§79-15 Injured employee. Whenever any police officer, firefighter, or any other officer or employee who is temporarily exposed to unusually hazardous conditions, or who is a member of a class, recognized by the action of repricing, to be a class exposed to unusually hazardous conditions, receives personal injury arising out of and in the performance of his duty and without negligence on his part, he shall be placed on accidental injury leave unless suspended or dismissed for cause, and continued on the payroll of his respective department at his full regular monthly salary during the first four months of his disability and thereafter during the period of his total disability from work at sixty per cent of his regular monthly salary, as though he did not sustain an industrial injury. He shall be entitled to all rights and remedies allowed under chapter 386, provided that any salary paid under this section shall be applied on account of any compensation allowed him under chapter 386 or any benefits awarded him under part III of chapter 88. [L 1963, c 64, §1; Supp, §5-43.5; HRS §79-15; am L 1983, c 124, §15]