2012 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 106 - Agriculture.
Article 79 - Fire Fighters on Standby Duty.
Section 106-956 - Standby duty.

106-956. Standby duty.

(a) Standby duty is time during which a fire fighter is required to remain within 25 miles of his duty station and be available to return to the duty station on call. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shall provide each fire fighter on standby duty with an electronic paging device that makes the wearer accessible to his duty station.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, for at least two out of 14 consecutive days that a fire fighter is on duty, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shall permit the fire fighter to be more than 25 miles from his duty station so long as the fire fighter gives the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services a telephone number where he can be reached; each month, the days the fire fighter is permitted to be more than 25 miles from his duty station shall include one full weekend. On the days the fire fighter is permitted to be more than 25 miles from his duty station, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may call him only when there is a bona fide emergency. (1985, c. 757, s. 160(a); 1989, c. 727, s. 218(55); 1997-443, s. 11A.119(a); 2011-145, s. 13.25(y), (z).)