§ 65-06-01 — Volunteer firefighter, emergency or disaster volunteer, community emergency response team member, in training defined

emergency response team member, in training defined.
The term "volunteer firefighter" means any active member of an organized volunteer fire
department of this state and any other individual performing services as a volunteer firefighter
for a municipality at the request of the chief or other individual in command of the fire
department of that municipality or of any other officer of that municipality having authority to
demand service as a firefighter. Firefighters who are paid a regular wage or stipend by the
municipality for serving as a firefighter, or whose entire time is devoted to service as a firefighter
for the municipality, for the purpose of this chapter, are not volunteer firefighters.
The term "emergency or disaster volunteer" means any individual serving without
remuneration who is actively engaged in training to qualify as a disaster emergency worker or is
responding to a hazard, emergency disaster, or enemy attack on this country, and who is
registered with the disaster emergency organization of a municipality, which has been officially
recognized by the director of the state division of homeland security and emergency
management.
The term "in training" means only those periods of time, during which an emergency or
disaster volunteer is receiving instruction, or is engaged in exercises or operations, in
preparation for qualification as a disaster emergency worker in the event of a hazard,
emergency, disaster, or enemy attack on this country.
The term "community emergency response team member" means an individual registered
as a community emergency response team member with the appropriate authority. For
purposes of this chapter, a community emergency response team member is acting as a
community emergency response team member only when the individual is receiving approved
community emergency response team training or is acting as a member of a community
emergency response team in an emergency or disaster.
Upon request of the organization, the disaster emergency organization of a municipality
shall provide the organization with its roster of registered community emergency response team
members.
The term "municipality" when used in reference to emergency or disaster volunteer means
the state, cities, counties, municipalities, districts, or any other geographical entity of this state.
This definition is not in any way intended to alter any interpretation or ruling in regard to the use
of the term municipality when used in reference to volunteer firefighters.