§ 9. Temporary total disability benefits. In the case of temporary
total disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid three
hundred dollars for each week during the continuance thereof; provided,
however, that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line
of duty on or after the effective date of this chapter to June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety; further provided, that when the
volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after
July first, nineteen hundred ninety to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
ninety-one, said ambulance worker shall receive three hundred forty
dollars per week during the continuance thereof, and further provided,
that when a volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on
or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred ninety-two, said ambulance worker shall receive three
hundred fifty dollars per week during the continuance thereof; provided
further that when a volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of
duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two to June
thirtieth, two thousand twenty-one, such ambulance worker shall be paid
four hundred dollars for each week during the continuance thereof;
provided further that when a volunteer ambulance worker is injured in
the line of duty on or after July first, two thousand twenty-one such
ambulance worker shall be paid six hundred fifty dollars for each week
during the continuance thereof. Temporary total disability, within the
meaning of this section, shall exist only if the earning capacity of the
volunteer ambulance worker has been lost temporarily and totally as the
result of the injury. In case of temporary total disability and
permanent partial disability both resulting from the same injury, if the
temporary total disability continues for a longer period than the number
of weeks set forth in the following schedule, the period of temporary
total disability in excess of such number of weeks shall be added to the
period provided in section ten of this chapter: arm, thirty-two weeks;
leg, forty weeks; hand, thirty-two weeks; foot, thirty-two weeks; ear,
twenty-five weeks; eye, twenty weeks; thumb, twenty-four weeks; first
finger, eighteen weeks; great toe, twelve weeks; second finger, twelve
weeks; third finger, eight weeks, fourth finger, eight weeks; toe other
than great toe, eight weeks. In any case resulting in loss or partial
loss of use of arm, leg, hand, foot, ear, eye, thumb, finger or toe,
where the temporary total disability does not extend beyond the periods
above mentioned for such injury, benefits shall be limited to the
schedule contained in section ten of this chapter.