35-1406 – Employee; provide written statement; contents.
35-1406. Employee; provide written statement; contents. At an employer’s request, an employee, acting as a volunteer emergency responder, who is absent from or reports late to his or her place of employment in order to respond to an emergency shall provide his or her employer, within seven days of such request, a written statement signed […]
35-1204 – Mutual finance organization; creation by agreement; tax levy.
35-1204. Mutual finance organization; creation by agreement; tax levy. (1) A mutual finance organization may be created by agreement among its members pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act or the Joint Public Agency Act. The agreement shall: (a) Have a duration of three years; (b) Require that each member of the mutual finance organization levy […]
35-1205 – Distributions from fund; qualifications.
35-1205. Distributions from fund; qualifications. (1) Any rural or suburban fire protection district which contains within its boundaries (a) an assumed population of thirty thousand or more or (b) at least eighty percent of the assumed population of any one county which is contained in whole or in part within the district residing outside the […]
35-1206 – Distributions from fund; amount; disqualification; when.
35-1206. Distributions from fund; amount; disqualification; when. (1)(a) Rural and suburban fire protection districts or mutual finance organizations which qualify for assistance under section 35-1205 shall receive ten dollars times the assumed population of the fire protection district or mutual finance organization as calculated in subsection (3) of such section plus the population of any […]
35-1207 – Application for distribution; financial information required; State Treasurer; duties.
35-1207. Application for distribution; financial information required; State Treasurer; duties. (1) Any rural or suburban fire protection district or mutual finance organization seeking funds pursuant to the Mutual Finance Assistance Act shall submit an application and any forms required by the State Treasurer. Such application and forms shall be submitted to the State Treasurer by […]
35-1301 – Act, how cited.
35-1301. Act, how cited. Sections 35-1301 to 35-1330 shall be known and may be cited as the Volunteer Emergency Responders Recruitment and Retention Act. Source Laws 1999, LB 849, § 1; Laws 2001, LB 808, § 5.
35-1302 – Legislative findings.
35-1302. Legislative findings. (1) The Legislature recognizes that volunteer firefighters and rescue squad personnel have provided fire suppression and emergency response services to their local communities for over a century at only a fraction of the cost to the taxpayers which would have resulted from implementing a system of paid fire departments and rescue squad […]
35-1303 – Terms, defined.
35-1303. Terms, defined. For purposes of the Volunteer Emergency Responders Recruitment and Retention Act: (1) Active emergency responder means a person who has been approved by the duly constituted authority in control of a volunteer department as a volunteer member of the department who is performing service as both a firefighter and on a rescue […]
35-1309 – Service award benefit program; authorized.
35-1309. Service award benefit program; authorized. (1) After March 1, 2000, any city of the first class, city of the second class, village, rural fire protection district, or suburban fire protection district which relies in whole or in part upon a volunteer department for emergency response services may adopt a service award benefit program as […]
35-1309.01 – Standard criteria for qualified active service; computation.
35-1309.01. Standard criteria for qualified active service; computation. (1) The standard criteria for qualified active service shall be based on a total of one hundred possible points per year. A person must accumulate at least fifty points out of the possible one hundred points during a year of service in order to qualify as an […]