Sections
42 entriesSection 7583Defines “licensee” for purposes of the article to mean a licensed private patrol operator. The term therefore refers specifically to a private…Section 7583.1Requires a private patrol operator applicant or manager to substantiate three years totaling at least 6,000 hours: two years/4,000 hours of qualifying…Section 7583.2Prohibits a private patrol operator from specified recordkeeping, registration-verification, weapons-proficiency, incident-reporting, manager-notice, and training failures. Missing recorded weapons must be reported to…Section 7583.3Prohibits a registered security guard from working without required registration identification, carrying a firearm without required permit identification, carrying or using a…Section 7583.4Requires a registered security guard or patrolperson and the employer to send the director a prescribed written firearm-discharge report within seven days,…Section 7583.5Requires armed licensees, security guards, and patrolpersons to complete required arrest/use-of-force and firearms training and possess a valid firearms qualification card. Armored…Section 7583.6Requires security-guard applicants to complete arrest-and-force training within six months before applying, and most registrants to complete 32 hours of security-officer skills…Section 7583.7Sets the security-guard arrest-and-appropriate-use-of-force course at about eight hours with specified arrest, liability, safety, de-escalation, bias, disability, scenario, and force topics; most…Section 7583.8Prohibits a private-patrol licensee from allowing an employee to perform security-guard functions unless the licensee first confirms that the employee holds a…Section 7583.9Requires security-guard applicants to submit applications, fees, and fingerprints, while allowing electronic fingerprinting. Exempts full-time and reserve peace officers from fingerprint cards…Section 7583.10Requires a verified security-guard registration application to provide identifying information, details of the arrest-and-force course and instructor, completion-certificate serial number, statements about…Section 7583.12Prohibits a licensee’s employee from carrying or using a firearm without valid guard-registration and firearm-qualification cards, but allows a bureau-approved employee awaiting…Section 7583.13Requires the bureau, when Department of Justice criminal or subsequent-arrest records permit, to immediately determine fitness of registration and firearms-card applicants and…Section 7583.14Requires the chief, when an applicant’s criminal history contains open arrest information, to send notice to the applicant’s last known residence allowing…Section 7583.16Allows the director to deny a registration application or suspend or revoke an issued registration when the individual committed conduct that would…Section 7583.17Requires the chief, upon registration approval, to issue the applicant a director-approved registration card at the applicant’s last known residence. Allows an…Section 7583.18Exempts a qualified manager who complies with the referenced qualified-manager provision from registration under this article. The exemption applies specifically to a…Section 7583.19Requires a licensee at all times to determine that employees who must be registered are currently registered under the article. Prohibits a…Section 7583.20Sets security-guard registration to expire at midnight on the last day of month two years after issuance and requires renewal filing and…Section 7583.21Requires automatic suspension of a security guard registration upon conviction of a crime substantially related to guard functions, duties, and responsibilities, with…Section 7583.22Requires licensees, qualified managers, and security guards who may carry firearms at work to complete firearms training and obtain a qualification card…Section 7583.23Requires firearms permits only for eligible licensees, qualified managers, or registered guards who are at least 21, submit fingerprints and fees, show…Section 7583.24Prohibits the bureau from issuing a firearm permit to a person barred by state or federal law from possessing, receiving, owning, or…Section 7583.25Prohibits the bureau from renewing a firearm permit for a person barred by state or federal law from possessing, receiving, purchasing, or…Section 7583.26Allows the Department of Justice to charge the bureau a fee for firearm-eligibility information submitted with an initial or renewal firearm-permit application,…Section 7583.27Allows revocation of a firearm permit when the Department of Justice notifies the bureau that the holder is legally prohibited from possessing,…Section 7583.28Sets an application as abandoned if the applicant does not complete it within one year after filing. Any application submitted after that…Section 7583.29Requires a firearm-permit denial to be written, explain its basis, and tell the applicant that disciplinary review must be requested from the…Section 7583.30Requires an issued firearms qualification card to be mailed to the applicant at the address shown on the application. Allows a cardholder…Section 7583.31Limits a firearms qualification card by providing that it does not authorize the holder to carry a pistol, revolver, or other concealable…Section 7583.32Sets a firearms qualification card to expire two years after issuance, with renewal due at least 60 days before expiration; expired cards…Section 7583.35Requires every licensee, qualified manager, or registered uniformed security guard who carries tear gas or another nonlethal chemical agent during employment to…Section 7583.36Prohibits a licensee from allowing an employee to carry tear gas or another nonlethal chemical agent until the licensee has determined the…Section 7583.37Prohibits licensees, qualified managers, and registered security guards during licensed work from carrying simulated firearms, unlawfully using firearms, carrying batons without certification,…Section 7583.38Allows a city, county, or city and county to regulate uniforms and insignia worn by uniformed private patrol operator employees and vehicles…Section 7583.39Requires an applicant or licensee to keep the article-required insurance policy on file as a condition of license issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal,…Section 7583.40Defines “insurance policy,” for purposes of the article, as a commercial general liability policy issued by an insurer authorized to transact business…Section 7583.41Requires a licensee to provide the bureau, on demand, proof that the licensee maintains the insurance policy required by the article. The…Section 7583.42Establishes a private patrol operator’s failure to maintain the insurance policy required by the article as grounds for suspension of the operator’s…Section 7583.45Requires contract security guards on K–12 school-district or community-college property to complete bureau-developed training and obtain required fingerprint and background clearances, plus…Section 7583.46Prohibits a private patrol operator from discharging, demoting, threatening, or otherwise discriminating against an employee for disclosing chapter-proscribed conduct to government or…Section 7583.47Defines the firearms-permit assessment as testing a registered guard applicant’s judgment, restraint, and self-control and requires completion at the applicant’s, designee’s, or…