§ 30-15-8. Mobile support units.
(a) The governor, or the governor's duly designated representative, is authorized to create
and establish any number of mobile support units that may be necessary to reinforce
disaster organizations in stricken areas with due consideration of the plans of the
federal government and of other states. Mobile support units shall be called to duty
upon orders of the governor and shall perform their functions in any part of the state
or, upon the conditions specified in this section, in other states.
(b)(1) Personnel of mobile support units while on duty, whether within or without the state,
shall:
(i) If they are employees of the state, have the powers, duties, rights, privileges, and
immunities and receive the compensation incidental to their employment;
(ii) If they are employees of a political subdivision of the state, and whether serving
within or without the political subdivision, have the powers, duties, rights, privileges,
and immunities and receive the compensation incidental to their employment; and
(iii) If they are not employees of the state or a political subdivision thereof, be entitled
to compensation by the state at a rate equivalent to the rate of compensation paid
to jurors in state courts, and to the same rights and immunities as are provided by
law for the employees of this state.
(2) All personnel of mobile support units shall, while on duty, be subject to the operational
control of the authority in charge of disaster activities in the area in which they
are serving, and shall be reimbursed for all actual and necessary travel and subsistence
expenses as if they were temporary state employees.
(c) The state shall reimburse a political subdivision for the compensation paid and actual
and necessary travel, subsistence, and maintenance expenses of the employees of a
political subdivision while serving as members of a mobile support unit; and for all
payments for death, disability, or injury of those employees incurred in the course
of such duty; and for all losses of, or damage to, supplies and equipment of such
political subdivision resulting from the operation of that mobile support unit.