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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 533a - Bail Enforcement Agents › Section 29-152j. - Notice to courts and police departments of names of professional bondsmen and bail enforcement agents.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall furnish to all courts and to all organized police departments in the state, the names of all persons licensed as professional bondsmen under chapter 533 or bail enforcement agents under the provisions of sections 29-152f to 29-152i, inclusive, and shall forthwith notify such courts and all such police departments of any change in any such bondsman's or agent's status or of the suspension or revocation of the license of any such bondsman or agent to engage in such business.
(P.A. 97-287, S. 6; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 533a - Bail Enforcement Agents › Section 29-152k. - Notice to law enforcement agency prior to apprehension of principal.

Prior to taking or attempting to take into custody the principal on a bond, a professional bondsman licensed under chapter 533, a surety bail bond agent licensed under chapter 700f or a bail enforcement agent licensed under sections 29-152f to 29-152i, inclusive, shall notify the police department or resident state trooper for, or state police troop having jurisdiction over, the municipality in which the principal is believed to be located of such bondsman's or agent's intentions.
(P.A. 97-287, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 533a - Bail Enforcement Agents › Section 29-152l. - Restrictions on wearing or displaying certain uniforms, badges or other insignia.

(a) No professional bondsman licensed under chapter 533, surety bail bond agent licensed under chapter 700f or bail enforcement agent licensed under sections 29-152f to 29-152i, inclusive, shall wear, carry or display any uniform, badge, shield or other insignia or emblems that purport to indicate that such bondsman or agent is an employee, officer or agent of the state or any political subdivision of the state or of the federal government.
(b) No bail enforcement agent licensed under sections 29-152f to 29-152i, inclusive, shall wear, carry or display a badge that indicates that he or she is a bail enforcement agent or performs the duties of a bail enforcement agent unless the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection has approved such badge. If the commissioner suspends or revokes, or refuses to renew, the license of a bail enforcement agent, such agent shall surrender any badge approved by the commissioner pursuant to this subsection when such agent surrenders such license pursuant to section 29-152i. Any violation of this subsection shall be an infraction.
(P.A. 97-287, S. 9; P.A. 13-94, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 13-94 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re approval of badge of bail enforcement agent, surrender of badge and penalty for violation.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 533a - Bail Enforcement Agents › Section 29-152n. - Penalty.

Any person who violates any provision of sections 29-152e to 29-152m, inclusive, for which no other penalty is provided, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(P.A. 97-287, S. 11; P.A. 99-240, S. 23; P.A. 10-5, S. 52; P.A. 13-94, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 99-240 replaced stated fine and imprisonment with classification of violation of section as class D felony; P.A. 10-5 deleted reference to Sec. 38a-660a, effective May 5, 2010; P.A. 13-94 added “for which no other penalty is provided,”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 533a - Bail Enforcement Agents › Section 29-152o. - Regulations.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to carry out the provisions of sections 29-152f to 29-152i, inclusive.
(P.A. 97-287, S. 12; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-153. - Private detective license required.

No person shall engage in the business of, or solicit business as, a private detective, or make representations to be or advertise as a private detective or as furnishing detective or investigating services, without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
(1949 Rev., S. 3737; 1953, S. 2021d; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 04-192, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: 1969 act extended applicability of provisions to include engaging in business as and soliciting business as watchman, guard or patrol service and deleted provision re license fees for private detectives and private detective agencies; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 04-192 eliminated references to investigator and watchman, guard or patrol service and made a conforming change; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-154. - Qualifications for license. List of employees.

Section 29-154 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 3738; 1957, P.A. 149, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 128; February, 1965, P.A. 538; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 22.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-154b. - Qualifications of corporate stockholders.

The license of a corporation may be denied by the commissioner, or suspended or revoked, if it shall appear that ten per cent or more of the stock of such corporation is held by a person who cannot meet the character standards required of an applicant.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-154c. - Persons vested with police powers ineligible for licensure.

No member of the state, or any town, city or borough, police force or any other person vested with police powers shall be eligible for a license under the provisions of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, no person comprising the corporation, association or partnership may be such a member or person.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 6; P.A. 04-192, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 04-192 substituted reference to Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, for “this chapter”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-155. - Form of application for license. Criminal history records checks. Fingerprints. Photographs. Trade name.

