SECTIONS 50925-50927 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 50925-50927

50925. As used in this article the term "firefighter" shall be
deemed to include only a member of a fire department of cities,
counties, cities and counties, districts or other public or municipal
corporations or political subdivisions, whether the members are
volunteer, partly paid, or fully paid, excepting those whose
principal duties are clerical, such as stenographers, telephone
operators and other workers not engaged in fire-suppression or rescue
operations or the protection or preservation of life or property.
These firefighters shall be regularly employed, or in the case of a
volunteer, shall be regularly enrolled as such.

50926. Whenever any fireman of a city, county, city and county,
district, or other public or municipal corporation or political
subdivision is injured, dies or is disabled from performing his
duties as a fireman by reason of his proceeding to or engaging in a
fire suppression or rescue operation, or the protection or
preservation of life or property, anywhere in this state, including
the local jurisdiction in which he is employed, but is not at the
time acting under the immediate direction of his employer, he or his
dependents, as the case may be, shall be accorded by his employer all
of the same benefits of the Workers' Compensation Law, which he or
they would have received had that fireman been acting under the
immediate direction of his employer. Any injury, disability or death
incurred under the circumstances described in this section shall be
deemed to have arisen out of and been sustained in the course of
employment for purposes of workers' compensation and all other
benefits.

50927. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to:
(a) Require the extension of any benefits to a fireman who at the
time of his injury, death, or disability is acting for compensation
from one other than the city, county, city and county, district, or
other public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of his
primary employment or enrollment.
(b) Require the extension of any benefits to a fireman employed by
a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or
municipal corporation or political subdivision which by charter,
ordinance, or departmental regulation expressly prohibits the
activity giving rise to the injury, disability or death, whether now
in force or hereafter enacted or promulgated.