TITLE 5
Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-5.1
Private Security Guard Businesses
SECTION 5-5.1-8
§ 5-5.1-8 License qualifications.
(a) Every applicant, or in the case of a partnership each partner, or in the
case of a corporation, each officer and general, and each shareholder owning a
ten percent (10%) or greater interest in the applicant; provided, the applicant
is not a publicly traded corporation, shall meet the following qualifications
before it may engage in any business licensed under this chapter:
(1) Be eighteen (18) years of age;
(2) Be a citizen of the United States or a resident alien;
(3) Not have been convicted in any jurisdiction of a felony;
(4) Not have had his or her license or registration revoked
or application for the license or registration denied by the attorney general
or by the appropriate authority of any other jurisdiction;
(5) Not have been declared by any court of competent
jurisdiction incompetent by reason of mental defect or disease and not having
been restored;
(6) Not suffer from habitual drunkenness or from narcotics
addiction or dependence; and
(7) Be of good moral character.
(b) A corporation seeking a license shall be incorporated
under the laws of this state or shall be qualified to do business within this
state with a valid certificate of authority issued by the secretary of state
and an agent for service of process designated as required by law.
(c) With verification of no criminal background as
established in subsection (a) of this section, any person engaged in the
private security guard industry, prior to January 1, 1988, and who continues to
be engaged as of January 1, 1988, may apply for a security agent license. This
initial application will be treated as a renewal of a license.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 112, § 1.)