Section 5-10-7-6 - Receiving agencies; compensation; status of employees(a) When any unit of government of this state acts as a receiving agency, employees of the sending agency who are assigned under authority of this chapter may: (1) be given appointments in the receiving agency covering the periods of such assignments, with compensation to be paid from receiving agency funds or without compensation; or(2) be considered to be on detail to the receiving agency.(b) Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to the statutes or rules governing the selection of employees of the receiving agency.(c) Employees who are detailed to the receiving agency shall not by virtue of such detail be considered to be employees thereof, except as provided in subsection (d), nor shall they be paid a salary or wage by the receiving agency during the period of their detail, except in special cases upon written permission by the state board of accounts such employee or employees shall be paid fully by special appropriation approved by the county council and the department of local government finance. The supervision of the duties of such employees during the period of detail may be governed by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.(d) Any employee of a sending agency assigned in this state who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of such assignment or sustained in the performance of duties in connection therewith shall be treated for the purpose of receiving agency's employee compensation program as an employee, as defined in such statute, who has sustained such injury in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that statute for any period for which he elects to receive similar benefits as an employee under the sending agency's employee compensation program.(Formerly: Acts 1969, c.384, s.6.) As amended by P.L. 25-1986, SEC.33; P.L. 90-2002, SEC.15.