Oregon Revised Statutes Executive Branch; Organization § 181A.840

(1) “Certification” means recognition by the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training that a private security professional meets all of the qualifications listed in ORS 181A.855.

(2) “Executive manager” means a person:

(3) “Instructor” means any person who has been certified by the department as meeting the requirements to provide instruction to private security providers or applicants.

(4) “License” means recognition by the department that an executive manager or supervisory manager meets the requirements adopted by the Board on Public Safety Standards and Training as necessary to provide private security services.

(5) “Primary responsibility” means an activity that is fundamental to, and required or expected in, the regular course of employment and is not merely incidental to employment.

(6) “Private security professional” means an individual who performs, as the individual's primary responsibility, private security services for consideration, regardless of whether the individual, while performing the private security services, is armed or unarmed or wears a uniform or plain clothes, and regardless of whether the individual is employed part-time or full-time to perform private security services.

(7) “Private security provider” means any individual who performs the functions of a private security professional, executive manager, supervisory manager or instructor.

(8) “Private security services” means the performance of at least one of the following activities:

(9) “Supervisory manager” means an employee of or a person supervised by an executive manager who has as a primary responsibility the supervision of certified private security professionals.