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21-5-701. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Child" or "children" means any natural child, adopted child, or stepchild who is eligible under 21-5-707;

(2) "Covered public employee" means police officer, firefighter, state highway employee, state correction employee, Department of Community Correction employee, qualified emergency services worker, wildlife enforcement officer, emergency medical technician, State Forestry Commission employee, commissioned law enforcement personnel, or emergency response personnel of the State Parks Division of the Department of Parks and Tourism;

(3) "Department of Community Correction employee" means any employee of the Department of Community Correction who becomes subject to injury through contact with parolees, probationers, or center residents;

(4) "Emergency medical technician" means emergency medical technicians as defined in 20-13-202;

(5) "Firefighter" means any member of a fire department or fire fighting unit of any city of the first class or second class, or any town, or any unincorporated rural area of this state, who actively engages in the fighting of fires on either a regular or voluntary basis, or any instructor of the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, or any member of the fire fighting organization of the Camp Robinson Military Reservation or of Fort Chaffee;

(6) "Police officer" means:

(A) Any law enforcement officer engaged in official duty who is a member of any regular or auxiliary police force on a full-time or part-time basis, the Department of Arkansas State Police, or any member of the law enforcement organization of the Camp Robinson Military Reservation or of Fort Chaffee;

(B) A sheriff or deputy sheriff of any county who is engaged in official duty; or

(C) Any constable or night marshal of any town of this state engaged in official duty;

(7) "Qualified emergency services worker" means state, local, volunteer, and other emergency services workers as defined in 12-75-103;

(8) "State correction employee" means any employee of the Department of Correction or the Department of Correction School District who becomes subject to injury through contact with inmates or parolees of the Department of Correction;

(9) "State highway employee" means any employee of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department who actively engages in highway maintenance, construction, or traffic operations on the roadways and bridges of the state highway system while the roadways and bridges are open for use by the traveling public; and

(10) "Wildlife enforcement officer" means any employee of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission who actively engages, on a full-time or part-time basis, in the enforcement of the boating safety laws and regulations enacted for the protection of game, fish, furbearing animals, and other wildlife of the State of Arkansas.