North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 14B - Public Safety › Chapter 03 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › Section .0400 - NORTH CAROLINA SEARCH AND RESCUE SYSTEM › Section 03 .0409 - PERSONNEL, TRAINING, AND EQUIPMENT STANDARARDS FOR CONTRACT RESPONSE TEAMS AND SPECIALTY RESCUE TEAMS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a)
				Requirements for all system personnel:
(1)
				personnel shall be no less than 18 years of age;
(2) personnel shall be an employee of a
				Sponsoring Agency, Participating Agency, or an employee of the North Carolina
				Division of Emergency Management. By participating in this program, system
				personnel remain employees of their Sponsoring or Participating Agency and at
				no time become a State employee entitled to State benefits unless they are an
				employee of NCEM;
(3) personnel
				shall maintain no less than 24 hours of search and rescue training
				annually;
(4) while participating
				in any program activity personnel shall be considered emergency management
				workers, as defined in
				G.S.
				166A-19.60. and
(5) personnel shall possess the
				qualifications of character and general fitness requisite for a public servant
				and be of good moral character and entitled to the high regard and confidence
				of the public as evidenced by:
(A) not having
				been convicted by a local, state, federal, or military court of a
				felony;
(B) not having been
				convicted by a local, state, federal, or military court of a Class B
				Misdemeanor as defined in
				12 NCAC
				09A .0103(24)(b) which is
				adopted and incorporated by reference with subsequent changes or amendments
				pursuant to
				G.S.
				150B-21.6 in the previous five years or the
				completion of any corrections supervision imposed by the courts, whichever is
				later;
(C) not having been
				convicted of an offense by a local, state, federal, or military court that
				would prohibit the possession of a firearm or ammunition, under
				18 U.S.C.
				922, which is hereby incorporated by
				reference with subsequent amendments and editions pursuant to
				G.S.
				150B-21.6 can be found at no cost
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2018-title18/pdf/USCODE-2018-title18-partI-chap44.pdf
;
(D) being truthful in providing information
				to the appointing agency;
(E) not
				having pending or outstanding charges in a local, state, federal, or military
				court that, if convicted, would exclude eligibility under this Rule.
(6) make the following
				notifications:
(A) within seven days of the
				qualifying event, notify the Sponsoring Agency in writing of all criminal or
				traffic offenses for which the individual is charged or arrested;
(B) within seven days of the qualifying
				event, notify the Sponsoring Agency in writing of all criminal offenses for
				which the individual pleads no contest, pleads guilty, or of which the
				individual is convicted;
(C) within
				seven days of service, shall notify the Sponsoring Agency that he or she has
				been served by a judicial official;
(D) within seven days of the date the case
				was disposed of in court, the Sponsoring Agency, provided they have knowledge
				of system personnel's arrests or criminal charges and final dispositions, shall
				also notify NCEM of arrests or criminal charges and final disposition of the
				criminal charges against system personnel; and
(E) within seven days of the issuance of all
				Domestic Violence Protective Orders pursuant to G.S. 50B and Civil No Contact
				Orders pursuant to G.S. 50C, the sponsoring agency, provided they have
				knowledge of the order, shall also notify NCEM of these orders.