2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes Article 4D - Fire Fighters on Standby Duty.

Article 4D.

Fire Fighters on Standby Duty.

§ 113‑60.32.� Definitions.

As used in this Article:

(1)������ "Fire fighter" means an employee of the Division of Forest Resources of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources who engages in fire suppression duties.

(2)������ "Fire suppression duties" means involvement in on‑site fire suppression, participation in Project Fire Team while it is mobilized, Operations Room duty during on‑going fires or when required by high readiness plans, mop‑up activities to secure fire sites, scouting and detecting forest fires, performance of standby duty, and any other activity that directly contributes to the detection, response to, and control of fires. (1985, c. 757, s. 160(a); 1989, c. 727, s. 218(54); 1997‑443, s. 11A.119(a); 2005‑386, s. 1.6.)

 

§ 113‑60.33.� 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 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 Environment and Natural Resources 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 Environment and Natural Resources 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 Environment and Natural Resources 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).)

 

§§ 113‑60.34 through 113‑60.39.� Reserved for future codification purposes.