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36-30-2
Section 36-30-2 Deaths deemed compensable; compensation for total disability; amount
of compensation. (a) In the event a peace officer, a firefighter, a volunteer firefighter
who is a member of an organized volunteer fire department registered with the Alabama Forestry
Commission, or a rescue squad member is killed, either accidentally or deliberately, or dies
as a result of injuries received while engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or
dies as a direct and proximate result of a heart attack or stroke, his or her beneficiaries
or dependents shall be entitled to compensation in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000) to be paid from the State Treasury as provided in Section 36-30-3, unless
such death was caused by the willful misconduct of the officer, firefighter, or rescue squad
member or was due to his or her own intoxication or his or her willful failure or refusal
to use safety appliances provided by his or her employer or his or her willful refusal or...
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36-30-1
Section 36-30-1 Definitions; dependents; persons eligible for compensation. (a) For
the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
(1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. The State Board of Adjustment, created and existing pursuant to Article
4, Chapter 9 of Title 41. (2) COMPENSATION. The money benefits paid on account of injury or
death which occurred during the course of employment or activity as a peace officer or firefighter
and is in the nature of workers' compensation. (3) DEPENDENT CHILD. An unmarried child under
the age of 18 years, or one over the age of 18 who is physically or mentally incapacitated
from earning. (4) DIRECT AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE. Death resulting
from a heart attack or stroke caused by engaging or participating in a situation while on
duty involving nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical law enforcement, fire suppression,
rescue, hazardous material response, emergency medical service, prison...
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45-8A-22.116
Section 45-8A-22.116 Disability benefits. (a) Line of Duty Disability Benefit. (1) Effective
for Disabilities Occurring Before October 1, 2012. a. Participants Hired Before July 1, 2002.
A participant, who was hired by the City of Anniston as a sworn police officer or sworn firefighter
before July 1, 2002, who becomes permanently physically or mentally disabled as a result of
injuries received in the line of duty, rendering his or her retirement from service necessary,
shall be entitled to receive a disability benefit equal to the following: 1. Participants
With At Least Three Years of Service. The participant's disability benefit shall equal three
percent times the average of his or her monthly compensation for the last three years preceding
his or her retirement multiplied by 30. 2. Participants With Less Than Three Years of Service.
The participant's disability benefit shall equal three percent times the average of his or
her monthly compensation for all years of continuous service...
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36-27-16
Section 36-27-16 Retirement, etc., of employees; retirement allowances. (a)(1) RETIREMENT,
ETC., OF EMPLOYEES GENERALLY; ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS. a. Any Tier I plan
member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 60 and any Tier II plan
member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 62 may retire upon written
application to the Board of Control setting forth at what time, not less than 30 days nor
more than 90 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he or she desires to be
retired; provided, that any such member who became a member on or after October 1, 1963, shall
have completed 10 or more years of creditable service; provided further, that a Tier I plan
member employed as a state policeman shall be eligible to file application for service retirement
upon attaining age 52 and a Tier II plan member employed as a state policeman or employed
as a correctional officer, firefighter, or law enforcement officer as defined...
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31-9-10
Section 31-9-10 Local emergency management organizations; emergency powers of political
subdivisions. (a) Each political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized and directed
to establish a local organization for emergency management in accordance with the state emergency
management plan and program and may confer or authorize the conferring, upon members of the
auxiliary police, the powers of peace officers, subject to such restrictions as shall be imposed.
The governing body of the political subdivision is authorized to appoint a director, who shall
have direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of such local
organization for emergency management, subject to the direction and control of such governing
body. Each local organization for emergency management shall perform emergency management
functions within the territorial limits of the political subdivision within which it is organized,
and, in addition, shall conduct such functions outside of...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following
powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof
in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which
may be in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To
adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and
alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive,
take and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise,
property of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties
and whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to
manage said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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36-27-59
Section 36-27-59 Award of hazardous duty time; purchase of credit under Employees' or
Teachers' Retirement System. (a) When used in this section, the following terms shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) CORRECTIONAL
OFFICER. A full-time correctional officer who is certified as a correctional officer by the
Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission. (2) FIREFIGHTER. A full-time firefighter
employed with the State of Alabama, a municipal fire department, or a fire district who has
a level one minimum standard certification by the Firefighters Personnel Standards and Education
Commission, or a firefighter employed by the Alabama Forestry Commission who has been certified
by the State Forester as having met the wild land firefighter training standard of the National
Wildfire Coordinating Group. (3) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A full-time law enforcement officer,
not covered as a state policeman, employed with any state agency,...
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11-43-144
Section 11-43-144 Compensation for death or disability of firefighters from occupational
diseases. (a) As used in this section the following words and terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them herein unless a contrary meaning is indicated by the context: (1)
CITY. Any municipality of the state, regardless of its population. (2) FIREFIGHTER. A person
employed as a firefighter by a city. (3) FIREFIGHTER'S OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. Any condition
or impairment of health caused by any of the following: a. Hypertension. b. Heart disease.
c. Respiratory disease. d. Cancer which manifests itself in a firefighter during the period
in which the firefighter is in the service of the city, provided the firefighter demonstrates
that he or she was exposed, while in the employ of the city, to a known carcinogen which is
reasonably linked to the disabling cancer, and the cancer shall be presumed to arise out of
and in the course of the firefighter's employment unless the city demonstrates by a...
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6-5-338
Section 6-5-338 Immunity of peace officers and tactical medics from tort liability for
conduct in the line of duty; certain employers of off-duty officers to maintain liability
coverage. (a) Every peace officer and tactical medic, except constables, who is employed or
appointed pursuant to the Constitution or statutes of this state, whether appointed or employed
as a peace officer or tactical medic by the state or a county or municipality thereof, or
by an agency or institution, corporate or otherwise, created pursuant to the Constitution
or laws of this state and authorized by the Constitution or laws to appoint or employ police
officers or other peace officers or tactical medics, and whose duties prescribed by law, or
by the lawful terms of their employment or appointment, include the enforcement of, or the
investigation and reporting of violations of, the criminal laws of this state, and who is
empowered by the laws of this state to execute warrants, to arrest and to take into...
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11-40-10.2
Section 11-40-10.2 Rehiring of certain law enforcement officers retired from state or
local law enforcement agency. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a
Class 5, Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality may rehire a retired law enforcement officer
to perform duties as needed if the mayor, or town or city council, as appropriate, declares
all of the following: (1) There is a critical personnel shortage such that the rehiring is
necessary to provide public safety services. (2) The retired law enforcement officer retired
from any state or local law enforcement agency within the State of Alabama which subscribes
to the same pension system as the reemploying authority, and has been retired for at least
45 consecutive days prior to reemployment with a municipality. (3) The retired law enforcement
officer, at the time of retirement, met the qualifications as a law enforcement officer provided
in Section 36-21-46, and the standards and rules issued by the Alabama Peace...
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