(1) To be awarded the public safety communications officer basic certificate, a person:

(a) shall have successfully completed a 40hour public safety communications officers basic course as provided by MLEA or equivalent training as determined by the POST advisory council; and

(b) shall have served at least six months with the present employment agency and shall be satisfactorily performing his/her duties as attested to by the head of that agency.

(2) Communications officers who have successfully met the minimum employment standards and who have successfully completed a 40 or 80 hour public safety communicators basic training course at MLEA from November 1984 through November 1991 are eligible for their basic certificate.

(3) A communications officer who has successfully met the employment standards and qualifications and the educational requirements of this rule and who has completed a six month term of employment shall, upon application to the POST advisory council, be issued a basic certificate by the council certifying that the communications officer has met all the basic qualifying public safety communications officer standards of this state.