(a) As long as the service being provided is not the same service which the County employee is paid to provide, the County must not prohibit or discourage any County employee from providing volunteer services for a local fire and rescue department, except:
(1) a local fire and rescue department to which the employee is assigned,
(2) to the extent the services are prohibited by the conflict-of-interest provisions of Chapter 19A, or
(3) to the extent volunteer service creates additional financial liability to the County.
(b) Employees in the firefighter/rescuer occupational series may be prohibited or restricted from providing volunteer fire, rescue or emergency medical services to local fire and rescue departments in the County under regulations adopted by the County Executive under method (2). (1980 L.M.C., ch. 64, § 3; 1988 L.M.C., ch. 14, § 7; 1993 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2004 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1.)
Editor’s note-Section 21-5, formerly §21-1, was renumbered, amended and retitled pursuant to 1998 L.M.C., ch. 4, §1.