(2) The program shall:
(a) Provide towed watersports safety education;
(b) Issue and renew towed watersports endorsements;
(c) Issue and renew towed watersports motorboat certificates in the form of decals;
(d) Develop and promote towed watersports safety promotions, best practices and public education;
(e) Address wave energy management techniques and operator responsibilities for accident and property damage prevention; and
(f) Compile information regarding the make, model, length, dry gross weight and maximum factory ballast capacity specifications of motor boats for which the towed watersports motorboat decal was issued.
(3) In establishing towed watersports safety education as part of the towed watersports endorsement, the board shall:
(a) Set a minimum standard of competency. The board may review and update the minimum standard of competency as necessary.
(b) Create a towed watersports endorsement course and towed watersports endorsement examination designed to educate and test for the minimum standard of competency under paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(c) Create an equivalency examination that may substitute for taking the towed watersports endorsement course.
(d) Allow use of commercially provided towed watersports endorsement courses provided the courses meet the standard adopted by the board.
(e) Establish a fee under ORS 830.646 for the issuance and renewal of towed watersports endorsements. [2019 c.651 §2]