(A) The Emergency Medical Services Department shall consist of as many paid and volunteer members as may be decided by the City Council.
(1) All proposed volunteer members shall be identified by the Emergency Medical Services Department Head and approved by the City Council prior to gaining membership status. To qualify for such recommendation by the Department Head, proposed members shall have satisfied prior to advancement to the City Council the criteria for qualification as a volunteer member.
(2) To remain in active volunteer membership status, members must actively and faithfully perform the duties of their position and continue to meet the criteria for qualification as a volunteer member.
(3) Members shall be considered employees of the city for the purpose of worker's compensation.
(4) The city shall purchase a life insurance policy (or group policy) to cover each active volunteer emergency medical service providers in the amount and with terms required by state law.
(B) The members may hold meetings and engage in social activities with the approval of the City Council. A record of all meetings shall be kept and filed on a monthly basis with the City Clerk.
(C) Members shall be subject to such rules and regulations and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed or required of them by this code. Volunteer members of the Emergency Medical Services Department when testifying as a witness in connection with his or her officially assigned duties in that capacity alone shall not be deemed an employee of the State of Nebraska or of the city.
(D) All members of the Emergency Medical Services Department may be required to submit to a physical examination and/or random drug testing at any time as required by the Emergency Medical Services Department Head or by the City Council.
(E) All members of the Emergency Medical Services Department shall, when possible, wear an appropriate uniform by which they may be known to the public during the performance of their duties. The city shall furnish said uniforms; provided, however, that any member who shall lose or destroy the same (not while in the line of duty) shall be required to pay the cost of replacing it; and when any member shall leave the department, he or she shall immediately deliver the all property belonging to the city, to an officer of the Emergency Medical Services Department.
(Ord. 2219, passed 8-25-16)
Statutory reference:
Group life insurance, see Neb. RS 35-108
Employee defined, see Neb. RS 48-115