or company purposes only. If the municipality or fire
district owns all of the fire apparatus to be used in carrying out the
contract, the portion of the consideration which may be paid to such
volunteer fire department or company shall not exceed thirty-five per
centum, unless a greater portion was being so paid on March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred forty-one, under a contract entered into on or before
that date, in which event a not greater portion than was being paid on
said date may be paid to such volunteer fire department or company in
respect to any contract entered into on or after such date. No payments
shall be made to individual volunteer firefighters as compensation for
rendering such outside service.