2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 2 - Firemen Pensions and Death Benefits › Section 15-5-201 - Definitions.

15-5-201. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, 3.
(ii) "Benefit unit" means each of the following:
(A) Each paid fireman;
(B) Each person receiving a monthly pension under W.S. 15-5-204;
(C) Each person receiving a disability pension under W.S. 15-5-204;
(D) Each account of a deceased or retired fireman from which monthly pension payments are being made to any person under W.S. 15-5-205 and 15-5-206.
(iii) "Compensation Act" means the Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act, W.S. 27-14-101 through 27-14-806;
(iv) "Fireman first class" means the highest salary grade which a fireman can obtain within his department without any promotion in rank. The term specifically excludes chiefs, officers, engineers, fire equipment operators, secretaries, mechanics, inspectors and all other specialized grades, ratings and ranks;
(v) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, 3.
(vi) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, 3.
(vii) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 90, 3.
(viii) "Injured, disabled or killed in the line of duty" means that a paid or volunteer fireman is injured or disabled when he meets with bodily or mental injury while actually engaged in the repair, upkeep or care of fire apparatus, or in the performance of duties prescribed in the maintenance and operation of a fire department;
(ix) "Maximum monthly salary of a fireman first class" means the gross monthly salary of a fireman first class, including the greatest longevity or additional monthly salary increase for length of service, as established by the city, town or county which employed the retired, disabled or deceased paid fireman, and including contributions required by W.S. 15-5-203;
(x) "Minimum annual cash requirement of the account" means the amount of cash needed to meet the known required disbursements from the firemen's pension account during the upcoming fiscal year, reduced by the anticipated cash account balance of the firemen's pension account on hand at the end of the current fiscal year;
(xi) "Paid fireman" means an 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;
(xii) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, 3.
(xiii) "Twenty years active service" means that an individual's principal means of livelihood for twenty (20) years has been employment by one (1) or more cities, towns, counties or fire protection districts as a member of a regularly constituted fire department and that the individual has been carried on the payrolls thereof for that period of time;
(xiv) "Volunteer fireman" means an individual who devotes less than his entire time of employment to, but who is carried on the rolls of a regularly constituted fire department, the members of which may be partly paid and partly volunteer. 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 a fireman is not a volunteer within the meaning of this article;
(xv) "Board" means the retirement board created by W.S. 9-3-404;
(xvi) "Employer" means any incorporated municipality, county or fire protection district offering fire protection or public safety services employing one (1) or more members;
(xvii) "Surviving spouse" shall not include any person who was first married to a paid fireman or retired fireman on or after April 1, 2022.