Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 49 > Chapter 16 > Part 6 - Disability Benefit

• Active member: means a member who:
            (1)(a)(i) is employed by a participating employer and accruing service credit; or
            (1)(a)(ii) within the previous 120 days:

                 (1)(a)(ii)(A) has been employed by a participating employer; and

                 (1)(a)(ii)(B) accrued service credit. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Compensation: includes performance-based bonuses and cost-of-living adjustments. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Disability: means the complete inability, due to objective medical impairment, whether physical or mental, to perform firefighter service. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Employer: means any department, educational institution, or political subdivision of the state eligible to participate in a government-sponsored retirement system under federal law. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Final average monthly salary: means the amount computed by dividing the compensation received during the final average salary period under each system by the number of months in the final average salary period. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Final average salary: means the amount calculated by averaging the highest three years of annual compensation preceding retirement subject to Subsections (4)(b), (c), and (d). See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Firefighter service: means employment normally requiring an average of 2,080 hours of regularly scheduled employment per year rendered by a member who is:
            (5)(a)(i) a firefighter service employee trained in firefighter techniques and assigned to a position of hazardous duty with a regularly constituted fire department;
            (5)(a)(ii) the state fire marshal appointed under Section 53-7-103 or a deputy state fire marshal; or
            (5)(a)(iii) an emergency medical service personnel. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Firefighter service employee: means an employee of a participating employer who provides firefighter service under this chapter. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Line-of-duty death or disability: includes the death or disability of a paid firefighter resulting from heart disease, lung disease, or a respiratory tract condition if the paid firefighter has five years of firefighter service credit. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Member: means a person, except a retiree, with contributions on deposit with a system, the Utah Governors' and Legislators' Retirement Plan under Chapter 19, Utah Governors' and Legislators' Retirement Act, or with a terminated system. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Office: means the Utah State Retirement Office. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Participating employer: means an employer that meets the participation requirements of Section 49-16-201. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Retiree: means an individual who has qualified for an allowance under this title. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Retirement: means the status of an individual who has become eligible, applies for, and is entitled to receive an allowance under this title. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Service credit: means :
       (50)(a) the period during which an employee is employed and compensated by a participating employer and meets the eligibility requirements for membership in a system or the Utah Governors' and Legislators' Retirement Plan, provided that any required contributions are paid to the office; and
       (50)(b) periods of time otherwise purchasable under this title. See Utah Code 49-11-102
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• System: means the Firefighters' Retirement System created under this chapter. See Utah Code 49-16-102
• Years of service credit: means the number of periods, each to consist of 12 full months as determined by the board, whether consecutive or not, during which a firefighter service employee was employed by a participating employer or received full-time pay while on sick leave, including any time the firefighter service employee was absent in the service of the United States on military duty. See Utah Code 49-16-102