§ 35-9-616 — Definitions

Wyoming § 35-9-616

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 9: FIRE PROTECTION
• Art. 6: VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER, EMT AND SEARCH AND RESCUE

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Account" or "pension account" means the
volunteer firefighter, EMT and search and rescue pension account
created pursuant to W.S. 35-9-617(a);
(ii) "Board" means the volunteer firefighter, EMT and
search and rescue pension account board created pursuant to W.S.
35-9-623(a);
(iii) "Children" means all natural children and
adopted children of the participating member, born or conceived
at the time of his death or retirement;
(iv) "Eligible retirement plan" means as defined in
W.S. 9-3-402(a)(xxvii);
(v) "Participating member" means any volunteer
firefighter, volunteer EMT or volunteer search and rescue person
for whom payments are received by the volunteer firefighter, EMT
and search and rescue pension account as prescribed in W.S. 35-
9-621(e);
(vi) "Rollover contribution" means as defined in W.S.
9-3-402(a)(xxviii);
(vii) "Spouse" means the lawful spouse of a
participating member who was married to the volunteer
firefighter, volunteer EMT or volunteer search and rescue person
at the time of the volunteer's entry into the account, or who
although married after the date of entry, is recognized as the
spouse covered by the benefits of the account as a result of
special action of the board;
(viii) "Volunteer emergency medical technician" or
"EMT" means as defined by W.S. 33-36-102(a)(x), and a person who
performs EMT services as an attendant with a state licensed
ambulance service and who devotes less than his entire time of
employment to, but is carried on the rolls of, a regularly
constituted Wyoming ambulance service, the members of which may
be partly paid and partly volunteer. Persons performing EMT
services for an industrial ambulance service as defined in W.S.
33-36-102(a)(vi) or a privately owned, for profit ambulance
service shall not be considered a volunteer emergency medical
technician or EMT. 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 an EMT is not a
volunteer within the meaning of this chapter;
(ix) A "volunteer fire department" means any duly
constituted and organized firefighting unit:
(A) Recognized by the appropriate local
government with jurisdiction of the area the unit services and
which provides fire protection services to the community as a
whole pursuant to a contract or agreement with, or as sponsored
by, a governmental entity;
(B) Operating under duly adopted bylaws;
(C) All or a portion of the members of which are
volunteers;
(D) Holding monthly meetings to conduct business
and training; and
(E) The membership of which is not comprised
exclusively of employees of a sponsoring nongovernmental entity.
(x) "Volunteer firefighter" or "firefighter" means
any individual who may or may not receive compensation for
services rendered as a volunteer firefighter and who:
(A) Is carried on the regular rolls of, but
devotes less than his entire time of employment to, activities
of a volunteer fire department, all or a portion of the members
of which are volunteer; and
(B) During the course of any one (1) year,
attends not less than fifty percent (50%) of the monthly
volunteer fire department meetings.
(xi) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 83, § 2.
(xii) "County search and rescue organization" means a
search and rescue operation acting under the coordination of a
county sheriff pursuant to W.S. 18-3-609(a)(iii) that:
(A) Has adopted and filed bylaws with the county
clerk for the county in which the organization is located; and
(B) Holds not less than two (2) meetings per
month and requires each volunteer search and rescue person to
attend not less than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of
meetings held each month.
(xiii) "Volunteer search and rescue person" or
"search and rescue person" means any individual who:
(A) Is engaged in search and rescue operations
with a county search and rescue organization;
(B) Is carried on the regular rolls of, but
devotes less than the individual's entire time of employment to,
activities of a county search and rescue organization; and
(C) May or may not receive compensation for
services rendered as a member of a county search and rescue
organization.