209.292. Board's powers and duties--evaluation team to be appointed, qualifications, expenses--removal from team, procedure.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

209.292. Board's powers and duties--evaluation team to be appointed, qualifications, expenses--removal from team, procedure.

Board's powers and duties--evaluation team to be appointed,qualifications, expenses--removal from team, procedure.

209.292. 1. The board shall, with the approval of the commission:

(1) Prescribe qualifications for each of the several levels ofcertification based on proficiency and shall evaluate and certifyinterpreters using such qualifications;

(2) Issue the certificates, bearing the signature of the executivedirector, necessary to qualify for a license to interpret;

(3) Develop a fee scale for interpreting services, pursuant tosection 161.405, RSMo;

(4) Maintain the quality of interpreting services, pursuant tosection 161.405, RSMo, by:

(a) Generating ideas for conducting interpreter training workshops toupdate knowledge and skills; and

(b) Suggesting institutions of higher education to provideinterpreter training programs;

(5) Develop specific guidelines for the use of interpreters accordingto their level of certification and submit the guidelines to the divisionand copies to be distributed to state departments, agencies, commissions,courts, interpreters and to the public;

(6) Develop ethical rules of conduct to be recommended for adoptionby the division;

(7) Develop fees for application, administration of an evaluation,conversion and certificate renewal, to cover the cost of the certificationsystem and administration;

(8) Compile a statewide registry of interpreters by skill level andinclude recommendations relating to the appropriate selection andutilization of interpreters for the deaf. The registry shall be madeavailable to and recommended for adoption by state commissions, departmentsand agencies;

(9) Develop a conversion system and policy for accepting othercertification systems into the certification offered by the Missouricommission for the deaf and hard of hearing;

(10) Develop acceptable professional development activities tomaintain certification;

(11) Investigate and implement the most appropriate testing model forinterpreter certification;

(12) When necessary, develop an evaluation team, appointed by thecommission, to assist in evaluating interpreters;

(13) Provide opportunity to hear grievances against the certificationprocess or one of its members using the guidelines established in chapter621, RSMo.

2. An evaluation team appointed pursuant to subdivision (12) ofsubsection 1 of this section shall have similar backgrounds to the membersof the board. The evaluation team shall serve at the pleasure of thecommission. The commission shall reimburse evaluators for actual andnecessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties andmay fairly compensate them. A member of an evaluation team may be removedfrom the team by the executive director, after notice and an opportunity tobe heard, for the following reasons: misconduct, inefficiency,incompetence or neglect of official duties.