§ 15-5-402 — Definitions

(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Account" means the firemen's pension account
established by W.S. 15-5-202;
(ii) "Board" means the retirement board established
by W.S. 9-3-404 and includes all the powers and duties
enumerated in W.S. 9-3-401 through 9-3-429;
(iii) "Compensation" means all salary or wages
payable to a member for service including contributions required
by W.S. 15-5-420. For purposes of computing benefits under this
article, compensation shall include only compensation on which
contributions have been paid pursuant to W.S. 15-5-420 and
15-5-421;
(iv) "Credited service" means for any member, service
as an employee;
(v) "Dependent" means a dependent child or dependent
parent;
(vi) "Dependent child" means a person who is
unmarried and either:
(A) Has not attained age eighteen (18); or
(B) Has attained age eighteen (18) but not age
twenty-three (23) and is attending school on a full-time basis;
or
(C) Has attained age eighteen (18) and is
permanently disabled as the result of a disability which began
before he attained age eighteen (18).
(vii) "Disability" means a medically determined
physical or mental impairment which renders the member unable to
function as a paid firefighter and which is reasonably expected
to last at least twelve (12) months;
(viii) "Employee" means any 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;
(ix) "Employer" means any incorporated municipality,
county or fire protection district offering fire protection or
public safety services employing one (1) or more members;
(x) "Final average compensation" means one
thirty-sixth (1/36) of the compensation paid to an employee
during any period of thirty-six (36) consecutive months in his
years of credited service in which his compensation was highest;
(xi) "Inactive member" means a member who:
(A) Has terminated service;
(B) Is not eligible to begin receiving a service
or disability pension; and
(C) Has neither applied for nor received a
refund of his contributions.
(xii) "Member" means an employee whose compensation
is not subject to the federal old-age, survivors and disability
insurance tax and who either is first hired on or after July 1,
1981 or who elects coverage under the provisions of W.S.
15-5-418;
(xiii) "Pension system" means the retirement and
disability plans for employees covered under the provisions of
this article or W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209;
(xiv) "Primary survivor" means any person in the
following order of priority, unless the priority is changed by
the member on a form prescribed by the board and filed with the
board at the time of the member's death:
(A) The surviving spouse; or
(B) If there is no eligible surviving spouse, a
dependent child, or with the survivor's pension divided among
them in equal shares, all such children, including any resulting
from a pregnancy prior to the member's death.
(xv) "Retired member" means any member who has
terminated service, other than an inactive member, who is
eligible to receive a service or disability pension under this
article;
(xvi) "Accumulated contributions" means:
(A) For a member who has a vested right to a
service pension or a member initially employed before July 1,
2018, the member's contributions paid from any source;
(B) For a member who is neither eligible for a
service nor disability pension nor has a vested right to a
service pension and who is initially employed on or after July
1, 2018, only the member's contributions paid by a reduction in
cash salary of the member.