§ 15-5-201 — Definitions

(a) As used in this article:
(i) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, § 3.
(ii) "Benefit unit" means each of the following:
(A) Each paid fireman;
(B) Each person receiving a monthly pension
under W.S. 15-5-204;
(C) Each person receiving a disability pension
under W.S. 15-5-204;
(D) Each account of a deceased or retired
fireman from which monthly pension payments are being made to
any person under W.S. 15-5-205 and 15-5-206.
(iii) "Compensation Act" means the Wyoming Worker's
Compensation Act, W.S. 27-14-101 through 27-14-902;
(iv) "Fireman first class" means the highest salary
grade which a fireman can obtain within his department without
any promotion in rank. The term specifically excludes chiefs,
officers, engineers, fire equipment operators, secretaries,
mechanics, inspectors and all other specialized grades, ratings
and ranks;
(v) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, § 3.
(vi) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, § 3.
(vii) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 90, § 3.
(viii) "Injured, disabled or killed in the line of
duty" means that a paid or volunteer fireman is injured or
disabled when he meets with bodily or mental injury while
actually engaged in the repair, upkeep or care of fire
apparatus, or in the performance of duties prescribed in the
maintenance and operation of a fire department;
(ix) "Maximum monthly salary of a fireman first
class" means the gross monthly salary of a fireman first class,
including the greatest longevity or additional monthly salary
increase for length of service, as established by the city, town
or county which employed the retired, disabled or deceased paid
fireman, and including contributions required by W.S. 15-5-203;
(x) "Minimum annual cash requirement of the account"
means the amount of cash needed to meet the known required
disbursements from the firemen's pension account during the
upcoming fiscal year, reduced by the anticipated cash account
balance of the firemen's pension account on hand at the end of
the current fiscal year;
(xi) "Paid fireman" means an individual regularly
employed and paid by any city, town, county or fire protection
district for devoting his entire time of employment to the care,
operation and requirements of a regularly constituted fire
department;
(xii) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, § 3.
(xiii) "Twenty years active service" means that an
individual's principal means of livelihood for twenty (20) years
has been employment by one (1) or more cities, towns, counties
or fire protection districts as a member of a regularly
constituted fire department and that the individual has been
carried on the payrolls thereof for that period of time;
(xiv) "Volunteer fireman" means an individual who
devotes less than his entire time of employment to, but who is
carried on the rolls of a regularly constituted fire department,
the members of which may be partly paid and partly volunteer.
Payment of compensation for services actually rendered by
enrolled volunteers does not take them out of this
classification. Any individual who volunteers assistance but is
not regularly enrolled as a fireman is not a volunteer within
the meaning of this article;
(xv) "Board" means the retirement board created by
W.S. 9-3-404;
(xvi) "Employer" means any incorporated municipality,
county or fire protection district offering fire protection or
public safety services employing one (1) or more members;
(xvii) "Surviving spouse" shall not include any
person who was first married to a paid fireman or retired
fireman on or after April 1, 2022.