Georgia Code
Chapter 4 - Firefighter Standards and Training
§ 25-4-2. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term:
(5.1) “Fire department” shall have the same meaning as provided in Code Section 25-3-21.
(8.1) “Recruit” means a prospective firefighter who has not yet been certified or registered by the council as having met the requirements of Code Section 25-4-8 and the rules and regulations to be a firefighter as provided for by the council.
History. Ga. L. 1971, p. 693, § 2; Ga. L. 1987, p. 373, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 888, § 4; Ga. L. 2005, p. 619, § 1/SB 308; Ga. L. 2008, p. 243, § 2/SB 414; Ga. L. 2016, p. 64, § 2/HB 727; Ga. L. 2020, p. 515, § 4/SB 342.
The 2016 amendment, effective April 26, 2016, inserted “a recruit or” near the beginning of paragraph (6); and added paragraph (8.1).
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, substituted “‘on an hourly or salaried basis,” for “by” in paragraph (9) and added paragraph (10).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1980, p. 1242, § 1 purported to amend this Code section. However, since it has been determined that the 1980 Act, which dealt with airport firefighters, was intended to be a new Act (see Editor’s note at Art. 2 of this chapter), § 1 of the 1980 Act was codified at § 25-4-30 , which was subsequently repealed by Ga. L. 2005, p. 619, § 4/SB 308, effective July 1, 2005.
Ga. L. 2008, p. 243, § 1/SB 414, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘2008 Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council Act.’ ”
Law reviews.
For article on the 2016 amendment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 55 (2016).

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