50-1502. DEFINITIONS. The following are definitions of terms used in sections 50-1501 through 50-1524, Idaho Code:

(a) "Paid policeman" means any individual who is on the payroll of any city in the state of Idaho and who devotes his or her principal time of employment to the care, operation or maintenance of a regularly constituted police department of such city;

(b) "Industrial accident board" means the board as authorized and created under the provisions of chapter 5, title 72, Idaho Code, or as the same may be hereafter amended;

(c) "Workers’ Compensation Law" means the Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized and created under title 72, Idaho Code, or as the same may hereafter be amended;

(d) "Twenty-five years active service" — an individual whose principal means of livelihood for the period of twenty-five (25) years has been through employment by a city in a regularly constituted police department, and has actually been carried on the payroll for twenty-five (25) years;

(e) "Five years continuous service, ten years continuous service, fifteen years continuous service" — an individual who has been employed by a regularly constituted police department for a period of five (5) years, ten (10) years, or fifteen (15) years continuously, without having engaged in any other gainful occupation;

(f) "Leave of absence" means a period of time which a paid policeman shall have been out of the service of said police department of the city of which he was a member, and who, for that like period of time was off the payrolls thereof;

(g) "Mandatory retirement at age sixty-five" — retirement to become mandatory when age of sixty-five (65) years has been reached;

(h) The meaning of the term "incapacitated in a degree which prohibits efficient service" means that degree of mental or physical disability which prohibits the efficient performance of the duties of a paid policeman during any occasion when his said services as a policeman shall be necessary;

(i) "Twenty-five years of accumulated service" — an individual who has been employed by a regularly constituted police department without having engaged in any other gainful occupation and has had twenty-five (25) years of accumulated service with the same police department and has been carried on the payrolls of such department for that period of accumulated time.

History:

[50-1502, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 254, p. 1249; am. 1993, ch. 350, sec. 1, p. 1295.]