As used in ORS 652.050 to 652.080:
- (1) “Firefighter” means a person whose principal duties consist of preventing or combating fire or preventing loss of life or property from fire.
- (2) “Regularly organized fire department” means any organization maintained for the purpose of preventing or combating fire and employing one or more persons on a full-time basis as firefighters.
- (3) “Volunteer firefighter” means a person who performs services as a firefighter for a regularly organized fire department and whose work hours and work shifts are voluntary and whose volunteer service is not a condition of employment.
[Amended by 1983 c.319 §1]