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ORDINANCE NO. 5534
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 12 OF TITLE IX
OF THE 1971 CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
PUEBLO RELATING TO MERCHANT PATROL
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PUEBLO, that: (Brackets
indicate material being deleted; underscoring indicates new
material being added)
SECTION 1 .
Chapter 12 of Title IX of the 1971 Code of Ordinances of the
City of Pueblo is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Subsection (b) of Section 1 and Section 1 of Chapter 12
is amended by the addition of the following sentence to subsection
(b) and the addition of the following new subsections (d) and (e )
to Section 1:
(b) . . . A security guard may be licensed as either
an armed security guard or an unarmed security guard.
(d) Approved Security Guard Program means a training
program including curriculum for security guards approved by
the City Manager or his authorized representative .
(e) Approved Firearms Course means a firearms training
program including curriculum approved by the Chief of Police.
(b) Section 2 of Chapter 12 is amended to read as follows :
9-12-2: [LICENSE REQUIRED] UNLAWFUL ACTS
[It shall be unlawful and a Class 1 Municipal Offense
for any person to engage in business within the City as a
Merchant Patrol or Security Guard Service or to serve or be
employed as a security guard without first having obtained a
license to do so]
(a) It shall be unlawful and a Class 1 municipal
offense for any person, partnership or corporation to engage
in the merchant patrol or security guard service business
without first being licensed under this Chapter.
(b) It shall be unlawful and a Class 1 municipal
offense for a merchant patrol or security guard service to
employ as a security guard any person who is not licensed as
a security guard under this Chapter.
(c) It shall be unlawful and a Class 2 municipal
offense for any person who is not licensed as a security
guard under this Chapter to perform services as a security
guard.
(d) It shall be unlawful and a Class 2 municipal
offense for any person to perform services as a security
guard for a merchant patrol or security service which is not
licensed under this Chapter.
(c ) The first sentence of subsection (b) and subsection (b)
of Section 3 of Chapter 12 is amended to read as follows and by
the addition of the following new paragraph (6 ) :
(b) for an armed security guard license:
( 6 ) documentation that the applicant has successfully
completed an Approved Security Guard Program and an Approved
Firearms Course.
(d) Section 3 of Chapter 12 is amended by the addition of
the following new subsection ( c ) :
(c) for an unarmed security guard license: all of the
information required for an armed security guard license
except documentation that the Applicant has completed an
Approved Firearms Course.
(e ) Subsection (b) of Section 4 of Chapter 12 is amended by
the addition of the following new paragraph ( 7 ) :
( 7 ) an applicant for a security guard license has
failed to provide acceptable documentation that the applicant
has successfully completed an Approved Security Guard Program
and, if required, an Approved Firearms Course.
( f) Subsection (a) of Section 7 of Chapter 12 is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Security guards shall not carry firearms while in
the course of their employment for any merchant patrol or
security guard service unless the merchant patrol or security
guard service certifies in writing to the Chief of Police
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that such security guard [is proficient in the use, care and
maintenance of same , and that he has a good knowledge of
firearm safety] has successfully completed an Approved Fire-
arms Course. Nothing herein shall be construed to permit a
security guard to carry an illegal weapon nor to carry any
concealed weapon.
(g) Subsection (a) of Section 10 of Chapter 12 is amended by
the addition of the following new paragraph ( 3 ) :
(3 ) That the licensee or any employee of the licensee
has violated any provision of this Chapter.
(h) Subsection (b) of Section 10 of Chapter 12 is amended by
the addition of the following new paragraph (3 ) :
( 3 ) Violation of any provision of this Chapter.
( i ) Section 12 of Chapter 12 is amended to read:
(a) The Chief of Police shall regulate the style of all
badges, uniforms and equipment used by persons engaged in the
merchant patrol or security guard service business to the end
that the same shall be sufficiently distinctive to avoid
confusion in the mind of the public with badges , uniforms and
equipment of local law enforcement agencies . For purposes of
this section, "equipment" shall include paint, insignias and
markings on motor vehicles .
(b) A person licensed as an armed security guard shall
wear a red identification badge furnished by the licensed
person's employer.
(c) A person licensed as an unarmed security guard
shall wear a green identification badge furnished by the
licensed person 's employer.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon final
passage and shall be applicable to all new applications for
licenses under Chapter 12 of Title IX of the 1971 Code of
Ordinances filed on or after its effective date , and shall on
January 1, 1990 become applicable to all licenses and licensees
who were licensed under said Chapter 12 on the effective date of
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this Ordinance.
INTRODUCED: March 27, 1989
By MIKE SALARDINO
Councilman
ATTEST: APPROVED:
441/0--` A 4, (",'-efi v.z
ity Clerk Pres dent of the City Council
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