As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
FIRE DUTIES
Duties performed while at fires, while answering alarms of
fires, while answering calls for mutual aid assistance, while returning
from calls for mutual aid assistance, while directly returning from
fires, while at tests or trials of any apparatus or equipment normally
used by the fire department, while going to or returning directly
from such tests or trials, while instructing or being instructed in
fire duties, and any other duty ordered to be performed by a superior
or commanding officer in the fire department.
FIREFIGHTER
Any person who is a duly designated a member of one of the
Town of Monroe volunteer fire departments.
POLICE DUTIES
Any action which an officer is obligated or authorized by
law, rule, regulation, or written condition of employment of service
to perform during regularly scheduled hours, or other hours that qualify,
for compensation from the Police Department.
POLICE OFFICER
A duly sworn member of the Town of Monroe Police Department.
When the context of this article so requires, the masculine
gender shall include the feminine and neuter, and vice-versa, and
the singular shall include the plural, and the plural, the singular.
If such surviving spouse remarries or enters into another civil
union, the abatement shall cease commencing with taxes on the grand
list next following date of such remarriage or civil union.