Definitions. Exemption from Freedom of Information Act.

(b) The records and meetings of a volunteer fire department which is established by municipal charter or constituted as a not-for-profit Connecticut corporation shall not be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 , if such records and meetings concern fraternal or social matters. Records and meetings concerning matters of public safety, expenditures of public funds or other public business shall be subject to disclosure under said sections. Cited. 159 C. 53; 196 C. 192; 209 C. 268; 212 C. 100; 221 C. 393. Cited. 15 CA 84. Cited. 44 CS 230. Subsec. (a): Volunteer firefighters injured at “work party” while repairing firehouse roof are entitled to compensation if they were injured while performing actions that fell within definition of “fire duties” as “any other duty ordered to be performed by a superior or commanding officer in the fire department”. 285 C. 348. Although plaintiff volunteer firefighters were injured while repairing roof of station house during “work night” organized by fire station's board of managers and supervised by fire chief, commissioner's determination that they had not been ordered to do so was supported by evidence showing that participation in event was voluntary; because plaintiffs' attendance at work night activities was voluntary, fact that they had been supervised by fire chief during project did not make those activities “fire duties” for purposes of qualifying for compensation under Subsec. 99 CA 42.