When a full-time law enforcement officer or full-time firefighter employed by the state, by any county, or by any municipality, a volunteer firefighter, or a rescue squad member is or was killed or becomes totally disabled in the line of duty, free tuition for undergraduate study at any state college, state community college, state junior college, state technical college, in the State of Alabama, and other costs officially prescribed for the classes in the course of study, shall be paid for the following:

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 36-21-102

• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

a. Any dependent child, natural or adopted, under 21 years of age at the time of death or total disability; any dependent natural child under the age of 21 born after the death of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member; or any dependant child, natural or adopted, under 21 years of age who is born or adopted after the total disability of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member.

b. Notwithstanding paragraph a., to receive benefits under this section an adopted dependent shall have been adopted, and resided in the household of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member, for at least five years prior to enrollment in undergraduate study.