33-36-102(a)(vi) or a privately owned, for profit ambulance

33-36-102(a)(vi) or a privately owned, for profit ambulance service shall not be considered a volunteer emergency medical technician or EMT. Payment of compensation for services actually rendered by enrolled volunteers does not take them out of this classification. Any individual who volunteers assistance but is not regularly enrolled as an EMT is not a volunteer within the meaning of this chapter;

(ix) A "volunteer fire department" means any duly constituted and organized firefighting unit:

(A) Recognized by the appropriate local government with jurisdiction of the area the unit services and which provides fire protection services to the community as a whole pursuant to a contract or agreement with, or as sponsored by, a governmental entity;

(B) Operating under duly adopted bylaws;

(C) All or a portion of the members of which are volunteers;

(D) Holding monthly meetings to conduct business and training; and

(E) The membership of which is not comprised exclusively of employees of a sponsoring nongovernmental entity.

(x) "Volunteer firefighter" or "firefighter" means any individual who may or may not receive compensation for services rendered as a volunteer firefighter and who:  (A) Is carried on the regular rolls of, but devotes less than his entire time of employment to, activities of a volunteer fire department, all or a portion of the members of which are volunteer; and

(B) During the course of any one (1) year, attends not less than fifty percent (50%) of the monthly volunteer fire department meetings.

(xi) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 83, § 2.

(xii) "County search and rescue organization" means a search and rescue operation acting under the coordination of a county sheriff pursuant to W.S. 18-3-609(a)(iii) that:

(A) Has adopted and filed bylaws with the county clerk for the county in which the organization is located; and

(B) Holds not less than two (2) meetings per month and requires each volunteer search and rescue person to attend not less than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of meetings held each month.

(xiii) "Volunteer search and rescue person" or "search and rescue person" means any individual who:

(A) Is engaged in search and rescue operations with a county search and rescue organization;

(B) Is carried on the regular rolls of, but devotes less than the individual's entire time of employment to, activities of a county search and rescue organization; and

(C) May or may not receive compensation for services rendered as a member of a county search and rescue organization.

35-9-617. Volunteer firefighter, EMT and search and rescue pension account; merger with other pension accounts; membership.

(a) The volunteer firefighter, EMT and search and rescue pension account is created. All awards, benefits and pensions established under this article shall be paid from the account.

(b) The account established under subsection (a) of this section shall be controlled by the board and administered by the director of the Wyoming retirement system. All expenses of administration shall be paid from the account. Disbursements from the account shall be made upon warrants drawn by the state auditor upon certification by authorized system employees or using an appropriate alternative method approved by the state auditor.

(c) The account shall be comprised of all funds and liabilities of the volunteer firemen's pension account created pursuant to W.S. 35-9-602, the volunteer emergency medical technician pension account created pursuant to W.S. 35-29-102, funds directed into the account as provided by W.S. 26-4-102(b),