(a) Upon the receipt of a grant from the incentive program, the local board of education shall distribute the grant funds as a stipend to the qualifying athletic trainer.

Terms Used In Alabama Code 34-40-35

  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(1) If multiple athletic trainers provided an average of at least 25 hours of athletic training services per week to a secondary school during the academic school year, the local board of education shall evenly divide the funds from the incentive program among the athletic trainers.
(2) An athletic trainer may only receive one stipend from the incentive program per school year. Once an athletic trainer is awarded a stipend pursuant to this act, he or she shall not be eligible for another incentive program stipend until the next school year, even if he or she provided athletic training services to multiple schools.
(b) The local board of education is limited to one successful grant application per secondary school each school year.