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  • (1) "Agency" means:
    • (a) a department, institution, office, college, university, authority, division, board, bureau, commission, council, or other agency of the state;
    • (b) a county, city, town, school district, or special improvement or taxing district; or
    • (c) any other political subdivision.
  • (2) "Compensatory service worker" means a person who performs a public service with or without compensation for an agency as a condition or part of the person's:
    • (a) incarceration;
    • (b) plea;
    • (c) sentence;
    • (d) diversion;
    • (e) probation; or
    • (f) parole.
  • (3)
    • (a) "Volunteer" means a 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) a 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) a compensatory service worker.
    • (c) "Volunteer" includes a juror or potential juror appearing in response to a summons for a trial jury or grand jury.
  • (4) "Volunteer facilitator" means a business or nonprofit organization that, from individuals who have a relationship with the business or nonprofit organization, such as membership or employment, provides volunteers to an agency or facilitates volunteers volunteering with an agency.
  • (5) "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 (5)(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 (5)(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.
  • (6) "Volunteer search and rescue team member" means an individual who:
    • (a) provides services as a volunteer under the supervision of a county sheriff; and
    • (b) at the time the individual provides the services to the county sheriff described in Subsection (6)(a), is:
      • (i) certified as a member of the county sheriff's search and rescue team; and
      • (ii) acting in the capacity of a member of the search and rescue team of the supervising county sheriff.




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