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95A.230 Requirements for participation in fund.

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95A.230 Requirements for participation in fund. Each local government which meets the following requirements shall be eligible to share <br>in the distribution of funds from the fund: <br>(1) Employs one (1) or more firefighters. <br>(2) Pays every firefighter a minimum annual salary of eight thousand dollars (&#36;8,000). <br>(3) Maintains the minimum educational requirement of a high school degree, or its equivalent as determined by the commission, for employment of firefighters on or <br>after August 1, 1980. All firefighters employed prior to August 1, 1980, shall be <br>deemed to have met requirements of this subsection. (4) Requires all firefighters employed on or after July 15, 1982, to successfully complete a basic training course of a minimum of four hundred (400) hours <br>duration as mandated by the commission as to subject matter and number of hours <br>for each subject, within one (1) year of the date of employment at a school or <br>method certified or recognized by the commission. (5) Requires all firefighters, whether originally employed before or after August 1, 1980, to successfully complete in each calendar year an in-service training program <br>appropriate to the firefighters rank and responsibility, of at least one hundred (100) <br>hours duration at a school certified or recognized by the commission. This <br>requirement shall be waived for the period of time that a professional firefighter is <br>serving on active duty in the United States Armed Forces. This waiver shall be <br>retroactive for professional firefighters from the date of September 11, 2001. (6) Requires compliance with all provisions of law applicable to local firefighters. <br>(7) Requires compliance with all rules and regulations, appropriate to the size and location of the local fire department or fire prevention district, issued by the <br>commission to facilitate the administration of the fund and further the provisions of <br>KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300. Effective: June 24, 2003 <br>History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created 1980 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 373, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1980.