Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 31 - Public Safety
Part 601 - BOARD OF EMERGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS AND TRAINING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL
Chapter 3 - Professional Certificates
Rule 31-601-3.3 - Procedures
Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 31-601-3.3
Current through September 24, 2024
1. All emergency telecommunications employers included under the Emergency Telecommunicator Training Program as described in this Policy and Procedures Manual should follow these steps in safekeeping certificates issued to their employees by the Board.
A. The employer, upon receiving the
certificate from the Board director, should record the certificate number and
the date issued in the employee's personnel file.
B. The certificate should remain in the
physical custody of the employer at a site which houses agency operations. The
employer may provide the employee with a photo static copy of the certificate.
C. The certificate, if defaced,
destroyed, misplaced, or stolen while in the stewardship of the employer, will
normally be replaced with a photo static copy. The production of duplicate
certificates shall be minimized. The staff will evaluate each incident prior to
the issuance of a duplicate certificate.
D. The employer should return the certificate
to the Board director, along with a complete "Termination/Reassignment
Report" form, within ten working days after:
1. The employee no longer meets all of the
qualifications for employment;
2.
The employee has been convicted, pled guilty, pled nolo contendere, ordered
into probation or pre-trial diversion or fined in relation to a crime that is
directly related to the duties and responsibilities of an emergency
telecommunicator. (the employer shall provide official documentation of such
conviction);
3. Receiving written
notice from the Board of evidence that the certificate was obtained through
misrepresentation or fraud;
4. The
employee dies, resigns, laterally transfers or is terminated;
5. The employee takes leave or is assigned
leave from actual performance of emergency telecommunicator duties from the
employer for any reason for an indefinite period or for a period planned to
last more than twelve months;
6.
Receiving written notice from the Board that the certificate shall be returned
for other due cause as determined by the Board.
E. The staff shall decide the disposition of
a certificate within a reasonable time after receiving notice that a
certificate has been returned. The Board may decide to:
1. Delay consideration of the return of the
certificate;
2. Inactivate the
certificate;
3. Assign stewardship
of the certificate to a new emergency telecommunicator employer or;
4. Cancel/recall a certificate, if issued in
error or through misrepresentation or fraud.
F. In the case of lateral transfer, the staff
shall forward the certificate to the appropriate employer.
G. The staff shall maintain the certificate
and all other file information of telecommunicators who have died or whose
certificates have been inactivated in the Board files.
H. When the staff has inactivated a
certificate because a telecommunicator:
1. Is
no longer in emergency telecommunications employment as described in this
Policy and Procedures Manual,
2.
Is on indefinite leave or leave for more than one year, or
3. For other reasons the Board director may
reactivate the certificate when the certified telecommunicator resumes
employment for the employer who returned the certificate or under a new
emergency telecommunicator employer included under the Emergency
Telecommunications Training Program. In either case, the employer may initiate
the reactivation process by forwarding a new Application for Certification
(Parts I, II and III) to the Board Director. The board director shall forward a
reactivated certificate to the employer.
I. When the certificate of a telecommunicator
certified by statute remains inactivated for more than four years, the
certificate shall lapse. Upon receiving a request to reactivate the
certificate, the board director shall notify the employer by letter that the
certificate has lapsed and that the employee must re-qualify for certification
by the board in order to be employed as a full-time emergency telecommunicator
for more than one year.
J. The
Professional Certificates issued by the Board shall expire three years from the
date of certification of the area(s) of discipline (911, EMS, fire, law
enforcement). At that time, the Board will require the telecommunicator to have
completed training in accordance with the existing standards for
re-certification (see Chapter 12: Re-Certification of Emergency
Telecommunicators).
K. The Board
hereby relegates to the staff the authority to certify and recertify all
emergency telecommunicators upon satisfactory completion and verification of
all requisite training.
L. The
board further authorizes the staff to issue Professional Certificates on the
first day of each month and furnish a list at the Board meetings for official
recognition of certification.
Miss Code Ann. § 19-5-353
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