Fees for this chapter must be retained for fire service training, and related training-center fees cannot exceed the state fire marshal’s rule-based fee schedule.
1. Fees assessed pursuant to this chapter shall be retained by the division of state fire marshal and such repayments received shall be used exclusively to offset the cost of fire service training. Fees charged by regional emergency response training centers for fire service training programs as described in section 100B.6 shall not be greater than the fee schedule established by rule by the state fire marshal. 2. Notwithstanding section 8.33, appropriated receipts, as defined in section 8.2, collected by the division of state fire marshal for the fire service training bureau that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. 3. A fire service training revolving fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the department of public safety. The fund shall consist of fees assessed pursuant to this section, and deposited into the fire service training revolving fund. All moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department of public safety for purposes of fire service training and shall be under the control of the state fire marshal. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditures for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. 2000 Acts, ch 1117, §11; 2006 Acts, ch 1179, §41, 67; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104; 2019 Acts, ch 163, §29 – 31; 2024 Acts, ch 1185, §132