(1) To provide professional and volunteer firefighters with needful professional instruction and training in subjects, including, but not limited to, firefighting, fire prevention, hazardous materials, urban search and rescue, and emergency operations, at a minimum of cost to them and to their employers.
(2) To ensure the professionalism and competence of those performing firefighting, fire prevention, and associated fire protection functions by administering a system of certification and licensing.
(3) To develop new methods and practices of firefighting and fire prevention.
(4) To assist the state and county, municipal, and other local governments of this state and their agencies and officers in their investigation and determination of the causes of fires.
(5) To provide testing facilities for testing firefighting equipment.
(6) To disseminate useful information on fires, firefighting and fire prevention and other related subjects, to fire departments and others interested in such information.
(7) To do such other needful or useful things necessary to the promotion of public safety in the field of fire hazards and fire prevention work.
It is declared by the Legislature that the above purposes are legitimate state functions and are designed to promote public safety.
History.—s. 4, ch. 25097, 1949; s. 1, ch. 75-151; s. 242, ch. 79-400; s. 19, ch. 95-379; s. 68, ch. 2013-183.
Note.—Former s. 163.533; s. 633.44.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 633 - Fire Prevention and Control
Part IV - Fire Standards and Training (Ss. 633.402-633.446)
633.404 - Additional standards authorized.
633.406 - Classes of certification.
633.408 - Firefighter and volunteer firefighter training and certification.
633.412 - Firefighters; qualifications for certification.
633.414 - Retention of firefighter and volunteer firefighter certifications.
633.415 - Lifetime Firefighter designation.
633.416 - Firefighter employment and volunteer firefighter service; saving clause.
633.418 - Inservice training and promotion; participation.
633.422 - Firefighters; supplemental compensation.
633.424 - Falsification of qualifications.
633.426 - Disciplinary action; standards for revocation of certification.
633.428 - Florida State Fire College established.
633.432 - Purpose of fire college.
633.434 - Superintendent of college.
633.436 - Use of Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund.
633.438 - Procedure for making expenditures.
633.442 - Buildings, equipment, and other facilities; use.
633.444 - Division powers and duties; Florida State Fire College.