7720
PHRASEOLOGY POLICE OFFICERS & DRIVERS
CROSS-REF. Detective or Patrol Agency & Drivers (N/A CT, ME, NC, VA); Security Enforcement or Protection—Contract
& Drivers; Juvenile Detention Center—All
Employees & Salespersons, Drivers includes halfway
houses, juvenile detention centers, “boot camps,” or homes
for convicts. Refer to Code 8842 for group homes, group foster homes, halfway houses
that provide rehabilitation services, shelters, and independent supportive
living homes for mentally, physically or emotionally challenged individuals.
(N/A FL,
State Special: Alaska—Pilot Car Service Contractor & Drivers—applies only to risks engaged in furnishing employees to customers for pilot car service in connection with the transportation of oversize or overweight loads. Pilot car service in connection with construction operations to be separately rated as Code 5516—Street or Road Maintenance or Construction;
California—Police, Sheriffs, Constables, Marshals, Animal Control Officers, Game and Fish Wardens, and Jailers—Including Deputies—Not Volunteers;
Arizona—add the following footnote: Part-time or volunteer police officers and regular members of the Arizona highway patrol reserve to be separately rated as 8411—Voluntary Municipal Personnel;
Arkansas—Check Cashing Companies— Employees of Contracting Agencies in Bank Service: Guards, Patrols, Messengers, or Armored Car Crews & Drivers;
Colorado, Georgia—add the following footnote: Additional premium of $1.00 per day shall be collected for each employee when engaged as a strike breaker or as a strike guard. This premium shall always be collected in addition to the earned premium and/or the minimum premium as otherwise determined by this or other classifications on the policy;
Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina—add the following footnote: Applies to public, municipal, township, county or state employees. Private security guard services, detective or patrol agencies to be separately rated as Code 7723;
Massachusetts—Banks and Trust Companies: Employees of Contracting Agencies in Bank Service: Guards, Patrols, Messengers or Armored Car Crews & Drivers;
Massachusetts—Forest Rangers & Drivers;
Massachusetts—Highway Operations—Toll Roads—By County or Municipal Employees: Police Officers & Drivers;
Massachusetts—Municipal, Township, County or State Employee NOC—Major Governmental Occupations Assigned to Classifications Other Than Code 9410: Circuit Court—Officer & Drivers, Criminal Laboratory Technician & Drivers, Jails or Prisons—Miscellaneous Employees—Not Regular or Volunteer Policemen & Drivers, Police Department—Miscellaneous Employees—Not Regular or Volunteer Policemen & Drivers, Probation Officers & Drivers, Attendants—Juvenile Home & Drivers;
Massachusetts—Plant Protection—Special Employees Hired for Plant Protection During Strike Periods & Drivers;
New Jersey—Bridge Operation & Drivers—applies to toll or free bridges or tunnels. Includes approaches or maintenance. Structural alterations or repairs or the painting of the bridge or tunnel structure to be separately rated. Ticket sellers or ticket or toll collectors having no other duties in connection with the operation or maintenance of the bridge or tunnel to be separately rated as Code 9410—Municipal, Township, County or State Employees NOC;
New Jersey—Policemen, Sheriffs' Officers or Correctional Institution—Guards—Paid—Public & Drivers;
New Jersey—Vehicular Tunnel Operation & Drivers—applies to toll or free bridges or tunnels. Includes approaches or maintenance. Structural alterations or repairs or the painting of the bridge or tunnel structure to be separately rated. Ticket sellers or ticket or toll collectors having no other duties in connection with the operation or maintenance of the bridge or tunnel to be separately rated as Code 9410—Municipal, Township, County or State Employees NOC;
New York—Sheriffs or Deputy Sheriffs & Drivers—payroll of sheriffs or deputy sheriffs, whether active or inactive, shall be included, subject to a minimum payroll of $100 per annum per person. An additional premium of $1.00 per day shall be collected for each employee engaged in strike duty either as a strike breaker or as a strike guard. This additional premium shall be collected in every event in addition to the earned premium and/or the minimum premium as otherwise determined by this or other classifications on the policy;
Oregon—Adult/Juvenile Detention Center & Drivers—Code 7720 applies to secure lockdown facilities with armed personnel which house adult or juvenile offenders. Organizations that specialize in one type of social service must be separately classified. Businesses that only have group homes are classified to Code 8842, detoxification treatment and rehabilitation hospitals are classified to Code 8833, and organizations that provide only adult day care are classified to Code 8835;
Oregon—Flagging Service Contractor & Drivers—applies only to risks engaged in furnishing employees for flagging service at customer's construction site for purposes of traffic control and safety;
Oregon—Pilot Car Service Contractor & Drivers—applies only to risks engaged in furnishing employees to customers for pilot car service in connection with the transportation of oversize or overweight loads;
Vermont—add the following footnote: When volunteer reserve police officers are employed, the actual payroll of all such officers shall be included with the payroll of regular police officers in computing the premium. In no case, however, shall the pay of any such police officer be taken at less than $275 per annum;
SCOPE Code 7720 principally applies to police department employees of municipalities, townships, counties or states. This classification would apply to all employees of a police department except clerical office employees qualifying for the assignment of Code 8810 in accordance with Basic Manual Rule 1-B-2-a (Rule IV-B-2-a—Classifications—Standard Exception Classifications—Clerical—Office Employees, 1996 edition). Code 7720 would apply to any clerical employee of a police department who had any other duty in connection with the police department's function. This classification would also apply to volunteer or auxiliary police officers, correction department employees, highway patrols, probation officers, parking meter readers, national guard persons, penitentiary employees, sheriffs and jail employees, etc.
Code 7720 also is assigned to private security services, protective or patrol corps, protective agencies, airport security screening employees, armored car service companies, guards and messengers employed by a contracting agency engaged in providing such services for banks, forest rangers, game and fish wardens, hunting and fishing guides, and businesses engaged in providing watch guard services for others. This classification is assigned to inspectors for Departments of Motor Transportation and inspectors at permanent truck weighing stations. All employees of private security services would be assigned to Code 7720 except those clerical office employees qualifying under the Basic Manual rule. Private security services may include crowd management at athletic events, conventions and concerts. Employees of a private security agency whose assigned duties are those of a store detective or hotel detective would be assigned to Code 7720. There is no distinction made as to whether these employees are armed or unarmed, or whether or not they have the official authority or power to arrest.
It should be noted that in some states there is a separate classification applicable to private security guard services and private detective or patrol agencies.
Specialty contractors providing flagging services or pilot car services at construction sites for purposes of traffic control and safety are classified to Code 7720. When employees of the construction contractor perform these services, the appropriate construction classification applies.
Refer to Code 7228 for classification procedures for dispatchers.
State Addendum
Massachusetts —regular members of police departments employed by, or
volunteer members associated with, municipalities, townships, counties
or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are, with exception of private
duty details, subject to M.G.L. Chapter 41, Section 111F, and therefore
are not generally covered under the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation
Act, Chapter 152. It is the carrier's responsibility to determine
if the police officers are employees or excludable municipal employees
for workers compensation purposes with respect to private duty details.
If it is determined that the police officers are employees, the carrier
should determine premium in accordance with Rule V—Premium Basis
of the MA Manual. Code 7720 would apply to all employees of a police
department except clerical office employees qualifying for the assignment
of Code 8810 in accordance with MA Manual Rule IV-2-a—Classifications—Standard
Exception Classifications—Clerical—Office Employees. Code
7720 would apply to any clerical employee of a police department who
had any other duty in connection with the police department's function.
All employees of private security services would be assigned to Code
7720 except those clerical office employees qualifying under the MA
Manual rule. In Massachusetts, juvenile
detention centers, boot camps and pre-release homes for convicts,
often referred to as halfway houses are assigned, by analogy, to classification
Code 7720. Refer to Codes 8868 and 9101 for staffed residential group homes. And, refer to Code 8837 to review the representative list of social service
agency operations and their classification procedure, which represents
classification by analogy (Code 8842 is N/A MA). Refer to Code 7219 for classification procedures for dispatchers.