| FIRE FIGHTERS |
| A person appointed to serve as a volunteer assistant fire marshal is not, as an automatic consequence of the appointment, a reserve law enforcement officer | GA-0853 |
| Benefits under chapter 615 of the Government Code, we will not speculate on the meaning a court would give to the phrase "continued health insurance benefits" given the latent ambiguity in section 615.073 and the circumstances by which a surviving spouse becomes eligible for | GA-0822 |
| Car allowance, whether fire fighter retirement system may exclude from definition of compensation for purpose of calculating contribution and benefits | LO95-089 |
| Certification of fire department head or part-time, temporary employee | LO93-113 |
| Citizenship requirement, authority of civil service commission to impose for beginning fire fighters | JC-0143 |
| City employees who are participating in the Texas Municipal Retirement System, board of trustees of a fire fighters retirement system may not elect to include within the system | LO98-090 |
| Civil service coverage, application to certain members of municipal fire department | GA-0041 |
| Collective bargaining agreement between fire fighters and municipality, whether terms may prevail over statute | LO95-019 |
| Collective bargaining, city and fire fighters association may not negotiate to exclude from collective bargaining unit certain high ranking fire fighters | LO98-102 |
| Conflicts of interest, dual office holding, and common-law incompatibility doctrine, firefighter simultaneously holding office of city council member | GA-0826 |
| Constable not barred by common-law incompatibility from serving as municipal fire fighter | JC-0270 |
| Conveyances of personal and real property from general-law municipality to volunteer fire fighting associations, validity not affected by fact that city council member simultaneously served on fire fighting association board nor by council member's possib | GA-0084 |
| County commissioner may serve as volunteer fire fighter | JC-0385 |
| Delete time from the military leave-time account, a municipality may not | GA-0174 |
| Device having the appearance of a fire hydrant, water company’s authority to paint it black | GA-0710 |
| Fair Labor Standards Act, members of Huntsville Volunteer Fire Department are excepted from coverage of | LO92-054 |
| Final say on where to land a helicopter at a traffic accident scene, a helicopter pilot rather than a sheriff’s office or fire department would always have the | GA-0859 |
| Fire chief’s authority to appoint deputies in civil service municipalities that adopt the Fire and Police Employee Relations Act; reaffirming Attorney General Opinion GA-0662 (2008) | GA-0771 |
| Fire chief’s authority to appoint deputies in civil service municipalities that adopt the Fire and Police Employees Relations Act | GA-0662 |
| Fire fighter's pension plan changes, whether they violate article III, section 53 of the Texas Constitution | LO97-113 |
| Fire protection personnel, "member of the fire department" means an employee who is defined as | GA-0027 |
| Fire Protection, Commission on, may provide reimbursement for room and board as part of scholarship for students who attend a fire fighters training school, and may also fund room and board for fire fighters who attend the school under a Texas Forest Serv | GA-0296 |
| Fire science courses offered at institutions of higher education, "fire science" is a technical term referring to courses that fall within a designated fire science curriculum as well as courses primarily related to fire service, emergency medicine, emergency management, or public administration regardless of whether those courses fall within the curriculum designed as "fire science" | GA-0397 |
| Houston Community College, to the extent that it assesses a fee for its operation, that fee would be tuition and a fire fighter exempt from paying tuition would have to pay that non-tuition fee | GA-0397 |
| Impose fee for applicant to take fire department civil service promotional examination, commission may not impose such a fee because civil service commission lacks express statutory authority to | GA-0842 |
| Insurance and benefits coverage, when a municipal fire fighter is called for military duty a municipality must maintain, but only on the terms in effect when the employee received the call which may include the employees' obligations to pay their portion | GA-0174 |
| Junior college district may not charge tuition to fire fighters, regardless of residence | LO90-083 |
| Lump sum payment to fire fighters, municipality must include full compensation and benefits in | LO90-072 |
| Member of city council barred from simultaneously serving as volunteer fire fighter | JC-0199 |
| Military leave of absence, authority of civil service commission, when a police officer or fire fighter returns from a military leave of absence, to demote officers who had advanced in rank because of the military leave of absence | GA-0325 |
| Military leave-time account, municipal fire fighters are entitled to donate any amount of leave to their department's military leave-time account that they would be entitled to use for themselves | GA-0174 |
