For the purpose of this chapter, the terms in this part have the meanings given them, unless another intention clearly appears.
"Agency" has the meaning given it in Minnesota Statutes, section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (f).
"Appointing authority" means the public official, board, commission, or other person or group of persons responsible for the initial appointment and continued tenure of persons employed by the agency as peace officers and part-time peace officers.
"Appointment" means the official declaration provided by the agency to the POST Board which indicates that the agency has engaged the services of a peace officer or part-time peace officer beginning on a specified date.
"Board" or "POST Board" means the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training.
"Certification" means official acknowledgment by the board that a school meets all of the criteria listed in parts 6700.0300 and 6700.0400 to offer professional peace officer education or the academic component or clinical skills component of the professional peace officer education.
"Chief law enforcement officer" means the designated head and the highest ranking board-licensed peace officer within an agency.
"Conviction" means that a person has been charged with a crime and the person was found guilty of that crime, regardless of length of or imposition or execution of any sentence received, any deferred finding of guilt or imposition of sentence by the court, any continuance for dismissal granted by the court, or any expungement of the offense records or conviction.
"Coordinator" means a person who is employed full-time by a certified school, and designated by a certified school, to manage the day-to-day activities of the professional peace officer education program.
"Eligible to be licensed" means the status of an individual who has passed the peace officer licensing examination or the reciprocity examination, but who has not yet secured employment as a peace officer.
"Guest lecturer" means a person who is invited by the instructor to teach occasionally in a school or a board-approved course in continuing education.
"Inactive licensed officer" means an individual who holds a currently valid peace officer license issued by the board, but who is not currently employed by an agency.
"Instructor" means a person who is recognized as being qualified to teach in a school or board-approved continuing education course.
"Part-time peace officer" has the meaning given it in Minnesota Statutes, section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (d).
"Peace officer" has the meaning given it in Minnesota Statutes, section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (c).
"School" means a postsecondary institution which is accredited by one of the six regional accrediting associations and authorized to award academic degrees including, but not limited to, Associate of Arts (A.A.) degrees, Associate of Science (A.S.) degrees, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degrees, and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees.
"Postsecondary degree" means an academic degree awarded by a school.
"Postsecondary certificate" means a nonacademic title awarded by a school that shows completion of a specific course of study.
"Classroom discrimination" means oral, written, graphic, or physical conduct directed against any person or group of persons because of their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran's status that has the purpose or reasonably foreseeable effect of demeaning or intimidating that person or group of persons.
11 SR 2337; 14 SR 12; 18 SR 1961; L 2005 c 10 art 1 s 82; 32 SR 2173
November 1, 2018
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes