1. 1. All county employees must be paid their salaries as fixed by law, ordinance or resolution without diminution on account of any time spent away from county employment while acting as:

   1. (a) Volunteer firefighters of any regular organized and recognized fire department in the protection of life or property; or

   2. (b) Volunteer ambulance drivers or attendants,

      during working hours or fractions thereof which should otherwise have been devoted to county employment.

2. 2. As used in this section, “volunteer ambulance driver or attendant” means a person who is a driver of or attendant on an ambulance owned or operated by:

   1. (a) A nonprofit organization that provides volunteer ambulance service in any county, city or town in this State; or
   2. (b) A political subdivision of this State.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 43; A 1971, 223; 1997, 468; 2005, 319)