KRS 95A.230: Requirements for participation in fund.

Each local government which meets the following requirements shall be eligible to share

in the distribution of funds from the fund:

(1) Employs one (1) or more firefighters.

(2) Pays every firefighter a minimum annual salary of eight thousand dollars ($8,000).

(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

after August 1, 1980. All firefighters employed prior to August 1, 1980, shall be

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 four hundred (400) hours duration or a lesser

duration as established by the commission purs uant to KRS 95A.240(5) as

mandated by the commission as to subject matter and number of hours for each

subject, within one (1) year of the date of employment at a school or method

certified or recognized by the commission. The training requirement may be m et

through training and educational programs of a local government conducting its

own annual in -service training school certified or recognized by the commission

which may provide a different number of hours of instruction as established in KRS

95A.240.

(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

appropriate to the firefighters rank and responsibility, of one hundred (100) hours

duration or a lesser duration as established by the commission pursuant to KRS

95A.240(5) at a school certified or recognized by the commission. This requirement

shall be waived for the period of time that a professional firefighter is serving on

active duty in the United States Armed Forces. This waiver shall be retroactive for

professional firefighters from the date of September 11, 2001.

(6) Requires compliance with all provisions of law applicable to local firefighters.

(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

commission to facilitate the administration of the fund and further the provisions of

KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300.