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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" citation="COMAR 12.10.01.11" title_num="12" subtitle_num="10" chapter_num="01" heading="Successful Completion of Commission-Approved Mandated Employee Entrance-Level Training.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The training director, or a designee, shall conduct testing to verify that each individual attending Commission-approved mandated employee entrance-level training has learned or can perform each of the Commission's performance objectives in each subject area required for the applicable mandated position.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A training director, or a designee, may use a single question or demonstration to test an individual for knowledge or performance of:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A single Commission performance objective; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Multiple Commission performance objectives.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>An individual attending Commission-approved entrance-level training for certification in a mandated position shall achieve a score of 75 percent on each test or demonstration to be eligible for certification by the Commission in the mandated position.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>An individual attending Commission-approved entrance-level training for certification in a mandated position who is absent for more than 10 percent of the training may not be certified by the Commission unless the academy director determines that the individual has completed sufficient work.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A training director of an academy conducting Commission-approved entrance-level training for certification in a mandated position may require the individual attending to meet entrance-level training requirements, standards, and objectives that exceed entrance-level training requirements, standards, and objectives required by the Commission.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Once an individual completes Commission-approved mandated employee entrance-level training, the training director, or a designee, shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Report to the Commission, in a format determined by the Commission, the results of each individual attending the training for certification in a mandated position; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Maintain records of the tests and testing procedures for each individual attending the training.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Failure to Successfully Complete Mandated Employee Entrance-Level Training.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If an individual attending Commission-approved mandated employee entrance-level training does not meet the requirements for successful completion of the training:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The training director, or a designee, shall notify the individual's agency head; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The Commission may not certify the individual in the applicable mandated position.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>An agency head may request in writing that the Deputy Director permit an individual who does not successfully complete Commission-approved entrance-level training for certification in a mandated position to attend one additional Commission-approved entrance-level training to attempt to meet the Commission's requirements for entrance-level training for the same mandated position.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>