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92_HB2219

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning the regulation of professions.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
 5    Security,  and  Locksmith  Act of 1993 is amended by changing
 6    Section 5 as follows:

 7        (225 ILCS 446/5)
 8        Sec. 5.  Definitions.  In this Act:
 9        "Armed employee" means a licensee  or  a  person  who  is
10    currently  employed by an agency certified under this Act who
11    is armed while engaged in the performance of official  duties
12    within  the  course  and  scope  of  his or her employment or
13    exclusively employed by an employer during the hours or times
14    he or she is scheduled to  work  for  that  employer,  or  is
15    commuting  between  his  or her home and place of employment,
16    provided the commuting is accomplished within one  hour  from
17    departure  from home or place of employment, and there exists
18    an employer/employee relationship, whose  full  or  part-time
19    duties  include  the  wearing,  carrying  or  possessing of a
20    firearm in the performance of those duties.
21        "Board" means the  Illinois  Private  Detective,  Private
22    Alarm, Private Security, and Locksmith Board.
23        "Department"    means    the   Illinois   Department   of
24    Professional Regulation.
25        "Director"  means  the  Director  of  the  Department  of
26    Professional Regulation.
27        "Person" means a natural person.
28        "Private alarm contractor" means any person  who  engages
29    in  a  business  that  sells,  installs, monitors, maintains,
30    alters, repairs, replaces, services,  or  responds  to  alarm
31    systems,  including fire alarm systems, at protected premises
 
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 1    or at premises to be protected on an emergency basis and  not
 2    as  a full-time security guard; but the term does not include
 3    a person, firm, or corporation  that  manufactures  or  sells
 4    alarm  systems  only  from its place of business and does not
 5    sell, install, monitor,  maintain,  alter,  repair,  replace,
 6    service, or respond to alarm systems at protected premises or
 7    premises  to be protected or a licensed electrical contractor
 8    who repairs or services fire alarm systems on  an  "emergency
 9    call-in  basis",  or  who sells, installs, maintains, alters,
10    and repairs, or  services  fire  alarm  systems.    A  person
11    "engages"  in a business when he does the business himself or
12    by or through others, undertakes to do it, offers to  do  it,
13    represents  himself  as  having  the  capacity to do it or to
14    undertake to do it, or submits a bid to do it.
15        "Private alarm contractor agency" means any person, firm,
16    association, or corporation that engages in the private alarm
17    contractor business  and  employs  one  or  more  persons  in
18    conducting the business.
19        "Private  detective"  means  any person who by any means,
20    including but not limited to manual  or  electronic  methods,
21    engages in the business of, accepts employment to furnish, or
22    agrees  to  make  or  makes  investigations for fees or other
23    valuable consideration to obtain information  with  reference
24    to:
25             (1)  Crime  or wrongs done or threatened against the
26        United States or any state or  territory  of  the  United
27        States.
28             (2)  The   identity,   habits,   conduct,   business
29        occupation,  honesty,  integrity, credibility, knowledge,
30        trustworthiness,    efficiency,    loyalty,     activity,
31        movements,   whereabouts,   affiliations,   associations,
32        transactions,  acts,  reputation,  or  character  of  any
33        person,  firm, association, or corporation, by any means,
34        manually or electronically.
 
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 1             (3)  The location, disposition, or recovery of  lost
 2        or stolen property.
 3             (4)  The cause, origin, or responsibility for fires,
 4        accidents, or injuries to real or personal property.
 5             (5)  The  truth  or  falsity  of  any  statement  or
 6        representation.
 7             (6)  Securing  evidence to be used before any court,
 8        board, officer, or investigating committee.
 9             (7)  Personal protection of individuals from  bodily
10        harm or death (bodyguard functions).
11             (8)  Service   of  process  in  criminal  and  civil
12        proceedings without court order.
13        "Private  detective  agency"  means  any  person,   firm,
14    association,  or  corporation  that  engages  in  the private
15    detective  business  and  employs  one  or  more  persons  in
16    conducting the business.
17        "Private  security  contractor"  means  any  person   who
18    engages  in  the  business  of  providing  a  private  guard,
19    watchman,  patrol  service,  or any like service by any other
20    title or name on a  contractual  basis  for  another  person,
21    firm, association, or corporation for a fee or other valuable
22    consideration  and  performing  one  or more of the following
23    functions:
24             (1)  The  prevention  or  detection  of   intrusion,
25        entry,  theft,  vandalism,  abuse,  fire,  or trespass on
26        private or governmental property.
27             (2)  The prevention, observation,  or  detection  of
28        any  unauthorized  activity  on  private  or governmental
29        property.
30             (3)  The protection of patrons and persons  lawfully
31        authorized  to  be  on  the premises of the person, firm,
32        association,  or  corporation  for   whom   he   or   she
33        contractually is obligated to provide security services.
34             (4)  The   prevention  of  the  misappropriation  or
 
