"Firefighter" means a member who is:
1. Filling a full-time position with a participating public employer, the principal duties of which require emotional stability and physical capacity in protecting the public and controlling and extinguishing fires.
2. The former holder of a position defined in subsection 1 who has:
(a) Earned at least 2 years of creditable service in that position; and
(b) Been promoted or transferred within the chain of command by the same public employer to a position related to protecting the public and controlling and extinguishing fires.
3. The former holder of a position defined in subsection 1 who:
(a) Has earned at least 2 years of creditable service in that position; and
(b) Is employed by a different public employer in a position that would have been eligible under paragraph (b) of subsection 2 had the member remained with the member’s former employer.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1028; A 1977, 1574; 1981, 444; 1987, 370; 2003, 2051)