Chapter 5.50 — GUARDS AND PATROLMEN

"Guard" means a person who guards property and who is not a member of a private patrol system or a patrol system and who is employed exclusively and regularly by one employer in connection with the affairs of such employer only, and where there exists an employer-employee relationship.

(Prior code § 6305(j)(part))

In lieu of the application fee required by Section 5.08.320, each applicant for a guard shall pay a five-dollar application fee in advance.

(Prior code § 6305(j)(part), (2))

All such applications shall be forwarded to the law enforcement agency for a report and recommendation.

(Prior code § 6305(j)(part), (3))

Notwithstanding any other provision of this title to the contrary, guard permits shall be renewed annually on or before the anniversary date of the issuance of the permit. The permit may be renewed by the director of finance, provided he or she has received a favorable report therefor from the law enforcement agency. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title to the contrary, the application fee for permits and for annual renewal thereof pertaining to a guard shall be five dollars each.

(Prior code § 6305(j)(part), (1))

No business license shall be required of a guard where employed by an employer who is licensed under Chapter 5.12 of this title.

(Prior code § 6305(j)(part), (4))

• A. Personnel. The operator of a patrol system shall neither employ nor utilize the services in any way of a patrolman whose name is not on the license of such operator, or who does not possess a valid subsisting license.

• B. License Not To Be Sold. The holder of a patrol system license shall not sell or offer to sell any transfer or relinquishment of the privilege to operate a patrol system in territory assigned to him, or for any consideration whatever agree to advocate or not to oppose the granting of any other patrol system license.

• C. Change in Personnel. The holder of a license to conduct a patrol system shall so inform the director of finance within five days after any patrolman no longer is an owner, member or employee of such licensee, and shall return the license and badge of such patrolman to the law enforcement agency. The director of finance shall remove such patrolman's name from the license of such patrol system.

(Prior code § 6410)

While engaged in his or her duties as such, a patrolman shall keep upon his or her person, at all times, his or her license, and shall wear the badge issued by the law enforcement agency, and shall wear no other badge of any kind, character or description except a badge issued to him or her by lawful governmental authority.

(Prior code § 6411(g))

• A. Patrolmen shall wear such badge as shall be designated or issued by the law enforcement agency, and shall pay, in addition to all other fees under this title, such fees under such arrangements as shall be designated by the law enforcement agency. A patrolman shall wear no badge other than that issued or approved by the law enforcement agency.

• B. A patrolman shall turn in his or her badge and license to his or her employer when his or her license has been revoked. A patrolman shall turn in his or her badge to his or her employer when he or she ceases to be employed as a patrolman.

• (Prior code § 6411(a))

A person shall not give, deliver to or sell any patrolman's badge, or any badge of a design the same as, or so similar to the patrolman's badge as to be mistaken therefor, to any private person. (Prior code § 6411(i))

The law enforcement agency shall specify the police equipment, including weapons, which a licensee may wear while on duty. A licensee shall not wear any equipment or weapon or carry any weapon not so specified. (Prior code § 6411(e))

Licensees shall not perform official police or investigation activities, but shall immediately report every violation of law and every unusual occurrence to the nearest law enforcement agency or police substation. A licensee shall make a full report of such violation or other occurrence, without unnecessary delay, to such substation. (Prior code § 6411(k))

Upon written application by a licensed patrolman accompanied by the written application of the patrol system which proposes to employ such patrolman, and upon satisfying the director of finance by competent evidence that such patrolman is, or will be, no longer employed by the patrol system formerly employing such patrolman, the director of finance may modify the patrolman's license or permit so as to designate the new employer, and may modify the license or permit of the patrol system by removing such patrolman's name from the one permit and adding it to the other.

(Prior code § 6411(b))

Unless a patrolman applies to have his or her license modified as provided in Section 5.50.120, the director of finance shall revoke the license or permit of any patrolman when he or she is no longer employed by the patrol system named in his or her permit or license. (Prior code § 6411(c))

A patrolman shall not assume or use a rank or title the same as or similar to any rank or title used by the law enforcement agency, or by any police department within Los Angeles County. (Prior code § 6411(h))

A patrolman shall not wear any uniform which is in imitation of or can be mistaken for an official law enforcement agency uniform, or an official police uniform of the police force of any city within Los Angeles County, or an official uniform of any state officer. (Prior code § 6411(f))

A person shall not purchase or receive as a gift, pawn, or pledge any patrolman's badge. (Prior code § 6411(j))

A patrolman shall not, either by himself or through the actions of another, harass, annoy or commit a nuisance against, or injure the property of, or unnecessarily enter or otherwise trespass upon the property of any person whose property the patrol system of such patrolman is not employed to protect.

(Prior code § 6411(d))