| Municipal pension plan merger with Statewide Volunteer Fire Fighters' Retirement Fund, "unfunded prior-service cost" does not include benefits received by retired fire fighters | LO95-075 |
| Municipalities with both a paid police department and a paid fire department, chapter 143 of the Local Government Code (civil service law) applies only to | LO93-006 |
| Noncivil service fire fighters, city may not appoint to fire fighting duties at race track | LO98-012 |
| Office of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner, authority to charge fee to participating departments in retirement system | GA-0272 |
| Office, assistant fire chief of City of Houston Fire Department does not hold and therefore is not subject to constitutional dual office holding prohibitions or common-law doctrine of incompatibility | DM-0156 |
| Payroll deduction under the Fire and Police Employee Relations Act, general-law city with population below 10,000 has implicit authority to provide | GA-0625 |
| Pension contract between governmental body and volunteer fire fighters may not provide for payment of monthly annuity at rate greater than rate specified by law | LO92-011 |
| Pension system under article 6243e.3, Revised Civil Statutes, volunteer fire department may not withdraw unless fire department has designated or created a replacement pension plan | LO96-054 |
| Pension system, volunteer fire department that was not in pension system prior to joining must comply with withdrawal procedures set forth in article 6243e.3, Revised Civil Statutes | LO96-054 |
| Police officer's or fire fighter's confidential personnel file may be released to city manager and city attorney with consent of chief executive and governing body of municipality | JC-0283 |
| Position classification system, application in municipality that has not adopted civil service system | LO96-027 |
| Reserve law enforcement officers, a county commissioners court and county fire marshal lack authority to commission or appoint volunteer assistant fire marshals as | GA-0853 |
| Retirement benefit under section 143.073(b) of the Local Government Code for fire fighters and police officers injured or becoming ill in the line of duty is available only if pension fund is exclusively for fire fighters or police officers rather than al | JC-0310 |
| Retirement fund, board of trustees may not delegate all discretionary authority to investment manager | LO92-037 |
| Rules adopted by fire and police civil service commission, authority of city to approve, reject, or review | DM-0447 |
| Rural fire prevention district may not distribute funds to fire departments but may contract with them to provide services | LO92-028 |
| Security lending agreements, trustees of municipal fire fighters retirement fund not authorized to enter into with corporate borrower | JM-1210 |
| Sheriff, service as member of volunteer fire department is permissible | LO93-054 |
| Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act, city employees who are eligible to participate in a fire fighters retirement system pursuant to the act are not eligible to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System | LO98-090 |
| Trade association, whether Texas Fire Chiefs' Association, Texas State Association of Fire Fighters, State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas, or Texas Association of Fire Educators is | JC-0067 |
| Training requirements, volunteers who work for volunteer fire department that is not a division of a local government are not subject to regulatory; employees of fire department that is a department of a local government may be subject to | JM-1251 |
| Tuition and laboratory fees at public junior colleges and four-year colleges and universities, a fire fighter is exempt from paying | GA-0397 |
| Tuition for fire fighters enrolled in fire science courses, fire fighter seeking exemption from tuition need not be pursuing a degree in fire science and may already have a degree in fire science
| GA-0397 |
| Vacation days, eligibility of fire fighters in city of greater than 30,000 population to | DM-0270 |
| Volunteer assistant fire marshal, the statutory definition of "reserve law enforcement officer" does not include a | GA-0853 |
| Whether a civilian advisory committee may review information maintained in a police department personnel file under Texas Local Government Code section 143.089(g) will depend on specific facts | GA-0818 |
| Written reprimand may not be retained in civil-service director's file that is open to the public unless the misconduct at issue in the written reprimand results in disciplinary action | JC-0257 |
| Written reprimand, as a matter of state law a civil-service commission is not subject to chapters G, H, I, or J of chapter 143 of the Local Government Code and has no jurisdiction to consider appeal of | JC-0257 |
| Compensation, Benefits, and Reimbursement of Expenses |
| Provision of health insurance benefits to surviving spouse of municipal fire fighter under Government Code section 615.073 | KP-0214 |
| Required appearance as witness before civil service commission, fire fighters are not entitled to payment from municipality for | GA-0612 |
