Section 3600.2 Of Chapter 3. Conditions Of Compensation Liability From California Labor Code >> Division 4. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3.
3600.2
. (a) Whenever any peace officer, as defined in Section 50920
of the Government Code, is injured, dies, or is disabled from
performing his duties as a peace officer by reason of engaging in the
apprehension or attempted apprehension of law violators or suspected
law violators, or protection or preservation of life or property, or
the preservation of the peace anywhere in this state, including the
local jurisdiction in which he is employed, but is not at the time
acting under the immediate direction of his employer, he or his
dependents, as the case may be, shall be accorded by his employer all
of the same benefits, including the benefits of this division, which
he or they would have received had that peace officer been acting
under the immediate direction of his employer. Any injury,
disability, or death incurred under the circumstances described in
this section shall be deemed to have arisen out of and been sustained
in the course of employment for purposes of workers' compensation
and all other benefits.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to:
(1) Require the extension of any benefits to a peace officer who
at the time of his injury, death, or disability is acting for
compensation from one other than the city, county, city and county,
judicial district, or town of his primary employment.
(2) Require the extension of any benefits to a peace officer
employed by a city, county, city and county, judicial district, or
town which by charter, ordinance, or departmental regulation, whether
now in force or hereafter enacted or promulgated, expressly
prohibits the activity giving rise to the injury, disability, or
death.
(3) Enlarge or extend the authority of any peace officer to make
an arrest; provided, however, that illegality of the arrest shall not
affect the extension of benefits by reason of this act if the peace
officer reasonably believed that the arrest was not illegal.