---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2553.62"
title: "45"
number: "2553.62"
heading: "What are the responsibilities of a volunteer station?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2553.62"
---

# §2553.62. What are the responsibilities of a volunteer station?


A volunteer station shall undertake the following responsibilities in support of RSVP volunteers:

- (a) Develop volunteer assignments that impact critical human and social needs, and regularly assess those assignments for continued appropriateness;
- (b) Assign staff member responsible for day to day oversight of RSVP volunteers within the volunteer station and for assessing the impact of volunteers in addressing community needs;
- (c) Keep a Letter of Agreement for each client who receives in-home service;
- (d) Keep records and prepare reports as required;
- (e) Comply with all applicable civil rights requirements including providing RSVP volunteers with disabilities reasonable accommodation to perform the essential functions of their service;
- (f) **Provide assigned RSVP volunteers the following support—**
  - (1) Orientation to station and appropriate in-service training to enhance performance of assignments;
  - (2) Resources required for performance of assignments including reasonable accommodation to RSVP volunteers with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their service; and
  - (3) **Supervision.**
- (g) Undertake such other responsibilities as may be necessary to the successful performance of RSVP volunteers in their assignments or as agreed to in the Memorandum of Understanding.

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 14135, Mar. 24, 1999, as amended at 83 FR 64656, Dec. 17, 2018]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4950 et seq.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 14135, Mar. 24, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 14135, Mar. 24, 1999, as amended at 83 FR 64656, Dec. 17, 2018]