Legal Issues
This law is established in the appeals-level courts and relied on in future cases.
What is Common Law?
The process by which an organization continually seeks out best practices in all areas.
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What is continuous improvement?
This law requires competitive bidding to ensure that the lowest possible price is received.
What is Bid Laws?
A system of moral principals determining what is right versus what is wrong.
What is ethics?
Standards that are an extensive compilation of provisions covering a broad subject matter or that are suitable for adoption into law independently of other codes.
What are codes?
Legal principal that states that a unit of local government has only as much authority as the state legislature grants to the local government or that can be implied as a result of the grant of power.
What is Dillion's Rule?
A statement of principal used to guide decisions and actions.
What is a policy?
The element of perceived fairness.
What is equity?
A style of leadership in which those in leadership positions demonstrate the appropriate relationship between the leader's behavior and the follower's readiness to act in a particular aspect of a situation.
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What is situational leadership?
A temporary assignment of qualified personnel to watch for and control fire hazards and notify the fire department if a fire occurs.
What is a Fire Watch?
The opportunity to know the charges, to be heard, and to have evidence fairly considered prior to suspension, demotion, or termination.
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What is Due Process?
A complete assessment of risk factors including potential, consequence, frequency, and ability to mitigate.
What is a Risk Assessment?
The budgetary phase during which the budget is created within the agency.
What is the Formulation Phase?
A multidisciplinary interaction among people and their organization.
What is behavior?
A letter the fire safety specialist provides to a building's owner/occupant that lists all the concerns or violations, where they are located, why they are a concern, and when they should be corrected.
What is a letter of concern?
This kind of negligence is an unintentional act that causes injury.
What is Ordinary negligence?
The method used to achieve compliance with the principal a policy describes.
What is a procedure?
The sharing of collected funds between government agencies.
What is revenue sharing?
A style of leadership in which one considers oneself a servant first and a leader second.
What is Servant Leadership?
State-approved codes that adopt the minimum and maximum of local codes.
What is mini-max fire codes?
This warning is a verbal warning given to the subject of a disciplinary interrogation that informs the subject that he is required to answer all questions and that he is being given immunity from criminal prosecution for those answers.
What is the Garrity Warning?
This is a type of insurance coverage for job-related injuries (a statutory requirement).
What is Workers' Compensation?
This is the levying of revenue requests on those charged with supporting government operations.
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What is taxation?
The ability to get something done by someone else because that person wants to do it.
What is leadership?
A formal written notice served to an owner, operator, occupant, or other such person responsible for a fire code violation. There is potential for civil or criminal action to be taken if the violation is ignored.
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What is notice of violation?