Connecticut § 4-58a - Mutual aid fire pacts between state institutions and municipalities.
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§ 4-58a. Mutual aid fire pacts between state institutions and municipalities.
Sec. 4-58a. Mutual aid fire pacts between state institutions and municipalities. (a) The superintendent of any state institution shall have the power to enter into agreements with any town, city, borough, fire district or other governmental subdivision having the duty to extinguish fires within its limits or any volunteer fire department respecting mutual fire protection, including, but not limited to, arrangements respecting use of fire fighting equipment and the services of such personnel of such institution who are members of an institutional fire brigade.
(b) Any employee of a state institution who is a member of its regular or volunteer fire department or institutional fire brigade who is injured or dies as a result of responding to, working at or returning from a fire outside of such institution, in accordance with an agreement entered into under subsection (a) of this section with the municipality in which the fire occurred, shall be deemed to have been injured in the course of his employment and he and his estate shall be entitled to all the benefits of title 5 and chapter 568, provided the superintendent of such institution shall have authorized his service at such fire.
(c) The superintendent of any such institution may withhold the services of any member of the regular, volunteer or institutional fire brigade for fire fighting duty outside of such institution by reason of his assignment to regular or special duties at such institution.
(1961, P.A. 288; P.A. 05-288, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 13, 2005.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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