For purposes of sections 7.170 to 7.180, the following means:
Detective Agency.
Any person engaged in a detective business, for hire, which employs one or more persons as employees, assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, or operatives, except that persons engaged in such business whose employees, other than office employees, are in full uniform shall not be classed as a detective agency.
Detective Business.
The business of making, for hire, an investigation for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following matters: crimes against any commonwealth or wrongs done or threatened; the habits, conduct, movements, associates, transactions, reputation, or character of persons; the credibility of witnesses or other persons; the location or recovery of lost or stolen property; the securing of evidence to be used before authorized investigating committees, boards of award or arbitration, or in the trial of civil or criminal cases; accidents, or injury to real or personal property; or strikes.
Private Detective.
A person engaged in the detective business, for hire, who does not employ or use any employees, assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, or operatives.
No person shall establish, maintain or operate as a detective within the city unless a license for that use is obtained from the city. Every private detective, whether for hire or not, shall be deemed a private detective subject to the provisions of sections 7.170 to 7.180. Each licensee shall meet the standards as described in sections 7.000 to 7.006.
Nothing in sections 7.170 to 7.180 shall apply to the following persons:
(1) 
Any officer belonging to the police or fire agency of the United States, the state, or any county, city, town, or other municipal corporation, appointed or elected by due authority of law, insofar as their activities in such official capacity are concerned;
(2) 
Any person in the employ of any police or fire department of the United States or any agency of the United States, the state, or a county, city, town or other municipal corporation, while engaged in the performance of official duty;
(3) 
Any United States or state district attorney, the United States or state attorney general, or the city attorney, or their deputies or assistants, or any person in the employ of such district attorney, attorney general, or city attorney while engaged in the performance of official duties;
(4) 
Any private security employee;
(5) 
An insurance adjuster licensed in this state and performing duties authorized by the license;
(6) 
Any other person engaged in the business of doing only police work and not in the detective or secret service business;
(7) 
Any attorney at law, or any employee thereof, including but not limited to clerks, secretaries, legal assistants, and paralegals, acting under the supervision and direction of an attorney authorized to practice law in the state of Oregon;
(8) 
Any person holding a valid current detective or private detective license from any other governmental jurisdiction in the state of Oregon. Such persons shall, however, notify the police department of their intention to act as a private detective within the city of Springfield, prior to so acting;
(9) 
Fire investigators working solely for property owner, lending institute, or insurance company.
Every private detective and every employee of a detective agency licensed shall at all times have in their possession an identification card, the form of which is to be approved by the city manager and the police department. No person so licensed or the employee of any agency so licensed shall engage in any work coming within the purview of sections 7.170 to 7.180 without having the identification card in their possession. Upon revocation of the license required by sections 7.170 to 7.180, the identification cards of all employees of an agency whose license has been revoked shall be surrendered.
A bond, which shall be approved as to form by the risk manager, must be furnished by the applicant for a license under sections 7.170 to 7.180 before the license is issued. The applicant for the license shall execute and deliver to the city manager a bond with sufficient surety in the sum of $1,000, if a private detective, and in the sum of $2,500, if a detective agency, conditioned upon the faithful and honest conduct of the business by the applicant. The bond shall be taken in the name of the city, and any person injured by the willful, malicious, or wrongful act of the licensee may bring an action on the bond in the person’s name to recover damages suffered by reason of the licensee.
Each licensee shall be required to pay the applicable license fee as set by council resolution.