§ 9. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
terms shall mean:

1. "World Trade Center rescue" shall mean any activity involving an
employee of a private voluntary hospital that worked rescue operations
under contract with the city of New York under direction of the fire
department of the city of New York, conducted between September eleventh
and September fifteenth, two thousand one inclusive at or in the
vicinity of the World Trade Center site of the September eleventh, two
thousand one terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in the city of
New York, commonly referred to as "Ground Zero".

2. "Vicinity of the World Trade Center site" shall mean anywhere below
a line starting from the Hudson River and Canal Street; east on Canal
Street to Pike Street; south on Pike Street to the East River; and
extending to the lower tip of Manhattan.