Creation; Purposes

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Fire Protection and Safety
4. Georgia Fire Academy
5. Creation; Purposes

There is created the Georgia Fire Academy, the purposes of which shall be, through training and research:

1. To reduce the costs in suffering and property loss resulting from fire;
2. To provide professional training to paid, volunteer, and other publicly or privately employed firefighters at a minimal cost to them and their employers;
3. To assist the state and its counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions and the officers thereof in the investigation and determination of the causes of fires;
4. To develop new methods of fire prevention and fire fighting;
5. To provide facilities for testing fire-fighting and prevention equipment; and
6. To assist the state and its counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions in the training and operations of fire department-related emergency medical services and rescue services.

(Ga. L. 1976, p. 1725, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 660, § 4; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1259, § 11.)

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