California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 11.6 — Alarm Companies, Article 6 — Firearms Permits and Permits for Other Deadly and Nonlethal Weapons, Section 7596

(a) Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of their employment carries a firearm, shall complete a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms and shall receive a firearms qualification card prior to the carrying of such a firearm and shall complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. A registration card issued by the bureau pursuant to Section 7598.14 may also serve as a firearms qualification card if so indicated on the face of the card.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.

Notes

Requires every licensed, registered, or designated person who carries a firearm during employment to complete firearms and arrest/use-of-force training and obtain a firearms qualification card before carrying. A bureau registration card may also serve as the qualification card if so marked, and the provision became operative July 1, 2023.

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