Rule 31-601-3.3 - Procedures1. 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.31 Miss. Code. R. 601-3.3
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