25-7-2. Creation; purposes.

1. There is created the Georgia Fire Academy, the purposes of which shall be, through training and research:

2. (1)

   To reduce the costs in suffering and property loss resulting from fire;#

3. (2)

   To provide professional training to paid, volunteer, and other publicly or privately employed firefighters at a minimal cost to them and their employers;#

4. (3)

   To assist the state and its counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions and the officers thereof in the investigation and determination of the causes of fires;#

5. (4)

   To develop new methods of fire prevention and fire fighting;#

6. (5)

   To provide facilities for testing fire-fighting and prevention equipment; and#

7. (6)

   To assist the state and its counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions in the training and operations of fire department-related emergency medical services and rescue services.#

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.