48-126.01: Volunteer fire department; emergency management agency, organization, or team; military forces; law enforcement reserve force; volunteer emergency medical service; members; wages; basis of computation.

In determining the compensation to be paid any member of the military forces of this state, any member of a law enforcement reserve force, any member of a volunteer fire department in any rural or suburban fire protection district, city, or village, any member of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, any city, village, county, or interjurisdictional emergency management organization, or any state emergency response team, or any member of a volunteer emergency medical service, which military forces, law enforcement reserve force, fire department, emergency management agency, organization, or team, or volunteer emergency medical service is regularly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, or any person fulfilling conditions of probation, or community service as defined in section 29-2277, pursuant to any order of any court of this state who shall be working for a governmental body, or agency as defined in section 29-2277, pursuant to any condition of probation, or community service as defined in section 29-2277, for injuries resulting in disability or death received in the performance of his or her duties as a member of such military forces, reserve force, department, agency, organization, team, or service, or pursuant to an order of any court, the wages of such a member or person shall be taken to be those received by him or her from his or her regular employer, and he or she shall receive such proportion thereof as he or she is entitled to under the provisions of section 48-121. If such member or person is not regularly employed by some other person, for the purpose of such determination, it shall be deemed and assumed that he or she is receiving income from his or her business or from other employment equivalent to wages in an amount one and one-half times the maximum compensation rate for total disability. If the wages received for the performance of duties as a member of such military forces, reserve force, department, agency, organization, team, or service exceed the wages received from a regular employer, such member shall be entitled to a rate of compensation based upon wages received as a member of such military forces, reserve force, department, agency, organization, team, or service.