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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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