NY Gen Bus L § 89-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 7-A - Security Guard Act 89-H - Requirements for a Registration Card.

§  89-h.  Requirements  for  a  registration  card.  To  qualify for a   registration card to perform  security  guard  functions,  an  applicant   shall fulfill the following requirements:1.  Application:  file  an application with the department sworn to or   affirmed by the applicant in such form and  including  such  information   and attachments as may be prescribed or requested by the department upon   consultation  with the security guard advisory council including but not   limited to the character and fitness, competence and employment  history   of the applicant;2.  Training: file a certificate with the department certifying either   that the applicant has satisfactorily completed a minimum of eight hours   of pre-assignment training as prescribed by the division  or  that  such   requirement  has  been  waived  in accordance with section eight hundred   forty-one-c of the executive law;3. Age: be at least eighteen years of age;5. Criminal record: not have been convicted of a serious  offense,  or   of  a  misdemeanor  in  the  state  or  of  any  offense  in  any  other   jurisdiction which, if committed  in  this  state,  would  constitute  a   misdemeanor, and which, in the discretion of the secretary, bears such a   relationship to the performance of the duties of a security guard, as to   constitute a bar to employment;6. Character and fitness: be of good moral character and fitness;7.  Competence:  not  have  been  declared  by  any court of competent   jurisdiction to be incompetent by reason of  mental  disease  or  defect   which has not been removed;8. Employment history: not have been discharged from a correctional or   law enforcement agency for incompetence or misconduct as determined by a   court   of   competent  jurisdiction,  administrative  hearing  officer,   administrative law judge, arbitrator, arbitration panel  or  other  duly   constituted  tribunal,  or  resigned from such agency while charged with   misconduct or incompetence; provided however, that an applicant who  has   been  discharged  or  has  resigned  from such agency while charged with   misconduct or incompetency may submit an explanation to  the  department   and request a waiver of this requirement;9. Disability: a physical or mental disability or disability by reason   of  intoxication or the use of, addiction to or dependence on alcohol or   drugs which, as determined by  the  department,  renders  the  applicant   unable  to  perform  the  essential  functions  of  the  security  guard   position,  with  or  without  reasonable  accommodation,  or   who,   as   determined by the department, poses a direct threat to health or safety;10.  Fees:  pay  (a) a fee of thirty-six dollars for processing of the   application, investigation of the applicant and for the initial biennial   registration period. Such fees shall be deposited to the credit  of  the   business  and  licensing  services  account  established pursuant to the   provisions of section ninety-seven-y of the state finance law; and (b) a   fee  pursuant  to  subdivision  eight-a   of   section   eight   hundred   thirty-seven  of the executive law, and amendments thereto, for the cost   of the division's full search  and  retain  procedures,  and  a  fee  as   determined  by  the  federal bureau of investigation for the cost of its   fingerprint search procedures, which  fees  shall  be  remitted  by  the   department to the division and federal bureau of investigation; and11.  Changes:  give  the  department  written  notice, within fourteen   calendar days of occurrence, of any change of circumstances which varies   from the information previously given to the department hereunder.