891.453 Presumption of employment-connected disease; infectious disease.

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(1)In this section:

(a)“Correctional officer” means any person employed by the state or by a county or a municipality as a guard or officer whose principal duties are the supervision and discipline of inmates.

(b)“Emergency medical service provider” means a person employed by the state or by a county or municipality and who is an emergency medical services practitioner under s. 256.01

(5)or an emergency medical responder under s. 256.01

(4p).

(c)“Fire fighter” means a state, county, or municipal fire fighter who is covered under s. 891.45 and any person under s. 60.553 , 61.66 , or 62.13

(2e)whose duties as a fire fighter took up at least two-thirds of his or her working hours.

(d)“Law enforcement officer” means any person employed by the state or by a county or a municipality for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances which he or she is employed to enforce. “Law enforcement officer” includes a person under s. 60.553 , 61.66 , or 62.13

(2e)whose duties as a police officer took up at least two-thirds of his or her working hours.

(a)In this subsection, “infectious disease” includes the human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, diphtheria, meningococcal meningitis, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome.