KRS 237.122: Program for certification of firearms instructors for concealed deadly

weapon program -- Qualification and certification requirements -- In-service

training -- Fees.

(1) The Department of Criminal Justice Training shall operate and maintain a pro gram

for certification of firearms instructors for the concealed deadly weapon training

program. Only the General Assembly may eliminate the certified firearms instructor

program.

(2) Training courses for certification of firearms instructors shall be cond ucted by

firearms instructor trainers and the department.

(3) An applicant to be a firearms instructor shall hold a concealed deadly weapon

license issued pursuant to KRS 237.110, and successfully complete a firearms

instructor training course of not more than sixteen (16) hours provided by a certified

firearms instructor trainer.

(4) Certification as a firearms instructor shall be valid for a period of three (3) years

during which an instructor shall:

(a) Conduct or assist in at least one (1) applicant training course;

(b) Attend an instructor trainer/instructor in -service training course of not more

than four (4) hours conducted by the department; and

(c) Not have become ineligible to be a firearms instructor.

(5) The department shall conduct in -service training for firearms instructor trainers and

certified firearms instructors as specified in KRS 237.120.

(6) At the end of the certification period, the department shall issue a new firearms

instructor certification to any person who has completed the provi sions of this

section, unless the firearms instructor notifies the department in writing that he or

she desires not to be recertified or is otherwise ineligible to be recertified. There

shall be no charge for recertification. A firearms instructor who has permitted his or

her certification to expire may take the in -service course and be recertified for a

period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of expiration of the

certification without having to repeat the requirements of subsection (3) of thi s

section.

(7) An instructor trainer shall charge a fee not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars

($150) for a training course for a certified firearms instructor. The instructor shall

remit fifty dollars ($50) to the department to defray the cost of materia ls which the

department shall provide to the instructor.

(8) No firearms instructor trainer or certified firearms instructor shall charge a fee in

excess of seventy-five dollars ($75) for the conduct of an applicant training course.

An instructor trainer o r certified firearms instructor may charge a student the actual

cost of range use, targets and associated range materials, and classroom rental not to

exceed ten dollars ($10) for all of the items specified in this subsection. The

instructor trainer or certified firearms instructor shall remit twenty-five dollars ($25)

per student to the department to cover the provision of training materials distributed

and providing evidence of successful completion of the course.

(9) No portion of a fee collected pursuan t to this section shall be refunded to a student

who fails or does not complete the required course of instruction.