Utah Code 67-20-7.5. Workers’ compensation benefits for a volunteer search and rescue team member

(1)

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 for the purpose of receiving workers’ compensation benefits under:

Terms Used In Utah Code 67-20-7.5

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 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
(a)	Title 34A, Chapter 2, Workers’ Compensation Act; and

(b)	Title 34A, Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act.

(2)

(a)

In accordance with Section 34A-2-105, the workers’ compensation benefits described in Subsection (1) are the exclusive remedy against the county of the supervising county sheriff or an officer, agent, or employee of the county or supervising county sheriff, for the injuries and occupational diseases resulting from the volunteer search and rescue team member’s services for the supervising county sheriff as a volunteer search and rescue team member.

(b)	For purposes of Subsection (2)(a), the county of the supervising county sheriff for whom the volunteer search and rescue team member provides services as a volunteer search and rescue team member is considered an employer of the volunteer search and rescue team member.

(3)

To compute the workers’ compensation benefits for a volunteer search and rescue team member described in Subsection (1), the average weekly wage of the volunteer search and rescue team member for purposes of the volunteer search and rescue team member’s workers’ compensation claim is the average weekly wage of an entry-level deputy sheriff employed by the supervising county sheriff at the time of the industrial accident or occupational disease.

Enacted by Chapter 248, 2011 General Session

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