Section 28010 Of Chapter 4.1. Registration And Assignment Of Firearms By Private Patrol Operators From California Penal Code >> Division 6. >> Title 4. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 4.1.
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. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that current
practices and statutes authorize the purchase, registration, and
ownership of firearms by an individual, but not by a business entity.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter
to allow business ownership and registration of firearms in the case
of licensed Private Patrol Operators (PPOs) who are actively
providing armed private contract security services. It is further the
intent of the Legislature to establish procedures whereby a PPO may
assign firearms it owns to its employees who are licensed to carry
firearms and that assignment of a firearm by a PPO to that employee
would not constitute a loan, sale, or transfer of a firearm.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature to require notification of
the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services any time a
security guard is listed on the Prohibited Armed Persons File so that
the bureau may proceed with appropriate action regarding the
licensing of the employee.
(d) For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Security and Investigative
Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(2) "Department" means the Department of Justice.
(3) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
(4) "Private patrol operator" or "PPO" means a private patrol
operator licensed pursuant to Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section
7580) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code whose
license is not suspended, revoked, expired, inactive, delinquent, or
canceled.
(5) "Security guard" means a security guard registered pursuant to
Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 7580) of Division 3 of the
Business and Professions Code whose registration is not suspended,
revoked, expired, inactive, delinquent, or canceled.