(a) The city will pay to a police officer who is injured while performing off-duty security or traffic control services for a private individual or organization, benefits that are equal to the benefits that the city would be required to pay the officer if the officer had been injured while on duty with the city if:
(1) the injury occurs:
(A) while the officer is in the act of enforcing a federal or state law or a city ordinance; or
(B) solely because of the officer’s status as a peace officer; or
(C) while the officer is in the act of directing traffic on a public street or in an area immediately adjacent to a public street where traffic flow on the public street is affected by the officer’s action; and
(2) the officer has followed the procedures required in the general orders of the police department for obtaining approval for off-duty employment; and
(3) the officer cooperates with the city attorney in proceedings to recover workers’ compensation benefits from the employer for whom the officer was working at the time of the injury; and
(4) the officer agrees that if workers’ compensation benefits are received from the off-duty employer, the officer will reimburse the city for benefits that the city paid under this policy that were intended to be equivalent to workers’ compensation benefits.
(b) If the benefits paid to an officer under this policy that were intended to be equivalent to workers’ compensation benefits exceed the amount the officer is awarded as workers’ compensation benefits from the off- duty employer, the officer is not required to reimburse the city for the excess.
(c) The determination of whether an officer is entitled to benefits and the extent of benefits under this policy will be made by the director of risk management. (Ord. Nos. 19340; 22026; 24873; 25389; 30216)