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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 25. FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY · Chapter 4. FIREFIGHTER STANDARDS AND TRAINING

25-4-7. Functions and powers of council.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The council is vested with the following functions and powers:

  2. (1)

    To promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of the council;#

  3. (2)

    To provide rules of procedure for its internal management and control;#

  4. (3)

    To enter into contracts or do such things as may be necessary and incidental to the administration of its authority pursuant to this chapter;#

  5. (4)

    To establish uniform minimum standards for the employment and training of firefighters, fire and life safety educators, fire inspectors, fire investigators, and other such firefighting service professionals as determined by the council, including qualifications, certifications, recertifications, decertifications, and probations for certified individuals and suspensions for noncertified individuals, and requirements, which are consistent with this chapter;#

  6. (5)

    To establish minimum curriculum requirements for schools operated by or for any employing agency for the specific purpose of training firefighters, fire and life safety educators, fire inspectors, and fire investigators;#

  7. (6)

    To approve institutions and facilities for school operation by or for any employing agency for the specific purpose of training firefighters;#

  8. (7)

    To make or support studies on any aspect of firefighter education and training or recruitment;#

  9. (8)

    To make recommendations concerning any matter within its purview;#

  10. (9)

    To establish basic firefighter training requirements;#

  11. (10)

    To certify any person satisfactorily complying with the training program established in accordance with paragraph (9) of this subsection and the qualifications for employment covered in this chapter; and#

  12. (11)

    To issue a certificate to any person who has received training in another state or who has received training as a federal firefighter by the United States government, when the council has determined that the training was at least equivalent to that required by the council for approved firefighter education and training programs in this state and when the person has satisfactorily complied with all other requirements of this chapter.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1971, p. 693, § 6; Ga. L. 2003, p. 888, § 6; Ga. L. 2005, p. 619, § 2/SB 308; Ga. L. 2008, p. 243, § 4/SB 414; Ga. L. 2016, p. 64, § 3/HB 727; Ga. L. 2020, p. 515, § 9/SB 342; Ga. L. 2025, p. 332, § 6-11/SB 96, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, deleted the subsection (a) designation; deleted “full-time firefighters, part-time firefighters, airport” following “training of” in paragraph (4); deleted “firefighter recruits or full-time firefighters, part-time firefighters, airport” following “of training” in paragraph (5); deleted “full-time and part-time firefighters and full-time and part-time firefighter recruits, including airport” following “of training” in paragraph (6); deleted “for full-time, part-time, and contract firefighters, including airport firefighters” following “requirements” in paragraph (9); and deleted subsections (b) and (c).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 20 to 21; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.