'Firefighter' means a member who is: 1. Filling a full-time position with a participating public employer, the principal duties of which require emotional stability and physical capacity in protecting the public and controlling and extinguishing fires. 2. The former holder of a position defined in subsection 1 who has: (a) Earned at least 2 years of creditable service in that position; and (b) Been promoted or transferred within the chain of command by the same public employer to a position related to protecting the public and controlling and extinguishing fires. 3. The former holder of a position defined in subsection 1 who: (a) Has earned at least 2 years of creditable service in that position; and (b) Is employed by a different public employer in a position that would have been eligible under paragraph (b) of subsection 2 had the member remained with the member’s former employer. (Added to NRS by 1975, 1028; A 1977, 1574; 1981, 444; 1987, 370; 2003, 2051)
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