(1) Individuals providing the services of guides, trip leaders, or guide instructors shall have the following minimum qualifications and such additional qualifications as the commission may establish by rule:
Guides shall be eighteen years of age or older, possess a valid standard first-aid card,be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and have fifty hours of training on the river as a guide from a qualified guide instructor.
Trip leaders shall be eighteen years of age or older, possess a valid standard first-aidcard, be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and have logged at least five hundred river miles, of which at least two hundred fifty river miles shall have been logged while acting as a qualified guide and no more than two hundred fifty river miles shall have been logged while acting as a guide on nonregulated trips. Miles from nonregulated trips shall be documented and signed by the trip leader under penalty of perjury, and the licensee shall retain the documents during the term of the trip leader's employment.
Guide instructors shall be eighteen years of age or older, possess a valid standardfirst-aid card, be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and have logged at least fifteen hundred river miles, of which at least seven hundred fifty river miles shall have been logged while acting as a qualified guide.
(2) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2010, (HB 10-1221), ch. 353, p. 1642, § 7, effective August 11, 2010.)
Source: L. 88: Entire section added, p. 1171, § 7, effective October 1. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1228, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2010: Entire section amended, (HB 10-1221), ch. 353, p. 1642, § 7, effective August 11. L. 2012: IP(1) amended, (HB 12-1317), ch. 248, p. 1230, § 75, effective June 4.