SECTIONS 50925-50927

50925.  As used in this article the term "firefighter" shall bedeemed to include only a member of a fire department of cities,counties, cities and counties, districts or other public or municipalcorporations or political subdivisions, whether the members arevolunteer, partly paid, or fully paid, excepting those whoseprincipal duties are clerical, such as stenographers, telephoneoperators and other workers not engaged in fire-suppression or rescueoperations or the protection or preservation of life or property.These firefighters shall be regularly employed, or in the case of avolunteer, shall be regularly enrolled as such.50926.  Whenever any fireman of a city, county, city and county,district, or other public or municipal corporation or politicalsubdivision is injured, dies or is disabled from performing hisduties as a fireman by reason of his proceeding to or engaging in afire suppression or rescue operation, or the protection orpreservation of life or property, anywhere in this state, includingthe local jurisdiction in which he is employed, but is not at thetime acting under the immediate direction of his employer, he or hisdependents, as the case may be, shall be accorded by his employer allof the same benefits of the Workers' Compensation Law, which he orthey would have received had that fireman been acting under theimmediate direction of his employer. Any injury, disability or deathincurred under the circumstances described in this section shall bedeemed to have arisen out of and been sustained in the course ofemployment for purposes of workers' compensation and all otherbenefits.50927.  Nothing in this article shall be deemed to: (a) Require the extension of any benefits to a fireman who at thetime of his injury, death, or disability is acting for compensationfrom one other than the city, county, city and county, district, orother public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of hisprimary employment or enrollment. (b) Require the extension of any benefits to a fireman employed bya city, county, city and county, district, or other public ormunicipal corporation or political subdivision which by charter,ordinance, or departmental regulation expressly prohibits theactivity giving rise to the injury, disability or death, whether nowin force or hereafter enacted or promulgated.