Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
Volunteer: includes a juror or potential juror appearing in response to a summons for a trial jury or grand jury. See Utah Code 67-20-2
Volunteer facilitator: means a business or nonprofit organization that, from individuals who have a relationship with the business or nonprofit organization, such as membership or employment, provides volunteers to an agency or facilitates volunteers volunteering with an agency. See Utah Code 67-20-2
Volunteer safety officer: means an individual who:
(a)
provides services as a volunteer under the supervision of an agency; and
(b)
at the time the individual provides the services to the supervising agency described in Subsection (10)(a), the individual is:
(i)
exercising peace officer authority as provided in Section 53-13-102; or
(ii)
if the supervising agency described in Subsection (10)(a) is a fire department:
(A)
on the rolls of the supervising agency as a firefighter;
(B)
not regularly employed as a firefighter by the supervising agency; and
(C)
acting in a capacity that includes the responsibility for the extinguishment of fire. See Utah Code 67-20-2
Volunteer search and rescue team member: means an individual who:
(a)
provides services as a volunteer under the supervision of a county sheriff; and
(b)
at the time the individual provides the services to the county sheriff described in Subsection (11)(a), is:
(i)
certified as a member of the county sheriff's search and rescue team; and
(ii)
acting in the capacity of a member of the search and rescue team of the supervising county sheriff. See Utah Code 67-20-2
the operation of a motor vehicle or equipment if the volunteer is properly licensed and authorized to do so; and
(c)
liability protection and indemnification normally afforded a paid government employee.
(2)
(a)
A supervising agency shall provide workers’ compensation benefits for a volunteer safety officer as provided in Section 67-20-7.
(b)
A volunteer safety officer is considered an employee of the supervising agency of the volunteer safety officer for purposes of Subsections (1)(b) and (c).
(3)
(a)
The county of a county sheriff that certifies and supervises a volunteer search and rescue team member shall provide workers’ compensation benefits for the volunteer search and rescue team member as provided in Section 67-20-7.5.
(b)
For purposes of Subsections (1)(b) and (c), a volunteer search and rescue team member is considered an employee of the county of the county sheriff that certifies and supervises the volunteer search and rescue team member.
(4)
A volunteer facilitator is immune from liability for damages or injuries arising out of or related to the volunteer service of a volunteer provided by the volunteer facilitator to an agency, unless:
(a)
an action or omission of the volunteer facilitator is grossly negligent, not made in good faith, or made maliciously, and causes harm to a person or property; or
(b)
the volunteer facilitator fails to exercise due diligence in determining the fitness of a volunteer to provide voluntary service to the agency under circumstances that make the volunteer facilitator’s failure to exercise due diligence grossly negligent, not in good faith, or malicious.
