As used in the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act:
1. "Client" means any person or legal entity having a contract with a person or entity licensed pursuant to the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act, which contract authorizes services to be performed in return for financial or other considerations;
2. "Council" means the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training;
3. "License" means authorization issued by the Council pursuant to the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act permitting the holder to perform the functions of a security guard, armed security guard, private investigator, investigative agency, or security agency;
4. "Private investigator" means a person who is self-employed, or contracts with, or is employed by an investigative agency for the purpose of conducting a private investigation and reporting the results to the employer or client of the employer relating to:
5. "Armed private investigator" means a private investigator authorized to carry a firearm;
6. "Security agency" means a person, firm, corporation, or other private legal entity in the business of security guard services or armed security guards for hire;
7. "Security guard" means an individual contracting with or employed by a security agency, private business or person to prevent trespass, theft, misappropriation, wrongful concealment of merchandise, goods, money or other tangible items, or engaged as a bodyguard or as a private watchman to protect persons or property, but shall not include:
8. "Armed security guard" means a security guard authorized to carry a firearm;
9. "Investigative agency" means a self-employed private investigator, a firm, a corporation, or other private legal entity in the business of soliciting the business of private investigation and/or providing private investigations and investigators;
10. "Special event" means a public activity in the form of an athletic contest, charity event, exposition or similar event that occurs only on an annual or noncontinuing basis; and
11. "Special event license" means a temporary license issued pursuant to the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act which restricts the license holder to employment as a security guard only for the duration of a particular event.
Added by Laws 1986, c. 224, § 2, operative July 1, 1987. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 193, § 1, eff. July 1, 1987; Laws 1988, c. 200, § 1, eff. July 1, 1988; Laws 1989, c. 225, § 1, emerg. eff. May 9, 1989; Laws 1998, c. 35, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 68, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2005, c. 155, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2007, c. 360, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2021, c. 22, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.