| (a) The Commission may use the services of volunteers
to help carry out the duties and responsibilities of the agency.
(1) Site managers are responsible for documenting their
volunteer program and recording volunteer service to commission both
on and off site. Volunteers will be required to sign in and out to
verify hours of service and their supervisor will be required to record
all program areas and task assignments to volunteers.
(2) All volunteers will be required to sign a waiver
of liability.
(3) Volunteers may not drive agency vehicles such as
cars, trucks and vans. With the permission of the site manager and
proof of competency and insurance, a volunteer may operate equipment
such as mules, golf carts, tractors and riding mowers. Site staff
may transport volunteers in a state vehicle for purposes of carrying
out their volunteer assignment.
(b) The Executive Director or his/her designee may
waive site entrance fees and overnight fees for a volunteer to assist
in the accomplishment of the volunteer's service to the agency.
(c) The Executive Director may expend funds appropriated
to the agency from dedicated funding sources for:
(1) Establishment of an insurance program to protect
volunteers in the performance of volunteer service; and
(2) Recognition of the services of a volunteer or volunteer
group.
(d) Volunteers may not speak on behalf of the commission
or its historic sites, or sign legal documents such as invoices, receipts,
or contracting documents. This does not prevent volunteers from presenting
historical information or interpretation to site/museum visitors.
(e) Juvenile volunteers are those persons between the
ages of 12 and 18 who express a desire to participate in a recognized
volunteer program administered by the Commission at state-owned historic
sites and who have secured parental or guardian consent to participate
in these volunteer programs. No person under the age of 12 will be
permitted to participate in a Commission volunteer program unless
the minor's parent or guardian is present at the site and agrees to
supervise the minor at all times during the volunteer program.
(1) Parental or Guardian Authorization.
(A) All juvenile volunteers must have written authorization
and waiver of liability from a parent or guardian to participate in
Commission's juvenile volunteer program.
(B) Parental or guardian authorization must be renewed
annually or when the juvenile volunteer's assignment of duties or
tasks has been changed. If off-site assignments or field trips are
considered, separate written parental or guardian consent will be
required prior to the trip.
(2) Supervision.
(A) Commission supervisors or trained volunteers will
assign all juvenile volunteer duties, tasks, and assignments.
(B) Juveniles may participate in volunteer activities
if they are under the direct control and supervision of their parents
or guardians, an experienced Commission staff member, or an experienced
adult volunteer.
(C) In case of an emergency, juvenile volunteers will
be treated as visitors, removed from the area of danger, and prohibited
from participating in or assigning with the emergency abatement process.
Juvenile volunteers may not return to their duties, tasks, or assignments
until the emergency has been abated and a Commission staff member
or other authorized personnel have determined that it is safe for
the juvenile volunteers to return to work.
(D) Juvenile volunteers must wear safety equipment
and clothing where deemed necessary or required by law. Commission
sites will provide juvenile volunteers with required safety training
and equipment.
(3) Training. After appropriate training by an authorized
Commission staff member, juvenile volunteers may work at all duties
and assignments, except those specifically prohibited by law or the
Commission listed in paragraph (4) of this subsection.
(4) Work Assignments. Juvenile volunteers may not be
assigned to work on or near hazardous projects or conditions or perform
difficult or strenuous tasks such as:
(A) Specific duties on or around boats;
(B) Work involving fire, including but not limited
to tending, building, lighting, cooking over, extinguishing, and blacksmithing;
(C) Operating mechanical equipment or motor vehicles;
(D) Work under certain dangerous weather conditions
where the National Weather Bureau or local news media has warned the
locality that such conditions may prevail. This includes high winds,
floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards. Juvenile volunteers must
be provided shade or other protection from sustained direct sun;
(E) Assignments involving weapons of any kind, ammunition,
or dangerous explosives, including hunting and military demonstrations,
without the presence and direct supervision of a parent or guardian
during the activity;
(F) In the operation or management of hoisting equipment;
(G) In oiling or cleaning machinery in motion;
(H) In the use of materials with poisons or use dangerous
or poisonous chemicals such as pesticides, lead and acids; or
(I) Working in or around activities where alcoholic
beverages are served or handle alcoholic beverages.
(5) Minors under 16. A minor under 16 years of age
may not do any of the following:
(A) Handle assignments involving manufacturing or mechanical
processes;
(B) Participate in demonstrations using weapons, ammunition,
dangerous explosives or black powder;
(C) Work on a ladder or scaffolding;
(D) Engage in heavy work in the building trades;
(E) Operate a motor vehicle of any description;
(F) Work in animal care or handling; or
(G) Operate power lawn mowing equipment.
(6) Juvenile volunteers may not supervise any employee,
other volunteer or program participant.
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