The Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team (PASART) hereby establishes the following policy as it relates to the enrollment of volunteers in PASART and County Animal Response Teams (CARTS).

As a non-profit volunteer based organization, the Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team (PASART) is dependent upon volunteers from the general public to provide the human resources that will make up the County based response teams providing assistance to county emergency management officials. Accordingly, it is appropriate to establish a policy that governs the enrollment of volunteers.

Specifically, it shall be the policy of PASART that individuals may volunteer to be members of PASART and CARTS if they are at least eighteen (18) years of age OR they are at least sixteen (16) years of age and have submitted a formal written consent from a parent or legal guardian.

Any volunteers under the age of eighteen (18) must be in compliance with any state and federal regulations regarding the use of minors as volunteers.