Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) "Applicant"
means a private security entity, through an entity representative, applying for
or renewing licensure to operate as a private security entity.
(2) "Board" means the Board on Public Safety
Standards and Training.
(3)
"Department" or "DPSST" means the Department of Public Safety Standards and
Training.
(4) "Entity
representative" means the individual who represents the private security entity
in matters of licensure as a private security entity.
(5) "Engaged in the business of providing
private security" means recruiting, soliciting, supplying, or employing private
security professionals, supervisory managers, or executive managers for an
agreed remuneration or rate of pay to perform private security
services.
(6) "Executive manager"
has the meaning given that term in ORS
181A.840 and OAR
259-060-0010.
(7) "Financially
interested" means any ownership interest in the private security entity that is
greater than or equal to 5% of the entity.
(8) "License" means a private security entity
license issued by the Department.
(9) "Licensee" means a licensed private
security entity.
(10) "Person"
means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, business, company,
corporation, association, governmental entity, or other business or legal
entity.
(11)
(a) "Private security entity" means a person
engaged in the business of providing private security that:
(A) Employs private security providers;
or
(B) Contracts or subcontracts
with an existing licensed private security entity to provide private security
services.
(b) "Private
security entity" does not include a special campus security provider
commissioned under ORS
352.118 or a private security
provider on a campus of an institution of higher education regulated under ORS
181A.972.
(12) "Private security provider" means any
individual who performs the functions of a private security professional,
executive manager, supervisory manager or instructor, as those terms are
defined in ORS 181A.840 and OAR
259-060-0010.
(13) "Private
security services" means the performance of at least one of the following
activities:
(a) Observing and reporting
unlawful activity.
(b) Preventing
or detecting theft or misappropriation of goods, money or other items of
value.
(c) Protecting individuals
or property, including but not limited to proprietary information, from harm or
misappropriation.
(d) Controlling
access to premises being protected or, with respect to a licensee of the Oregon
Liquor and Cannabis Commission, controlling access to premises at an entry to
the premises or any portion of the premises where minors are
prohibited.
(e) Securely moving
prisoners.
(f) Taking enforcement
action by detaining persons or placing persons under arrest under ORS
133.225.
(g) Providing canine services for guarding
premises or for detecting unlawful devices or substances.
(14) "Qualified designee" means an individual
who is:
(a) Employed by a private security
entity that is a non-profit or governmental entity, a private security entity
principally located in another state, or a private security entity with more
than 100 employees; and
(b)
Authorized by the principal owner or principal partner of the private security
entity to represent the entity in matters of entity licensure.
(15) "Temporary Authorization
Form" means a written, temporary permit to operate as a private security entity
that is issued by the Department to an applicant while their application for a
license is being processed.
(16)
(a) "Work location or locations" means the
specific place or places where a private security provider regularly reports to
work or is assigned to work. "Work location or locations" include the location
of the private security entity and locations such as a site, complex, park,
campus, or territory where the private security entity provides private
security services. Examples: an industrial complex, a hospital campus, or a
territory with fixed parameters like the five-block radius surrounding a
shopping district.
(b) "Work
location or locations" does not include:
(A)
Incidental response locations outside of regularly performed duties;
(B) Routes between work locations that are
not included under the security services provided by the private security
entity;
(C) Confidential public
utility infrastructure locations;
(D) A private security entity's armored car
routes and stop locations; or
(E)
Personal residential addresses and auxiliary locations where private security
services are performed in the course and scope of personal protection
services.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
181A.870 & ORS
181A.900
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
181A.840, ORS
181A.870 & ORS
181A.900
