Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 49 > Chapter 15 > Part 6 - Disability

• Compensation: includes performance-based bonuses and cost-of-living adjustments. See Utah Code 49-15-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Employer: means any department, educational institution, or political subdivision of the state eligible to participate in a government-sponsored retirement system under federal law. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Office: means the Utah State Retirement Office. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Participating employer: means an employer that meets the participation requirements of Section 49-15-201. See Utah Code 49-15-102
• Program: means the Public Employees' Insurance Program created under Chapter 20, Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program Act, or the Public Employees' Long-Term Disability program created under Chapter 21, Public Employees' Long-Term Disability Act. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Public safety service: means employment normally requiring an average of 2,080 hours of regularly scheduled employment per year rendered by a member who is:

  (i)	a law enforcement officer in accordance with Section 53-13-103;

  (ii)	a correctional officer in accordance with Section 53-13-104;

  (iii)

  a special function officer approved in accordance with Sections 49-15-201 and 53-13-105;

  (iv)	a dispatcher who is certified in accordance with Section 53-6-303;

  (v)	a full-time member of the Board of Pardons and Parole created under Section 77-27-2;

  (vi)	the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety; or

  (vii)

  the executive director of the Department of Corrections. See Utah Code 49-15-102 Public safety service employee: means an employee of a participating employer who performs public safety service under this chapter. See Utah Code 49-15-102