(a) Only those volunteers who have been certified by their contracting department as having satisfactorily completed a service year shall be credited with current service for that year. A member is not required to qualify in consecutive years.
(b) Members of departments contracting on or after the effective date of this chapter may initially be credited with a full service year if the board authorizes credit for that service and the member and his or her department satisfy the other requirements established by the board, including, but not limited to, certification by the department’s qualifications review commission.
(c) A satisfactory service year credit shall be determined by a member’s active participation in all of the following fire department activities.
(1) Training drills.
(2) Responses to emergency calls.
(3) Attendance at official department and association meetings.
(d) Contracting departments shall maintain adequate records to show that a credited member was a participating member of the department during the year of certification. The records may include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Department run logs.
(2) Department training records.
(3) Certificates of training.
(4) Records of exposures to hazardous products.
(5) Minutes of departmental or association meetings.
(Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 651, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008. Operative March 1, 2008, by Section 50979.)
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