36-21-180
Section 36-21-180 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The board of commissioners of the fund and any successors thereto. (2) ERS. The Employees' Retirement System of Alabama. (3) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. The executive director of the board. (4) FIREFIGHTER. Any firefighter as certified by the Alabama Firefighters Personnel Standards and Education Commission. The term also includes any volunteer firefighter who is a member of a certified volunteer fire department under Section 9-3-17. (5) FUND. The Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund created in this article. (6) MEMBER. Any firefighter who is a member of the fund and who is in good standing by virtue of having paid all sums required by this article. (7) MEMBERSHIP SERVICE. The period of employment of a member as a firefighter from the date he or she becomes a member. (8) MONTH. A period of...
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9-3-17
Section 9-3-17 Certification as volunteer fire department. (a) The term volunteer fire department shall apply to and be used to define an organized group of area residents who meet the following requirements for personnel, training, and equipment: (1) The group shall be organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Alabama as a nonprofit organization or as an authority of a municipality, fire district, or other legal subdivision. The group shall actively respond to fires and other emergencies and shall have a clearly defined coverage area recognized by the Alabama Forestry Commission and the county fire association where the group is located as the primary fire protection provider for the coverage area. The group shall be comprised of not less than four members and shall provide monthly emergency response reports to the commission. All persons who are members of the group shall be known as volunteer fire fighters, and shall have been qualified as such by participating in...
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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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22-18-40
Section 22-18-40 State Emergency Medical Control Committee. (a) The board shall be assisted in formulating rules and policy pertaining to emergency medical services by the State Emergency Medical Control Committee (SEMCC). Each member of the SEMCC shall have voting privileges. Members of the SEMCC shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of the duties of their office at the same rate paid state employees. The chair of SEMCC may establish subcommittees of SEMCC comprised of representatives from ambulance, fire, rescue, and other EMS groups, as needed. (b) The SEMCC shall be composed as follows: (1) The medical directors of each EMS region designated by the board as ex officio members. (2) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. (3) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the State Committee on Trauma of the American College of...
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41-4-33.2
Section 41-4-33.2 Applicability of section; use of public funds, etc., by ambulance services, etc., authorized; penalty for unauthorized use; final disposition of property. (a) This section shall apply to voluntary nonprofit ambulance services and voluntary nonprofit rescue squads which are operated as a public service for the benefit of the citizens of this state. It is declared that said ambulance services and rescue squads are quasi-public entities that are entitled to receive and use public funds or property appropriated, donated or loaned to them by the state or any county or municipal governing body. (b) All surplus property owned by the state to be disposed of by sale at auction by the Finance Department shall first be screened by the state Board of Health Ambulance Advisory Board created in Section 22-18-5, and the Alabama Association of Rescue Squads, Inc., to determine if such property may be of use by volunteer ambulance services or volunteer rescue squads respectively. If...
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45-23-141.04
Section 45-23-141.04 Fee - Collection, administration, and enforcement. The fire and emergency medical service fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced at the same manner, and under the same requirements and laws as are the ad valorem taxes of the state. In the case of mobile homes, the fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced at the same time, in the same manner, and under the same requirements and laws as the annual registration fee for manufactured homes provided in Section 40-12-255. The proceeds of the fee shall be paid into a special county fire and emergency medical services fund. Within 30 days of payment into the special fund, the county commission shall transfer the funds to the Dale County Volunteer Firefighters Association and the Dale County Rescue Squad Association in the following manner: Twenty percent of the fee shall go the Dale County Rescue Squad Association to be divided evenly among Dale County's eligible emergency medical service squads; 80...
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38-13-3
Section 38-13-3 Criminal history background information check required for certain individuals; exemptions. (a) On November 1, 2000, every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency shall request the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to conduct a criminal history background information check for the following: (1) An employment applicant, employee or volunteer of an employer, child care facility, adult care facility, or child placing agency. (2) A current foster parent for a child or adult or adult household member of a foster family or applicant and an adult household member of a foster family seeking approval to operate as a foster parent or foster family home for a child placing agency or the Department of Human Resources. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, no criminal history background information check shall be conducted on a current foster parent or household member of a foster family if a Federal...
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45-2-244.134
Section 45-2-244.134 Disposition of funds. The proceeds from the tax authorized, less the amount or percentage of the actual cost of collection as may be agreed upon by the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue and the Baldwin County Commission, shall be distributed to the Baldwin County Commission to be allocated on an annual basis for the remainder of the 2005 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, as follows: (1) The first eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) of the funds or portion thereof received pursuant to this subpart shall be equally divided among the following rescue squads: Lower Alabama Search and Rescue, Inc., North Baldwin Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Inc., and Daphne Search and Rescue, Inc. Any additional search and rescue squad authorized by the county commission after May 13, 2005, shall be funded out of the county treasury in an amount equal to the amount that each squad existing on September 26, 2003, receives from the tobacco tax. Each of the recipient...
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45-29-243.05
Section 45-29-243.05 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Fayette County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the credit of either the Fayette County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority or the Fayette County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association as follows: (1) Sixty percent to the Fayette County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. (2) Forty percent to the Fayette County Fire and Rescue Squad Association with five percent of this directed to public licensed ambulance services if such services are authorized and created by such association. (b) The Fayette County Fire and Rescue Association shall have authority to promulgate rules and regulations having the force and effect of law for the distribution of the funds under subdivision (2). (c) Distribution shall be made by the Fayette County...
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45-30-245.35
Section 45-30-245.35 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Franklin County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the credit of either the Franklin County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority or the Franklin County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association as follows: (1) Sixty percent to the Franklin County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. (2) Forty percent to the Franklin County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, to be divided as follows: a. Twenty-five percent to the Franklin County Firefighters Association. b. Ten percent to rescue squad associations. c. Five percent to public licensed ambulance services if such services are authorized and created by such association. (b) The Franklin County Fire and Rescue Association shall have authority to promulgate rules and regulations having the...
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