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Jefferson City
Title 7 : Fire Protection and Fireworks
Chapter 3 : Fire Department

7-305 : Training and salary incentive program.

  1. To ensure that adequately trained personnel are available to handle Jefferson City fire related emergencies, the city is hereby sponsoring


    1. Forty (40) of annual in-service training, approved by the Tennessee Fire Fighting Commission, and
    2. A program to certify full-time personnel for basic fire fighter training.
  2. The city manager is directed to see that a forty hour annual in-service training program, approved by the Tennessee Fire Fighting Commission, is developed and that each full-time firefighter successfully completes the in-service training. The State of Tennessee provides a $450 annual salary supplement for all full-time fire fighters who complete the training.
  3. The city manager is directed to see that the certification program, under the Tennessee Fire Fighting Commission, is set up in the Jefferson City Fire Department.
  4. Existing personnel, who have had parallel training in basic fire fighting, are required, as a minimum, to successfully pass the test given by the Tennessee Fire Fighting Commission for certification as a fire fighter II. Each fire fighter who successfully passes the test and is certified by the Tennessee Fire Fighting Commission shall be automatically advanced one step in pay grade. Full-time fire fighters will be allowed to repeat a maximum of three times.
  5. Fire fighter recruits, who are not certified by the commission, shall be required to pass the test for certification as fire fighter I at the end of one year, and they may repeat the test a maximum of three times. At the end of the second year of employment, the fire fighter recruit must pass the fire fighter II test. The test may be repeated a maximum of three times.
  6. Volunteer fire fighters may participate in in-service training and certification courses and testing, and the city will pay materials expenses. Since volunteer fire fighters do not receive a salary, neither the state nor the city is authorized to pay salary supplements to volunteers. (1996 Code, § 7-305, modified)