15-5-421;

15-5-421;

(iv) "Credited service" means for any member, service as an employee;

(v) "Dependent" means a dependent child or dependent parent;

(vi) "Dependent child" means a person who is unmarried and either:

(A) Has not attained age eighteen (18); or

(B) Has attained age eighteen (18) but not age twenty-three (23) and is attending school on a full-time basis; or

(C) Has attained age eighteen (18) and is permanently disabled as the result of a disability which began before he attained age eighteen (18).

(vii) "Disability" means a medically determined physical or mental impairment which renders the member unable to function as a paid firefighter and which is reasonably expected to last at least twelve (12) months;

(viii) "Employee" means any individual regularly employed and paid by any city, town, county or fire protection district for devoting his entire time of employment to the care, operation and requirements of a regularly constituted fire department;

(ix) "Employer" means any incorporated municipality, county or fire protection district offering fire protection or public safety services employing one (1) or more members;

(x) "Final average compensation" means one thirty-sixth (1/36) of the compensation paid to an employee during any period of thirty-six (36) consecutive months in his years of credited service in which his compensation was highest;

(xi) "Inactive member" means a member who:

(A) Has terminated service;  (B) Is not eligible to begin receiving a service or disability pension; and

(C) Has neither applied for nor received a refund of his contributions.

(xii) "Member" means an employee whose compensation is not subject to the federal old-age, survivors and disability insurance tax and who either is first hired on or after July 1, 1981 or who elects coverage under the provisions of W.S.