{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-15-5-402","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 15-5-402","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) As used in this article:\n(i) \"Account\" means the firemen's pension account established by W.S. 15-5-202;\n(ii) \"Board\" means the retirement board established by W.S. 9-3-404 and includes all the powers and duties enumerated in W.S. 9-3-401 through 9-3-429;\n(iii) \"Compensation\" means all salary or wages payable to a member for service including contributions required by W.S. 15-5-420. For purposes of computing benefits under this article, compensation shall include only compensation on which contributions have been paid pursuant to W.S. 15-5-420 and 15-5-421;\n(iv) \"Credited service\" means for any member, service as an employee;\n(v) \"Dependent\" means a dependent child or dependent parent;\n(vi) \"Dependent child\" means a person who is unmarried and either:\n(A) Has not attained age eighteen (18); or\n(B) Has attained age eighteen (18) but not age twenty-three (23) and is attending school on a full-time basis; or\n(C) Has attained age eighteen (18) and is permanently disabled as the result of a disability which began before he attained age eighteen (18).\n(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;\n(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;\n(ix) \"Employer\" means any incorporated municipality, county or fire protection district offering fire protection or public safety services employing one (1) or more members;\n(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;\n(xi) \"Inactive member\" means a member who:\n(A) Has terminated service;\n(B) Is not eligible to begin receiving a service or disability pension; and\n(C) Has neither applied for nor received a refund of his contributions.\n(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. 15-5-418;\n(xiii) \"Pension system\" means the retirement and disability plans for employees covered under the provisions of this article or W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209;\n(xiv) \"Primary survivor\" means any person in the following order of priority, unless the priority is changed by the member on a form prescribed by the board and filed with the board at the time of the member's death:\n(A) The surviving spouse; or\n(B) If there is no eligible surviving spouse, a dependent child, or with the survivor's pension divided among them in equal shares, all such children, including any resulting from a pregnancy prior to the member's death.\n(xv) \"Retired member\" means any member who has terminated service, other than an inactive member, who is eligible to receive a service or disability pension under this article;\n(xvi) \"Accumulated contributions\" means:\n(A) For a member who has a vested right to a service pension or a member initially employed before July 1, 2018, the member's contributions paid from any source;\n(B) For a member who is neither eligible for a service nor disability pension nor has a vested right to a service pension and who is initially employed on or after July 1, 2018, only the member's contributions paid by a reduction in cash salary of the member.","path":["TITLE 15 - CITIES AND TOWNS","CHAPTER 5 - FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS","ARTICLE 4 - FIREMEN'S PENSION ACCOUNT REFORM ACT OF 198"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title15.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"938fafaa06eacb1a22f72cb004c64f1ac8145333ecf9de403c450a1bf9b93f48","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-15-5-401","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-15-5-403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}