ยง 160-ddd. Use of the fund. Moneys deposited into the fund shall be
used to provide benefits under the workers' compensation law, by
purchase of a policy from the state insurance fund, or from a carrier
licensed to write workers' compensation insurance to the extent
permitted by section three thousand four hundred fifty-one of the
insurance law, for livery drivers dispatched by independent livery
bases, to provide benefits under the workers' compensation law for
deaths of livery drivers arising out of and in the course of providing
covered services, and all injuries arising out of and in the course of
providing covered services either: (1) resulting from a crime against
such livery driver as evidenced by a police report or (2) for the
following conditions: (a) the amputation or loss of an arm, leg, hand,
foot, multiple fingers, index finger, multiple toes, ear, or nose, (b)
paraplegia or quadriplegia, or (c) total and permanent blindness or
deafness. The provisions of the workers' compensation law shall govern
any application for and the receipt of such benefits.