Section 3600.3 Of Chapter 3. Conditions Of Compensation Liability From California Labor Code >> Division 4. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3.
3600.3
. (a) For the purposes of Section 3600, an off-duty peace
officer, as defined in subdivision (b), who is performing, within the
jurisdiction of his or her employing agency, a service he or she
would, in the course of his or her employment, have been required to
perform if he or she were on duty, is performing a service growing
out of and incidental to his or her employment and is acting within
the course of his or her employment if, as a condition of his or her
employment, he or she is required to be on call within the
jurisdiction during off-duty hours.
(b) As used in subdivision (a), "peace officer" means those
employees of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection named as
peace officers for purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 830.37 of
the Penal Code.
(c) This section does not apply to any off-duty peace officer
while he or she is engaged, either as an employee or as an
independent contractor, in any capacity other than as a peace
officer.