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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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36-30-3
Section 36-30-3 Payment of compensation - Generally. The compensation payable to surviving
beneficiaries or dependents of peace officers, firefighters, or rescue squad members who are
killed under the circumstances prescribed in Section 36-30-2 shall be paid to the beneficiaries
designated by those peace officers, firefighters, or rescue squad members. If no beneficiaries
have been designated, or if none remain, the compensation shall be paid to the persons entitled
thereto without administration or to a guardian or such other person as the awarding authority
may direct for the use of the persons entitled thereto, as follows: (1) If the deceased peace
officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member leaves a dependent spouse and no other dependents
or partial dependents, the total amount of the compensation provided for in Section 36-30-2
shall be paid to the surviving spouse. (2) If the deceased peace officer, firefighter, or
rescue squad member leaves a dependent spouse and a dependent...
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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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36-30-4
Section 36-30-4 Payment of compensation - Paid only to residents of United States. Compensation
pursuant to this article for the death of a peace officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member
shall be paid only to his or her designated beneficiaries or dependents who at the time of
such officer's, firefighter's, or rescue squad member's death were actually residents of the
United States. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 256, §4; Act 2008-480, p. 1047, §2; Act
2016-385, §1.)...
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36-30-7
Section 36-30-7 Construction of article; decision of awarding authority final. (a) This article
shall not be construed to give any person a right of action against the State of Alabama in
any court for the recovery of the compensation authorized by this article. This article shall
not be construed to take away any right of action in any court under any other law for the
recovery of damages for the death of a peace officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member;
nor, in the event of the death of a peace officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member who
was an employee of the State of Alabama at the time of the injury which proximately caused
his or her death, shall this article be construed to take away the right or privilege of the
surviving dependents of such peace officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member to file a
claim for damages with the State Board of Adjustment pursuant to any other law. (b) The decision
of the awarding authority shall be final and shall not be subject to...
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36-21-102
Section 36-21-102 Tuition benefits; eligibility. When a full-time law enforcement officer or
full-time firefighter employed by the state, by any county, or by any municipality, a volunteer
firefighter, or a rescue squad member is or was killed or becomes totally disabled in the
line of duty, free tuition for undergraduate study at any state college, state community college,
state junior college, state technical college, in the State of Alabama, and other costs officially
prescribed for the classes in the course of study, shall be paid for the following: (1) Any
dependent child, natural or adopted, under 21 years of age at the time of death or total disability
of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member. (2) A spouse who has
not remarried, provided initial enrollment is within five years of the death or total disability
of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or rescue squad member.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-609, p. 1058, §3; Act 99-448, p....
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36-30-5
Section 36-30-5 Presentation of claims for compensation; forms; rules of evidence and procedure.
(a) All claims for compensation as provided in this article shall be presented to the awarding
authority within two years from the date of the death of the peace officer, firefighter, or
rescue squad member or the claims are forfeited. All such claims shall be presented in the
form prescribed by the awarding authority, and proof of the facts and circumstances of the
peace officer's, firefighter's, or rescue squad member's death and, if necessary, the claimant's
relationship to and dependence upon such peace officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member
shall be made in the manner prescribed by the awarding authority. (b) Notwithstanding the
provisions of subsection (a), any person who was previously ineligible to claim the compensation
provided in this article, but is now eligible to claim the compensation provided in this article
because of the enactment of Act 2008-480, and who is making a...
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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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27-1-23
Section 27-1-23 Motor vehicle accidents by certain public safety officers. (a) A personal auto
insurance carrier of a full-time law enforcement officer or firefighter of a municipality
or a county or the State of Alabama or a member of a volunteer fire department, volunteer
rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service shall not consider any motor vehicle
accident of the full-time law enforcement officer or firefighter or member of a volunteer
fire department, volunteer rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service in fixing
insurance premiums or cause any increase in the employee's personal automobile insurance premiums
if, at the time of the accident, any of the following conditions exist: (1) The full-time
law enforcement officer or firefighter or member of a volunteer fire department, volunteer
rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service was acting as an agent of the governmental
employer or of the volunteer fire department, volunteer rescue squad, or...
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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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