2006 Utah Code - 67-20-2 — Definitions.

     67-20-2.   Definitions.
     As used in this chapter:
     (1) "Agency" means:
     (a) any department, institution, office, college, university, authority, division, board, bureau, commission, council, or other agency of the state;
     (b) any county, city, town, school district, or special improvement or taxing district; or
     (c) any other political subdivision.
     (2) "Compensatory service worker" means:
     (a) any person who has been convicted of a criminal offense;
     (b) any youth who has been adjudged delinquent; or
     (c) any person or youth who:
     (i) has been diverted from the criminal or juvenile justice system; and
     (ii) performs a public service for an agency as a condition of the person or youth's:
     (A) sentence;
     (B) diversion;
     (C) probation; or
     (D) parole.
     (3) (a) "Volunteer" means any person who donates service without pay or other compensation except expenses actually and reasonably incurred as approved by the supervising agency.
     (b) "Volunteer" does not include:
     (i) any person participating in human subjects research to the extent that the participation is governed by federal law or regulation inconsistent with this chapter; or
     (ii) compensatory service workers.
     (c) "Volunteer" includes a juror or potential juror appearing in response to a summons for a trial jury or grand jury.
     (4) "Volunteer safety officer" means an individual who:
     (a) provides services as a volunteer under the supervision of an agency; and
     (b) at the time the individual provides the services to the supervising agency described in Subsection (4)(a), the individual is:
     (i) exercising peace officer authority as provided in Section 53-13-102; or
     (ii) if the supervising agency described in Subsection (4)(a) is a fire department:
     (A) on the rolls of the supervising agency as a firefighter;
     (B) not regularly employed as a firefighter by the supervising agency; and
     (C) acting in a capacity that includes the responsibility for the extinguishment of fire.

Amended by Chapter 36, 2002 General Session