§ 10-14-6.5-7 — Emergency responders remain employees of jurisdiction rendering aid

Indiana § 10-14-6.5-7

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 10: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Art. 14: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
• Ch. 6.5: Interstate Mutual Aid Agreements

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(a) Emergency responders from outside
Indiana rendering mutual aid within Indiana under a mutual aid
agreement authorized by this chapter remain employees and agents of
their respective employers and jurisdictions.
(b) This chapter or a mutual aid agreement entered into under this
chapter does not create an employment relationship between the
jurisdiction requesting aid and the employees and agents of the
jurisdiction rendering aid.
(c) All pension, relief, disability, death benefits, worker's
compensation benefits, and other benefits enjoyed by emergency
responders rendering mutual aid under a mutual aid agreement
authorized by this chapter extend to the services the emergency
responders perform outside their respective jurisdictions, as if those
services had been rendered in their own jurisdiction.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.94-2011, SEC.1.