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The applicant, prior to registering as a fixed patrol business, or a street patrol business, or any firm, person, partnership or corporation hiring more than two private watchmen as defined in Section 1750.3 of this Article, must present evidence of insurance in the following amounts:
(1) Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability Insurance to cover the applicant's employees, as required by the Labor Code of the State of California.
(2) Comprehensive bodily injury and property damage liability insurance, including automobile liability and including liability for assault and battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel and slander, and invasion of privacy. This insurance shall provide limits of liability of not less than $200,000 for injury to each person and $300,000 for each occurrence and $50,000 for property damage. Any comprehensive bodily injury and property damage liability insurance policy or policies shall include the City and County of San Francisco, its officers and employees as an additional named insured, in the event any person shall charge or allege that the City and County of San Francisco, its officers or employees are liable or responsible for any act or conduct of the fixed or street patrol business whether by respondent superior or any other legal theory, and shall contain the following endorsement:
"Notwithstanding any other provision in this policy, the insurance afforded hereunder to the City of San Francisco shall be primary as to any other insurance or reinsurance covering or available to the City of San Francisco, and such other insurance or reinsurance shall not be required to contribute to any liability or loss until and unless the appropriate limit of liability afforded hereunder is exhausted."
Each of said policies of insurance shall contain a clause substantially in the following words:
"It is hereby understood and agreed that this policy may not be canceled, nor the amount of the coverage reduced, until ten days after receipt by the City Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco of a written notice of such cancellation or reduction of coverage, as evidenced by receipt of a registered letter."
All certificates of insurance must be approved as to form by the City Attorney of the City of San Francisco.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72)
Every person, firm, or corporation registering as a fixed patrol business or as a street patrol business shall pay to the Tax Collector a registration fee of $100 annually, payable in advance.
The registration fee prescribed in this Article is due and payable on a yearly basis, starting January 1, 1973. Fees for new registrations issued after the first day of January, 1973, or in any subsequent calendar year, shall be prorated with regard to the calendar year on a monthly basis.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72)
This Article does not apply to private investigators as defined in Section 7521(a) of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California, to insurance adjusters as defined in Section 7521(d) of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California, or to repossessors as defined in Section 7521(e) of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California.
(Added by Ord. 31-272, App. 11/2/72)
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Article or any part thereof, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid or ineffective by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining portions of this Article or any part thereof. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid or ineffective.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72)
The provisions of Section 1750 of this Article shall not be effective for 60 days from the effective date of this Article as it relates to registration of a fixed patrol business or street patrol business.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72)
It shall be unlawful for any armed guard, while in any place in the City and County of San Francisco, to draw or exhibit other than in a holster any firearm except in lawful response to an actual and specific threat to a person or persons.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72; amended by Ord. 218-23, File No. 230708, App. 11/3/2023, Eff. 12/4/2023)
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, partnership, or association which employs or utilizes armed guards to require, allow or permit any such guard, while in any place in the City and County of San Francisco, to draw or exhibit other than in a holster any firearm except in lawful response to an actual and specific threat to a person or persons. In any prosecution for violation of this Section 1750.20, proof that such person, corporation, partnership, or association did not, at the time a guard unlawfully drew or exhibited a firearm, have a written rule prohibiting such acts, shall be prima facie evidence that such person, corporation, partnership or association required, allowed or permitted such conduct.
(Added by Ord. 312-72, App. 11/2/72; amended by Ord. 218-23, File No. 230708, App. 11/3/2023, Eff. 12/4/2023)
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