HOUSE BILL No. 4588

May 13, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Heise, Santana, Faris, Kelly, Vaupel and Maturen and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1968 PA 330, entitled

 

"Private security business and security alarm act,"

 

by amending sections 37 and 39 (MCL 338.1087 and 338.1089), as

 

added by 2010 PA 68, and by adding section 37a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 37. (1) This section and sections 38 to 42 apply only to

 

private college security forces.

 

     (2) Consistent with this act, a private college or university

 

in this state that has students residing in college or university

 

housing may, through action of its governing board, may authorize a

 

private college security force. The action of the governing board

 

shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Authorize a private college security force.

 

     (b) Authorize appointment of persons to be members of that

 


private college security force.

 

     (c) Authorize the assignment of duties, including the

 

enforcement of college or university regulations, and state and

 

local law under section 37a.

 

     (d) Prescribe the oath of office.

 

     (e) Limit employment to those individuals who meet the

 

requirements of subsections (4), (5), (6), and (7). and section 40.

 

     (3) A person appointed under subsection (2) shall be known and

 

designated as a private college security officer and is fully

 

empowered under this may act as a private college security officer

 

upon being appointed by a private college or university licensed

 

under this act.

 

     (4) Except as provided in subsection (7), private college

 

security officers must meet the selection qualifications prescribed

 

in R 28.14203, R 28.14204, and R 28.14209 of the Michigan

 

administrative code, and must meet the standards and requirements

 

applicable to at least 1 category of recruits as set forth in R

 

28.14313 (military preservice recruits), R 28.14314 (basic

 

recruits), R 28.14315 (preservice recruits and preservice college

 

recruits), R 28.14316 (preservice college recruits), and R 28.14317

 

(agency basic recruits) of the Michigan administrative code, as

 

promulgated by the commission.

 

     (5) Private college security forces are subject to the

 

provisions of R 28.14318, R 28.14319, and R 28.14320 of the

 

Michigan administrative code, as promulgated by the commission.

 

     (6) Except as provided in subsection (7), private college

 

security officers may participate in the recognition of prior basic


law enforcement training and experience program as prescribed in R

 

28.14401, R 28.14402, R 28.14403, R 28.14404, R 28.14405, R

 

28.14406, R 28.14407, R 28.14408, R 28.14409, R 28.14410, R

 

28.14413, and R 28.14414 of the Michigan administrative code, as

 

promulgated by the commission.

 

     (7) Subsections (4), (5), and (6) do not apply to an

 

individual who meets all of the following requirements:

 

     (a) He or she is employed as a security officer by a private

 

college or university on the effective date of this act.July 12,

 

1968.

 

     (b) He or she is certified as a law enforcement officer by the

 

commission on the effective date of this act July 12, 1968 or was

 

previously certified as a law enforcement officer by the commission

 

while employed by the private college or university as a law

 

enforcement officer but that certification became void during that

 

period of employment.

 

     (c) The private college or university authorizes the creation

 

of a private college security force under this act.

 

     (8) Investigations conducted to determine if a candidate for

 

appointment as a private college security officer meets the

 

selection qualifications, standards, and requirements in subsection

 

(4) are governed by R 28.14601, R 28.14602, R 28.14603, R 28.14604,

 

R 28.14606, R 28.14608, and R 28.14609 of the Michigan

 

administrative code, as promulgated by the commission. This section

 

shall not be interpreted to does not require the commission to

 

conduct the investigation or review of an applicant for employment

 

as a private college security officer.


     (9) The governing board of a private college or university

 

that creates a private college security force under this section

 

may be subject to a fee payable to the commission under section

 

10(2) of the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA

 

203, MCL 28.610.

 

     Sec. 37a. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a private

 

college security officer appointed under section 37 may exercise

 

the authority and powers of a peace officer outside the

 

geographical boundaries of the officer's private college or

 

university only under any of the following circumstances:

 

     (a) If the officer is enforcing the laws of this state in

 

conjunction with the department of state police.

 

     (b) If the officer is enforcing the laws of this state in

 

conjunction with a peace officer of any other county, city,

 

village, township, or university in which the officer may be

 

present.

 

     (c) If the officer has witnessed an individual violate any of

 

the following within the geographical boundaries of the officer's

 

private college or university and immediately pursues the

 

individual outside the geographical boundaries of the officer's

 

private college or university:

 

     (i) A state law or administrative rule.

 

     (ii) a local ordinance.

 

     (iii) A state law, administrative rule, or local ordinance,

 

the violation of which is a civil infraction, municipal civil

 

infraction, or state civil infraction.

 

     (2) The officer pursuing an individual under subsection (1)(c)


may stop and detain the person outside the geographical boundaries

 

of the officer's private college or university for the purpose of

 

enforcing that law, administrative rule, or ordinance before,

 

during, or immediately after detaining the individual. If the

 

violation or pursuit involves a vessel moving on the waters of this

 

state, the officer pursuing the individual may direct the operator

 

of the vessel to bring the vessel to a stop or maneuver it in a

 

manner that permits the officer to come beside the vessel.

 

     (3) A private college security officer may exercise the

 

authority and powers of a peace officer outside the geographical

 

boundaries of the officer's private college or university in

 

circumstances other than those described in subsections (1) and (2)

 

if all of the following conditions are met:

 

     (a) The officer meets the minimum standards to be certified as

 

a law enforcement officer under section 9 of the commission on law

 

enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.609, and R 28.14101

 

to R 28.14702 of the Michigan administrative code.

 

     (b) The officer is deputized by the sheriff or sheriffs of the

 

county or counties in which the land of the private college or

 

university is located and in which the officer will work, under

 

section 70 of 1846 RS 14, MCL 51.70.

 

     (c) The deputation is made pursuant to a written agreement

 

that includes any terms that the deputizing authority may require

 

of the governing board of the private college or university.

 

     (d) The written agreement is filed with the commission.

 

     (e) If the property of the private college or university is

 

located entirely within 1 city, the deputation must be approved by


the chief of police of that city. If the property of the private

 

college or university is not located entirely within 1 city, the

 

deputation must be approved by the chief of police of each city

 

within which the private college or university owns, maintains, or

 

controls property.

 

     Sec. 39. Upon being appointed under section 37 by a private

 

college or university licensed under this act, private college

 

security officers have the power to make arrests as provided in

 

section 30. That Except as provided in section 37a, that power may

 

shall be exercised only on property owned or leased by the private

 

college or university wherever situated. Private Except for those

 

officers meeting the standards under section 9 of the commission on

 

law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.609, and

 

deputized as provided in section 37a, private college security

 

officers are not certified as law enforcement officers under the

 

commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL

 

28.601 to 28.616.