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76-327.Training of firefighters; fire service training program; traveling instructors; federal aid. The university of Kansas shall, through its fire service training program, provide for a traveling instruction service to train firefighters in the jurisdictions of this state requesting such instruction. This fire service training program shall include training in appropriate subject matter related to fire service professional responsibilities and such other instruction as will provide the municipalities with better trained firefighters. Traveling instructors shall be employed who shall visit and instruct in such places as the director of fire service training of the Kansas university shall determine. The instructors shall be allowed actual and necessary traveling and hotel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and shall receive such salary as the university may deem appropriate. The university shall conduct an annual fire school. The university of Kansas shall have the authority to contract with existing training entities to deliver regional fire training. The university of Kansas is hereby authorized and empowered to accept any grants in aid that may be available from any federal agency. The university of Kansas shall have the authority to award certifications for fire and related emergency response personnel in fire service profession areas as prescribed by the national fire protection association and other applicable professional standards.

History: L. 1949, ch. 81, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 174, § 1; July 1.



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