West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 87 - Fire Commission › Title 87 - LEGISLATIVE RULE FIRE COMMISSION › Series 87-10 - Volunteer Fire Department Equipment and Training Grant Funding Disbursement › Section 87-10-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Active
				Members" means an individual who performs the function of fire prevention and
				suppression, or vehicle and machinery extrications when responding to emergency
				situations. Depending on the level(s) of training the active member has
				completed, active members may also perform the tasks and duties of hazardous
				materials response and mitigation, technical rescue, emergency medical
				services, and any other duties that a specialized support member may provide if
				so trained.
2.2. "Approved
				Curriculum" means a curriculum for training approved by the West Virginia State
				Fire Commission.
2.3. "Chief" means
				the highest-ranking fire line officer in charge of a fire department.
2.4. "Department" means any volunteer fire
				fighting response organization regulated by the West Virginia State Fire
				Commission. Department includes a volunteer fire company or volunteer fire
				brigade, provided that: private or corporate fire brigades are exempt from this
				rule.
2.5. "Firefighter" means any
				active member of a fire department.
2.6. "Fire Commission" means the West
				Virginia State Fire Commission.
2.7. "Grantor" means a state spending unit
				awarding a state grant.
2.8.
				"Grantee" means any entity, to exclude individuals, receiving a state grant,
				including a state spending unit, local government, corporation, partnership,
				association, or other legal entity.
2.9. "NIMS" means the National Incident
				Management System.
2.10. "Person"
				means business, corporation, partnership, individual, or any other entity
				submitting a curriculum for approval.
2.11. "Report" means an engagement, such as
				an agreed upon procedures engagement or other attestation engagement, performed
				and prepared by a certified public accountant to test whether state grants were
				spent as intended. The term "report" does not mean a full scope audit or review
				of the person receiving state funds.
2.12. "State grant" means funding provided by
				a state spending unit, regardless of the original source of the funds, to a
				grantee upon application for a specific purpose. The term "state grant" does
				not include:
(A) Payments for goods and
				services purchased by a state spending unit;
(B) compensation to state employees and
				public officials;
(C) reimbursements
				to state employees and public officials for travel or incidental
				expenses;
(D) grants of student
				aid;
(E) government transfer
				payments;
(F) direct benefits
				provided under state insurance and welfare programs;
(G) funds reimbursed to a person for
				expenditures made for qualified purposes when receipts for the expenditures are
				required prior to receiving the funds;
(H) retirement benefits; and
(I) federal pass-through funds that are
				subject to the federal Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996,
				31
				U.S.C. §
											7501, et seq. The term "state
				grant" does not include formula distributions to volunteer and part-volunteer
				fire departments and fire companies made pursuant to § 33-3-14 d, §
				33-3-33, or § 33-12C-7 of this code and does not include money received
				from the Fire Service Equipment and Training Fund as provided in §
										29-3-5
				f of this code.