The council is vested with the following functions, powers, and responsibilities:
(1) To make all the necessary rules and regulations to carry out this article;
(2) To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency, or instrumentality of the state government or its political subdivisions in furtherance of the purposes of this article;
(3) To approve schools and to prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools;
(4) To issue a certification to any municipal court judge satisfactorily complying with an approved training program established;
(5) To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; and
(6) To prescribe, by rules and regulations, the minimum requirements for curricula and standards composing the initial in-service, advanced, specialized, and continuing training courses for certification.