Georgia Code
Chapter 4 - Firefighter Standards and Training
§ 25-4-7. Functions and Powers of Council and Volunteer Council

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.
The 2016 amendment, effective April 26, 2016, substituted “fire inspectors, fire investigators, and other such firefighting service professionals as determined by the council” for “fire inspectors, and fire investigators,” in the middle of paragraph (4); and inserted “contract,” in paragraph (9).
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, designated the existing provisions as subsection (a); substituted “firefighters, part-time firefighters,” for “part-time or volunteer firefighters” in paragraphs (a)(4) and (a)(5); inserted a comma following “council” in paragraph (a)(4); inserted “full-time and part-time” twice in paragraph (a)(6); substituted “firefighter” for “fire-fighting” in paragraph (a)(7); substituted “and contract firefighters” for “contract, and volunteer firefighters” in paragraph (a)(9); substituted “subsection” for “Code section” in paragraph (a)(10); and added subsections (b) and (c).
Editor’s notes.
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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