As used in this section except as the context otherwise requires:
- 1. “Compensation” means the same as defined in section 22.7, subsection 11.
- 2. “Law enforcement officer” means the same as “peace officer” as defined in section 801.4.
- 3. “Undercover law enforcement officer” means a law enforcement officer who is actively involved with and assigned to investigate alleged violations of state or federal law and whose identity as a law enforcement officer is concealed while conducting an investigation. “Undercover law enforcement officer” includes a law enforcement officer actively engaged in undercover law enforcement work whose assignment requires the law enforcement officer to work incognito, or in a situation in which the true identity of the law enforcement officer is intentionally hidden from others. “Undercover law enforcement officer” does not include a law enforcement officer participating in undercover law enforcement work that is merely incidental or ancillary to the law enforcement officer’s assigned duties.
2017 Acts, ch 122, §3