9-3-19
Section 9-3-19 Donation of fire control property. (a) As used in this section, the term "fire
control or fire rescue equipment" includes, but is not limited to, a motor vehicle, fire
fighting tools, protective gear, breathing equipment, and other vehicles, supplies, and tools
used in fire fighting or fire rescue. (b) Any person, corporation, partnership, association,
or governmental entity may donate or give away used or obsolete fire control or fire rescue
equipment to the Alabama Forestry Commission for its use or for distribution to certified
volunteer fire departments. Any person, corporation, partnership, association, or governmental
entity that donates fire control or fire rescue equipment shall not be liable for civil damages
for personal injury, property damage, or death resulting from a defect in the equipment, if
the property was donated in good faith and the defect was unknown to the person making the
donation. The Alabama Forestry Commission and its commissioners and other...
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11-88-15.1
Section 11-88-15.1 Soliciting contributions for local volunteer fire departments; monthly usage
estimates. (a) County water systems incorporated pursuant to this chapter or other portions
of this title and municipal water systems incorporated pursuant to Chapter 50 or other portions
of this title are expressly authorized to solicit their customers, through monthly or other
periodic billings for water services, for voluntary contributions for local volunteer fire
departments, provided the board of directors of the system has first adopted a resolution
approving the participation in the solicitation authorized by this section, and have established
a minimum amount for the checkoff. County and municipal water systems that are granted permission
to participate may provide for one or more customer checkoffs on their billings as a method
for soliciting such voluntary contributions. Participating county and municipal water systems
shall distribute such contributions to the volunteer fire...
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45-23-141.10
Section 45-23-141.10 Regulatory control and supervision. With regard to the administration
of the fees levied by this act, the Dale County Commission shall exercise such regulatory
control and supervision over and may adopt rules and regulations as may be needed to meet
the requirements of this part. Any volunteer fire department or emergency medical service
squad that fails to comply with this part or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
this part, at the discretion of the county commission, may be deemed to have forfeited all
or part of the funds generated by this part for such period of time as may be determined.
(Act 2006-390, p. 990, §10.)...
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45-40-141.06
Section 45-40-141.06 Use of funds. Funds disbursed to eligible volunteer fire departments pursuant
to this part shall be expended only for fire protection and emergency medical services, including
training, supplies, buildings, capital improvements, equipment, insurance, professional services,
and dues. The funds shall not be expended for salaries, food, drink, social activities, or
fund-raising activities. After receiving funds, the volunteer fire departments shall keep
accurate records to verify that the funds are properly expended. By September 15th of each
year, the department shall file a report with the county association detailing the expenditure
of all funds during the previous 12 months and setting out a schedule of all proposed projects.
The filing shall account for all unspent funds and whether any unspent funds have been obligated.
Unspent funds that have not been obligated which exceed the amount of total receipts paid
to the department for the prior year from this fee...
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45-48-142.28
Section 45-48-142.28 Transfer of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of eligible volunteer
fire district. Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire district, any
remaining funds derived from this subpart or any assets purchased with the funds derived from
this subpart, after all indebtedness has been satisfied, shall be transferred to the Marshall
County Association of Fire Departments and Rescue Squads. The funds and assets shall be reallocated
to remaining volunteer fire districts that provide fire protection services for the dissolved
or abandoned area. In the event there are no remaining volunteer fire districts, the funds
or assets shall be distributed to remaining volunteer fire departments in the county. Upon
dissolution or abandonment of the fire district, the collection of fire protection service
fees shall cease unless a new district is formed within 30 days to replace the dissolved or
abandoned district. (Act 2013-403, p. 1543, § 10.)...
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13A-10-1
Section 13A-10-1 Definitions. The following definitions apply in this article only unless the
context otherwise requires: (1) FIREMAN. Any officer of a fire department, a member of a volunteer
fire department, or any other person vested by law with the duty to extinguish fires. (2)
GOVERNMENT. The state, county, municipality, or other political subdivision thereof, including
public county and city boards of education, the youth services department district, the Alabama
Institute for Deaf and Blind, and all educational institutions under the auspices of the State
Board of Education. (3) GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTION. Any activity which a public servant is legally
authorized to undertake on behalf of a government or the fire control activities of a member
of a volunteer fire department. (4) GOVERNMENTAL RECORD. Any record, paper, document, or thing
belonging to, or received or kept by, the government for information or record, or required
by law to be kept by others for information of the...
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45-48-142
Section 45-48-142 Centralized purchasing system. In order that the several volunteer fire departments
throughout Marshall County may be able to purchase their supplies and equipment at more competitive
prices, there is hereby created and established within the Marshall County Association of
Volunteer Firemen, a centralized purchasing system to be administered according to rules and
procedures adopted, from time to time, by resolution spread upon the minutes of such association.
Participation in the centralized purchasing system authorized by this section shall be optional
at the discretion of each volunteer fire department belonging to such association. (Act 90-437,
p. 602, § 1.)...
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45-49-142.02
Section 45-49-142.02 Duties of board. The board shall review and evaluate the delivery of volunteer
fire services to owners of dwellings and commercial buildings within the unincorporated area
in Mobile County Commission District 1 and any incorporated area in the district served by
a volunteer fire department. The board shall study and evaluate fire suppression, emergency
communication and dispatch, water supply and facilities, and the adequacy of fire protection
within the district. The board shall also review and collect data regarding a reasonable fire
protection and suppression service fee for funding fire protection, suppression, and emergency
dispatch. The board shall report its findings to the Mobile County Commission no later than
August 1, 2020. Thereafter, the board shall continue to serve in an advisory capacity as long
as needed by the Mobile County Commission. (Act 2015-258, § 4; Act 2019-152, § 1(4).)...

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32-6-270
Section 32-6-270 "Firefighter" and "retired volunteer firefighter" defined.
(a) As used in this division, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: "Firefighter"
means a current member or members of, or a retired member or members from, a paid, part-paid
or volunteer fire department of a city, town, county, or other subdivision of the state or
civilian federal firefighters or of a public corporation organized for the purpose of providing
water, water systems, fire protection services, or fire protection facilities in the state;
and such words shall include the chief, assistant chief, wardens, engineers, captains, firemen,
and all other officers and employees of such departments who actually engage in fire fighting
or in rendering first aid in case of drownings or asphyxiation at the scene of action. (b)
As used in this division, the term "retired volunteer firefighter" means someone
that has retired from performing the required duties of a firefighter on a voluntary...
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45-40-161
Section 45-40-161 Distribution of payments. (a) Pursuant to the authority granted by Sections
40-28-1 to 40-28-3, inclusive, Lawrence County's share of payments made by the Tennessee Valley
Authority to the state in lieu of ad valorem taxes shall be distributed as provided by this
section: (1) For the 1983-84 fiscal year, the Lawrence County Commission shall receive ninety
thousand dollars ($90,000) in a special allotment to replace alcoholic beverage proceeds taxes
and to assist the following agencies in the following amounts: a. Each fire department established
before January 1, 1982, shall receive two thousand dollars ($2,000). b. Each fire department
established after January 1, 1982, shall receive four thousand dollars ($4,000). c. The Lawrence
County Rescue Squad shall receive two thousand dollars ($2,000). d. The Lawrence County Youth
Aid Fund shall receive two thousand dollars ($2,000). (2) For the 1984-85 fiscal year and
each fiscal year thereafter, each fire department, the...
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