Ohio Administrative Code › Title 1501:31 - Division of Wildlife › Chapter 1501:31-29 - Hunter Safety and Trapper Education Courses › Section 1501:31-29-01 - Hunter education course student and instructor regulations

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
All hunter education courses will be conducted and administered
				in accordance with policies and procedures established by the chief. Volunteer
				instructors must possess a valid ohio hunter education instructor certification
				card at the time they conduct a course. The official course of instruction will
				be established by the chief. Instructors will obtain student manuals and other
				training materials for their courses from the division of wildlife. Courses
				shall be conducted statewide. Courses shall be free of charge with the
				exception that volunteers may charge nominal fees, in accordance with policies
				established by the chief, to cover training costs such as facility fees. The
				division may charge participants for special training courses, home study,
				equivalency testing, educational materials, and other programs as approved by
				the chief.
(A) First-time hunting
			 license buyers or first-time hunters who apply for a free hunting license shall
			 complete a hunter education course prior to obtaining a hunting license. The
			 course shall include, but not be limited to, the requirements in section
			 1533.10 of the Revised Code.
			 Completion of the course shall include passing of an examination and receiving
			 a certificate prescribed by the chief of the division of wildlife.
(B) A volunteer hunter education instructor
			 must be twenty-one years of age or older and shall have successfully completed
			 the Ohio hunter education course and the Ohio hunter education instructor
			 course as prescribed by the division of wildlife. In addition to the course
			 requirements in paragraph (A) of this rule, an instructor shall complete
			 instruction on teaching techniques, teaching fundamentals, and other methods of
			 instruction. Completion of the hunter education instructor course shall include
			 the passing of an examination and receiving a hunter education instructor
			 certification card prescribed by the chief of the division of wildlife. The
			 chief of the division of wildlife shall establish minimum requirements and
			 procedures for the purpose of renewing instructor certification cards.
			 Instructor certification may be withheld or withdrawn at the discretion of the
			 chief.
(C) Persons possessing and
			 producing a legally obtained "National Rifle Association hunter safety course"
			 card issued to a student prior to 1980, or any other legally obtained hunter
			 education card that identifies the owner and indicates the owner has completed
			 a hunter education course administered by another state or Canadian province
			 are considered to have equivalent training and may purchase a hunting license
			 upon presenting such card to an issuing agent.
(D) In lieu of presenting a previously
			 purchased hunting license or evidence of satisfactorily completing an approved
			 hunter education course, persons who are twenty-one years of age or older may
			 make application for and be issued a hunting license after stating on the
			 application that he or she is twenty-one years of age or older and has held a
			 previous hunting license. The division may also issue hunter education
			 certification cards through home-study programs, equivalent training
			 documentation, and testing, proficiency testing, or through other programs
			 established by the chief.
(E) No
			 person shall issue or give a hunter education certificate of completion to
			 another person that has not passed the division's hunter education course, or
			 otherwise met the requirements for certification as established by this rule
			 and division policy. No person shall obtain, use, or attempt to use a division
			 of wildlife hunter education certificate without first completing an authorized
			 division of wildlife hunter education course, or otherwise meeting the
			 requirements for certification as established by this rule and division policy.
			 Instructors will report the names and addresses of passing students to the
			 division immediately after each course. The division will be responsible for
			 maintaining records of students certified and issuing duplicate hunter
			 education student cards. The chief may prescribe a fee for issuing duplicate
			 hunter education student cards.
(F) Duly authorized and recognized
			 conservation clubs and sportsmen's clubs may apply to the chief of the division
			 of wildlife to conduct shoot-to-kill hunter education programs on private
			 lands. The chief, in his sole discretion, may approve shoot-to-kill hunter
			 education courses regardless of the season for young hunters under the age of
			 eighteen years. The chief shall issue a hunter education permit setting forth
			 such limitations, restrictions, or provisions as he deems appropriate in his
			 sole discretion.
The president of the conservation or sportsmen's club shall
				submit in writing a request at least thirty days prior to the event which
				shall:
(1) Fully describe the land on
			 which the course shall be taught;
(2) State the number of participants;
(3) State the species of animals
			 to be killed;
(4) Describe in
			 detail the conservation or sportsmen educational benefits from the course;
(5) State any further information
			 the chief may request.