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

Current through June 25, 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.