Sec. 7. (a) Emergency responders from outside Indiana rendering mutual aid within Indiana under a mutual aid agreement authorized by this chapter remain employees and agents of their respective employers and jurisdictions.
(b) This chapter or a mutual aid agreement entered into under this chapter does not create an employment relationship between the jurisdiction requesting aid and the employees and agents of the jurisdiction rendering aid.
(c) All pension, relief, disability, death benefits, worker's compensation benefits, and other benefits enjoyed by emergency responders rendering mutual aid under a mutual aid agreement authorized by this chapter extend to the services the emergency responders perform outside their respective jurisdictions, as if those services had been rendered in their own jurisdiction.
As added by P.L.94-2011, SEC.1.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 14. Emergency Management
Chapter 6.5. Interstate Mutual Aid Agreements
10-14-6.5-2. "Emergency Responder"
10-14-6.5-3. "Political Subdivision"
10-14-6.5-4. Written Mutual Aid Agreements; Participation of Private Entity Not Prohibited
10-14-6.5-6. Emergency Responder From Outside Indiana; Immunity From Liability
10-14-6.5-7. Emergency Responders Remain Employees of Jurisdiction Rendering Aid