Section 28012 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) A PPO may be the registered owner of a firearm if the
PPO is registered with the department pursuant to procedures
established by the department.
(b) The department shall modify the department's Dealers' Record
of Sale (DROS) form to allow a PPO to be listed as the purchaser and
registered owner of a firearm. The form shall also require the PPO to
identify its type of business formation and to include any tax
identification number or other identifying number of the PPO that may
be required by the department.
(c) (1) The department shall modify the department's DROS form to
require the PPO to designate a "firearms custodian" for the firearm
owned by the PPO that is listed in the DROS. A firearms custodian
shall possess a valid firearms qualification permit issued by the
bureau. A firearms custodian is responsible for the tracking,
safekeeping, and inventory of those firearms of the PPO for which the
custodian is designated, and shall serve as a point of contact for
the department regarding the firearms for which the custodian is
designated.
(2) If a firearms custodian is no longer employed by the PPO in
that capacity, or otherwise becomes ineligible to be the firearms
custodian, the PPO shall notify the department of that fact within
seven days in a manner prescribed by the department, and the PPO
shall notify the department of the designated replacement firearms
custodian within 20 days of the original notice.
(d) A security guard shall possess a valid firearm qualification
permit issued by the bureau prior to receiving a firearm from a PPO
pursuant to a Certificate of Assignment (COA). A firearm shall be
assigned by a PPO to a security guard who is employed to work for the
PPO only when that employment requires the security guard to be
armed.
(e) (1) (A) The department shall prescribe a "Certificate of
Assignment" or "COA." The COA may include fields that are in the DROS
form, and shall be used to identify the employee of the PPO who has
been assigned a PPO-owned firearm by the PPO pursuant to this
chapter.
(B) The COA shall also be used to identify an employee of the PPO
who will use his or her own firearm in the course of his or her
duties as a security guard. The COA shall not require specific
information regarding an employee-owned firearm.
(2) A PPO shall register a PPO-owned firearm acquired prior to
July 1, 2016, as a PPO-owned firearm in a manner prescribed by the
department prior to filing a COA for that firearm.
(3) Upon the PPO assigning a firearm to an employee who is a
security guard, the PPO shall complete the COA and file it with the
department in a timely manner as prescribed by the department.
(f) The department shall cause the information contained on the
COA to be entered into the Automated Firearms System in a timely
manner. Upon termination of the employment assignment that requires
the security guard to be armed and the transfer of the firearm from
the security guard back to the PPO, the PPO shall complete a COA
indicating that the firearm is no longer assigned to the employee and
that the firearm is in the possession of the PPO and shall file the
COA with the department in a timely manner, as prescribed.
(g) If a security guard becomes listed on the Prohibited Armed
Persons File, the department shall immediately notify the bureau of
the listing by secured electronic delivery. Upon that notification,
the bureau shall take appropriate action regarding the security
guard. In addition, the department shall notify the PPO, in the
manner the department deems appropriate, that the PPO employee is
prohibited from being armed. This chapter does not prohibit the
department from also notifying the bureau if a security guard has
been arrested and charged with an offense that, upon conviction,
would constitute a basis for revocation of a firearms qualification
permit or security guard registration.