Any actively employed law enforcement officer or fire fighter or reserve/auxiliary law enforcement officer or volunteer fire fighter, who is accidentally or intentionally injured in the line of duty as the direct result of a single incident, is eligible to receive benefits.
The individual must be employed by a state board, commission, department, division, bureau, or agency, or a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state. Employees of independent contractors are not eligible.
Effective January 1, 2011, reserve/auxiliary law enforcement officers and volunteer fire fighters are now eligible to receive benefits under the fund.
3 Miss. Code. R. 2-1-102