Alabama Code Title 36. Public Officers and Employees § 36-19-7

The Fire Marshal may, in addition to the provisions of Section 36-19-3, appoint any person or persons who may be known to him as being competent and skilled in making such inspections of buildings and their contents as deputy inspectors in this department. Such deputy inspectors shall have all the powers of other deputies and assistants to enter any building or premises to make inspection of such buildings and their contents and to report such inspections in writing to the office of the Fire Marshal where they find faulty or hazardous conditions. Such deputy inspector shall be duly commissioned and shall serve without compensation.