Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) The Commission
may use the services of volunteers to help carry out the duties and
responsibilities of the agency.
(1) Site
managers are responsible for documenting their volunteer program and recording
volunteer service to commission both on and off site. Volunteers will be
required to sign in and out to verify hours of service and their supervisor
will be required to record all program areas and task assignments to
volunteers.
(2) All volunteers will
be required to sign a waiver of liability.
(3) Volunteers may not drive agency vehicles
such as cars, trucks and vans. With the permission of the site manager and
proof of competency and insurance, a volunteer may operate equipment such as
mules, golf carts, tractors and riding mowers. Site staff may transport
volunteers in a state vehicle for purposes of carrying out their volunteer
assignment.
(b) The
Executive Director or his/her designee may waive site entrance fees and
overnight fees for a volunteer to assist in the accomplishment of the
volunteer's service to the agency.
(c) The Executive Director may expend funds
appropriated to the agency from dedicated funding sources for:
(1) Establishment of an insurance program to
protect volunteers in the performance of volunteer service; and
(2) Recognition of the services of a
volunteer or volunteer group.
(d) Volunteers may not speak on behalf of the
commission or its historic sites, or sign legal documents such as invoices,
receipts, or contracting documents. This does not prevent volunteers from
presenting historical information or interpretation to site/museum
visitors.
(e) Juvenile volunteers
are those persons between the ages of 12 and 18 who express a desire to
participate in a recognized volunteer program administered by the Commission at
state-owned historic sites and who have secured parental or guardian consent to
participate in these volunteer programs. No person under the age of 12 will be
permitted to participate in a Commission volunteer program unless the minor's
parent or guardian is present at the site and agrees to supervise the minor at
all times during the volunteer program.
(1)
Parental or Guardian Authorization.
(A) All
juvenile volunteers must have written authorization and waiver of liability
from a parent or guardian to participate in Commission's juvenile volunteer
program.
(B) Parental or guardian
authorization must be renewed annually or when the juvenile volunteer's
assignment of duties or tasks has been changed. If off-site assignments or
field trips are considered, separate written parental or guardian consent will
be required prior to the trip.
(2) Supervision.
(A) Commission supervisors or trained
volunteers will assign all juvenile volunteer duties, tasks, and
assignments.
(B) Juveniles may
participate in volunteer activities if they are under the direct control and
supervision of their parents or guardians, an experienced Commission staff
member, or an experienced adult volunteer.
(C) In case of an emergency, juvenile
volunteers will be treated as visitors, removed from the area of danger, and
prohibited from participating in or assigning with the emergency abatement
process. Juvenile volunteers may not return to their duties, tasks, or
assignments until the emergency has been abated and a Commission staff member
or other authorized personnel have determined that it is safe for the juvenile
volunteers to return to work.
(D)
Juvenile volunteers must wear safety equipment and clothing where deemed
necessary or required by law. Commission sites will provide juvenile volunteers
with required safety training and equipment.
(3) Training. After appropriate training by
an authorized Commission staff member, juvenile volunteers may work at all
duties and assignments, except those specifically prohibited by law or the
Commission listed in paragraph (4) of this subsection.
(4) Work Assignments. Juvenile volunteers may
not be assigned to work on or near hazardous projects or conditions or perform
difficult or strenuous tasks such as:
(A)
Specific duties on or around boats;
(B) Work involving fire, including but not
limited to tending, building, lighting, cooking over, extinguishing, and
blacksmithing;
(C) Operating
mechanical equipment or motor vehicles;
(D) Work under certain dangerous weather
conditions where the National Weather Bureau or local news media has warned the
locality that such conditions may prevail. This includes high winds, floods,
tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards. Juvenile volunteers must be provided shade or
other protection from sustained direct sun;
(E) Assignments involving weapons of any
kind, ammunition, or dangerous explosives, including hunting and military
demonstrations, without the presence and direct supervision of a parent or
guardian during the activity;
(F)
In the operation or management of hoisting equipment;
(G) In oiling or cleaning machinery in
motion;
(H) In the use of materials
with poisons or use dangerous or poisonous chemicals such as pesticides, lead
and acids; or
(I) Working in or
around activities where alcoholic beverages are served or handle alcoholic
beverages.
(5) Minors
under 16. A minor under 16 years of age may not do any of the following:
(A) Handle assignments involving
manufacturing or mechanical processes;
(B) Participate in demonstrations using
weapons, ammunition, dangerous explosives or black powder;
(C) Work on a ladder or
scaffolding;
(D) Engage in heavy
work in the building trades;
(E)
Operate a motor vehicle of any description;
(F) Work in animal care or handling;
or
(G) Operate power lawn mowing
equipment.
(6) Juvenile
volunteers may not supervise any employee, other volunteer or program
participant.
