Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 32 - Fire Fighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission

• Section 36-32-1 Definitions
  For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary: (1)...
• Section 36-32-2 Creation; composition; qualifications of members; appointment; terms of office; adoption of bylaws
  (a) The Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission shall consist of seven members, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the state...
• Section 36-32-3 Officers; powers and duties; compensation; expenditures and revenues; education and training; facilities
  (a) The commission shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among its members at the first regular quarterly meeting of the calendar year. (b)...
• Section 36-32-4 Meetings; seal; quorum
  The commission shall meet in regular session quarterly at a time and place in the State of Alabama to be designated in its bylaws. Special...
• Section 36-32-5 Functions and duties
  The commission shall have the following functions and duties together with all powers necessary or convenient for the performance thereof: (1) To study, obtain data,...
• Section 36-32-6 Approval of regulations; regulations and bylaws to be kept current; public inspection of regulations and bylaws
  Regulations proposed by the commission shall, before becoming effective, be distributed to each fire-fighting agency, the Professional Firefighters' Association of Alabama, the Alabama Association of...
• Section 36-32-7 Minimum standards for firefighters
  (a) Applicability. The minimum standards provided in this section shall apply to trainees who are to be employed as fire-protection personnel by a public fire...
• Section 36-32-8 Penalty for employing firefighter failing to meet standards
  Any person who shall permanently employ any trainee who, to the knowledge of the employer, fails to meet the minimum standards provided in Section 36-32-7...
• Section 36-32-9 Fund - Creation; acceptance and disposition of grants and appropriations
  There is hereby established and created in the Treasury of the state the Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Fund. The commission may accept grants...
• Section 36-32-10 Fund - Municipalities and counties authorized to make appropriations and grants
  The governing body of each incorporated city or town and the governing body of each county of the state is hereby authorized to appropriate any...
• Section 36-32-11 Fire-fighting agencies authorized to make mutual assistance agreements
  Each fire-fighting agency in the state is hereby authorized to make agreements and arrangements for cooperation and mutual assistance in fire-fighting training, with the commission...
• Section 36-32-12 Powers and duties of municipal governments
  Except as expressly provided in this chapter, nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to limit the powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of municipal...
• Section 36-32-13 Joint Legislative Oversight Committee; transfer of certain employees to State Merit System; membership of commission
  (a) There is created the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee of the Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission. The committee shall be composed of three...

Last modified: May 3, 2021