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75.060 Status and compensation of firefighters serving outside limits of district or municipality.

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75.060 Status and compensation of firefighters serving outside limits of district or municipality. All municipal firefighters, fire protection district firefighters, and volunteer fire <br>department firemen, full-paid or volunteer, attending and serving at fires or doing fire <br>prevention work outside the corporate limits of a municipality, fire protection district, or <br>volunteer fire department district as provided in KRS 75.050, or area normally served by <br>a volunteer fire department, shall be considered as serving in their regular line of duty as <br>fully as if they were serving within the corporate limits of their own municipality, fire <br>protection district, or area normally served by a volunteer fire department, but full-paid <br>firefighters shall receive no additional compensation and volunteer firemen shall receive <br>only such compensation as may be provided for by ordinance or resolution in such cases, <br>and all such full-paid firefighters and volunteer firemen shall be entitled to all benefits of <br>any pension fund, in the same manner as if the firefighting or fire prevention work had <br>been within the corporate limits of the municipality, or area normally served by a <br>volunteer fire department. Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 164, sec. 11, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 5. -- Created 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 133, sec. 6.