Section 7209.

A person to be eligible for examination as an instructor must (1) have a knowledge of the special problems of the blind and how to teach them, (2) be able to demonstrate by actual blindfold test under traffic conditions his ability to train guide dogs with whom a blind person would be safe, (3) be suited temperamentally and otherwise to instruct blind persons in the use of guide dogs, and (4) have had at least three years' actual experience, comprising such number of hours as the board may require, as an instructor, and have handled twenty-two (22) man-dog units; or its equivalent, as determined by the board, as an apprentice under a licensed instructor or under an instructor in a school satisfactory to the board.

(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 107.)