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2025 Utah Code
Title 67 - State Officers and Employees
Chapter 20 - Volunteer Government Workers Act
Section 7 - Workers' compensation benefits for a volunteer safety officer.
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UT Code § 67-20-7 (2025)
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67-20-7. Workers' compensation benefits for a volunteer safety officer.
Amended by Chapter 36, 2002 General Session
Amended by Chapter 185, 2002 General Session
Amended by Chapter 250, 2002 General Session
- (1) A volunteer safety officer is considered an employee of an agency that supervises the volunteer safety officer for the purpose of receiving workers' compensation benefits under:
- (a)Title 34A, Chapter 2, Workers' Compensation Act; and
- (b)Title 34A, Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act.
- (2)
- (a) In accordance with Section 34A-2-105, the workers' compensation benefits described in Subsection (1) are the exclusive remedy against the supervising agency, or an officer, agent, or employee of the supervising agency, for all injuries and occupational diseases resulting from the volunteer safety officer's services for the supervising agency as a volunteer safety officer.
- (b) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a), the supervising agency for whom the volunteer safety officer provides services as a volunteer safety officer is considered an employer of the volunteer safety officer.
- (3) To compute the workers' compensation benefits for a volunteer safety officer described in Subsection (1), the average weekly wage of the volunteer safety officer shall be the state's average weekly wage at the time of the industrial accident or occupational disease that is the basis for the volunteer safety officer's worker's compensation claim.
Amended by Chapter 36, 2002 General Session
Amended by Chapter 185, 2002 General Session
Amended by Chapter 250, 2002 General Session
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