§69.6.  Probation

A.  An auxiliary agent who has satisfied the minimum training standards required in R.S. 56:69.5, shall be commissioned as a junior auxiliary agent and shall serve as such for a probationary period of one year.  This probationary period shall provide the junior auxiliary agent with on-the-job training under the supervision and direction of a wildlife agent.

B.  During the one-year probationary period, a junior auxiliary agent shall have all the powers prescribed for an auxiliary agent in R.S. 56:69.10 except that he shall perform enforcement duties only when in the company of and under the direct supervision of the wildlife agent to whom he has been assigned.  

C.  Upon completion of the probationary period, the wildlife agent to whom the junior auxiliary agent has been assigned shall evaluate the auxiliary agent and recommend that the secretary renew or revoke the agent's commission.  Nothing herein shall prevent the wildlife agent who has been assigned to supervise the junior auxiliary agent from recommending revocation of a commission at any time during the probationary period.  

Acts 1990, No. 498, §2.