§ 31-9-61 — Certified Local Emergency Management Director

(a)(1) The following requirements are established for the position of certified local emergency management director created herein:
a. Satisfactory completion of two years of college level education.
b. At least three years of work experience in the area of emergency response, emergency management, or qualified military service.
c. Two hundred hours of course work in emergency management as recommended by the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers and approved by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.
(2) Any individual who is serving as a local emergency management director on June 14, 2007, shall be deemed to satisfy the requirement for two years of college level education if he or she has a minimum five years’ work experience as a local emergency management director and he or she meets the requirement of paragraph (a)(1)c.
(b) Any local emergency management director meeting the standards set out in subsection (a) shall be granted the designation of local emergency management director without the completion of any further requirements unless the requirements are approved by the governing board of the Buddy Sharpless Education Institute established in Section 11-3-44.

Legislative History

(Act 2007-462, p. 968, §2; Act 2023-204, §1; Act 2025-49, §1.)