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 1        concealment  of  goods,  money,  bonds,  stocks,   notes,
 2        valuable documents, or papers.
 3             (5)  The  control,  regulation,  or direction of the
 4        flow or movement of the public,  whether  by  vehicle  or
 5        otherwise,  only  to the extent and for the time directly
 6        and specifically required to  assure  the  protection  of
 7        property on property owned or controlled by the client.
 8             (6)  The  protection of individuals from bodily harm
 9        or death (bodyguard functions).
10        "Private security contractor agency"  means  any  person,
11    firm, association, or corporation that engages in the private
12    security  contractor  business  and  that employs one or more
13    persons in conducting the business.
14        "Locksmith" means a person who  has  received  a  license
15    under   this   Act   and  who  engages  in  the  practice  of
16    locksmithing as defined in this Act.
17        "Locksmith agency" means any person,  firm,  association,
18    or  corporation  that  engages  in the locksmith business and
19    that employs one or more persons in conducting the business.
20        "The practice  of  locksmithing"  includes,  but  is  not
21    limited  to,  the  servicing,  installing,  originating first
22    keys, re-coding, manipulation, or bypassing of mechanical  or
23    electronic  locking  devices  at  premises,  vehicles, safes,
24    vaults, safe deposit boxes, or automatic teller machines.
25        "Public member" means a person who is not a licensee or a
26    relative of a licensee, or who  is  not  an  employer  or  an
27    employee  of  a  licensee.    The  term  "relative"  shall be
28    determined by rules of the Department.
29        "In charge" means the individual licensee whose name  and
30    license  number appear on a certificate of registration for a
31    detective,  private  security   contractor,   private   alarm
32    contractor,  or  locksmith  agency  is  a full-time executive
33    employee or owner who assumes  full  responsibility  for  all
34    employees  of  the agency and for their directed actions, and
 
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 1    assumes  full  responsibility  for  maintaining  all  records
 2    required by this  Act  or  rule  of  the  Department  and  is
 3    responsible  for otherwise assuring compliance with this Act.
 4    The full-time "in charge" executive employee  shall  work  at
 5    least  30  hours  per  week  for  the agency in the period of
 6    agency licensure unless  the  "in  charge"  employee  is  the
 7    controlling  interest owner.   Records shall be maintained at
 8    a location in Illinois and the address of the location  filed
 9    with    the   Department   and   accessible   to   Department
10    representatives in accordance with Section 115 of  this  Act.
11    This  does  not  relieve  any  person,  firm, association, or
12    corporation licensed as an agency under this  Act  from  also
13    assuming  full  responsibility  for compliance with this Act.
14    It is the responsibility of the licensee in charge to  notify
15    the  Department, in writing within 10 days, when the licensee
16    terminates his or her in charge relationship with an agency.
17        "Permanent  employee  registration  card"  means  a  card
18    issued by the Department to an individual who has applied  to
19    the  Department  and  has  been  found to be employable by an
20    agency certified under this Act.
21        "Firearm authorization card" means a card issued  by  the
22    Department  that  authorizes  the  holder  to  carry a weapon
23    during the performance of his  or  her  duties  as  specified
24    under Section 180 of this Act.
25        "Burglar  Alarm  system"  means  any system, including an
26    electronic access system, surveillance television system,  or
27    other  electronic security system, that activates an audible,
28    visible, or remote signal that requires  a  response  and  is
29    designed for the prevention or detection of intrusion, entry,
30    theft, vandalism, or trespass.
31        "Fire alarm system" means any system that is activated by
32    any  automatic  or  manual  device in the detection of smoke,
33    heat, or fire that activates an audible, visible,  or  remote
34    signal that requires response.
 
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 1        "Branch  office" means any business location removed from
 2    the place of business for which an agency  license  has  been
 3    issued.
 4        "Armed  proprietary  security  force"  means any security
 5    force made up of 5 or more armed individuals  employed  in  a
 6    commercial   or  industrial  operation;  one  or  more  armed
 7    individuals employed in a  financial  operation  as  security
 8    guards  for  the  protection of persons; or one or more armed
 9    individuals employed for the protection of  private  property
10    related to a commercial, industrial, or financial operation.
11        "Association" means 2 or more persons joined together for
12    a business purpose.
13        "Firm"   means  any  unincorporated  business  entity  or
14    enterprise, including but not limited to proprietorships  and
15    partnerships.
16        "Corporation" means any artificial person or legal entity
17    created by or under the authority of the laws of a state.
18    (Source: P.A. 91-815, eff. 6-13-00.)

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