Minimum standards
Compiled text through Mar 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Mar 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Latest notice
- CJS-52-15-00018-A · Adopted rule · Apr 6, 2016
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)No basic course shall be approved by the commissioner that does not follow the minimum curriculum as prescribed by the council.
(b)No employer shall allow any correction officer it employs to carry or use a weapon during any phase of the officer’s official duties, which constitutes on-duty employment, unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training approved by the council in the use of deadly physical force and firearms and other weapons, and annually thereafter receives instruction in deadly physical force and the use of firearms and other weapons as approved by the council.
(c)Specific curriculum categories, respective titles/topics, and time allotments shall be established by the council and published by the commissioner.
(d)Only instructors certified in accordance with the provisions of Parts 6023 and/or 6024 of this Title may provide instruction in a basic course.
(e)Only course directors as defined in section 6018.1(b) of this Part may administer a basic course for corrections officers.