Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.11]
( Heading of Division 3 added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 30. ) CHAPTER 11.6. Alarm Companies [7590 - 7599.80]
( Chapter 11.6 added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1210, Sec. 12. ) ARTICLE 6. Firearms Permits and Permits for Other Deadly and Nonlethal Weapons [7596 - 7596.13]
( Article 6 added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1210, Sec. 12. ) 7596.
(a) Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of their employment carries a firearm, shall complete a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms and shall receive a firearms qualification card prior to the carrying of such a firearm and shall complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. A registration card issued by the bureau pursuant to Section 7598.14 may also serve as a firearms qualification card if so indicated on the face of the card.
(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.
(Amended (as added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 697, Sec. 24) by Stats. 2022, Ch. 287, Sec. 45. (AB 2515) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative July 1, 2023, by its own provisions.)