(a) Application for a license as a private detective or as a private detective agency shall be made in writing, under oath, on a form to be furnished by the commissioner. The application shall state the applicant's full name, age, date and place of birth, residences and employment within the past five years and the applicant's present occupation with the names and addresses of employers, the date and place of conviction of any crime and such additional information as the commissioner requires to investigate the qualification, character, competency and integrity of the applicant. If the applicant is an association, corporation or partnership, similar information shall be required of each individual composing or intending to compose such association, corporation or partnership.
(b) The commissioner shall require any applicant for a license under this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks. Each applicant and, in the case of an association, corporation or partnership, each individual composing such association, corporation or partnership, shall submit with the application two complete sets of fingerprints on forms specified and furnished by the commissioner and two photographs, two inches wide by three inches high, taken within six months prior to the application. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.
(c) The application shall state the trade name or proposed trade name to be used by the applicant and the location of the principal place of business and the location of each office and branch office. If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall give the name of the corporation, if different from the proposed trade name, and the date and place of incorporation. Any trade name or proposed trade name shall require the approval of the commissioner. No trade name or designation shall be used which implies any association with any municipal, county or state government or the federal government, or any agency thereof. No licensee shall use any advertisement, seal or card, or any other media which may tend to mislead the public.
(d) The application shall contain such additional information and documentation as the commissioner may require by regulation.
(1949 Rev., S. 3739; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 2; P.A. 01-175, S. 26, 32; P.A. 04-192, S. 5.)
History: 1969 act expanded license application requirements, adding Subsecs. (b) to (d) and rephrasing Subsec. (a); P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (b) by adding language re criminal history records checks in accordance with Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-192 amended Subsec. (a) to replace reference to investigator and watchman, guard or patrol service with reference to private detective agency and make a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-155a. - Applicant to post surety bond and provide general liability insurance certificate.

(a) Each applicant for a license as a private detective or as a private detective agency shall post with the commissioner a bond in favor of the state with surety in the amount of ten thousand dollars. No bond shall be accepted for filing unless it is with a surety company authorized to do business in this state and conditioned that the principal named therein shall not do any act meriting suspension or revocation of such principal's license under the provisions of this chapter. Any person aggrieved by an act of the principal named in such bond in violation of the provisions of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, may proceed on such bond against the principal or surety therein, or both, to recover damages.
(b) Prior to being issued a license, an applicant shall provide a copy of a certificate of general liability insurance for not less than three hundred thousand dollars.
(c) A licensee shall notify the commissioner in writing within thirty days of a change of status in the liability insurance or surety bond required by this section.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 4; P.A. 04-192, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 04-192 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to eliminate reference to each applicant for a license as a security service or a security agency, make a technical change and substitute reference to Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, for “this chapter”, added Subsec. (b) requiring that applicant provide a copy of a certificate of general liability insurance for a minimum of $300,000, and added Subsec. (c) requiring that licensee notify commissioner of any change of status in liability insurance or surety bond.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-155b. - Issuance of license.

Upon being satisfied, after investigation, of the good character, competency and integrity of an applicant, or, if the applicant is an association or partnership, of the individual members thereof, or if a corporation, of all officers and directors thereof, the commissioner may grant a license to conduct such private detective business and to maintain a bureau, agency, subagency, office or branch office for the conduct of such business on the premises stated in such application. The license for an individual private detective shall be as a private detective, and the license for a corporation, association or partnership shall be as a private detective agency. Such license shall be for a term of two years and application for renewal shall be on a form furnished by the commissioner. Each licensee shall permit the department to inspect, review or copy those documents, business records or training records in the licensee's possession that are required by regulation to be maintained.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 7; P.A. 04-192, S. 7; P.A. 05-288, S. 192.)
History: P.A. 04-192 eliminated reference to watchman, guard or patrol agency and investigator and provision requiring that license for an individual conducting a watchman, guard or patrol service be as a security service and if for a corporation, association or partnership as a security agency, required that license be for a term of two years, in lieu of one year, and required licensee to permit department to inspect, review or copy those records required by regulation to be maintained; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-155c. - License fees.

The fee for an individual private detective shall, for an original license, be one thousand four hundred fifty dollars and for renewal of any such license, six hundred twenty-five dollars every two years. The fee for a private detective agency shall, for an original license, be one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and for renewal of any such license, one thousand dollars every two years. If a licensee fails to apply for renewal of any license within ninety days after the expiration thereof, such licensee shall pay for renewal thereof the fee provided for an original license.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 8; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 95; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 25; P.A. 80-297, S. 18, 20; P.A. 89-251, S. 161, 203; P.A. 04-192, S. 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 316.)
History: 1971 act increased renewal fee for license as individual private detective or security service from $200 to $250 per year and made provision for renewal fees for combination licenses; 1972 act made technical correction; P.A. 80-297 raised license fees for: (1) Individual private detective or security service: Initial fee from $300 to $400, renewal from $250 to $300, (2) private detective agency or security agency: Initial fee from $400 to $500, renewal from $300 to $400, (3) combination private detective and security service: Initial, from $300 to $400, renewal from $150 to $200, (4) combination detective agency and security agency: Initial from $400 to $500, renewal from $200 to $300; P.A. 89-251 increased the initial fee for an individual license from $400 to $600 and for renewal from $300 to $450, increased the initial fee for an agency license from $500 to $750 and for renewal from $400 to $600, increased the initial fee for a combined individual license from $400 to $600 and for renewal from $200 to $300 and increased the initial fee for a combined agency license from $500 to $750 and for renewal from $300 to $450; P.A. 04-192 eliminated references to security service and security agency, modified fees for issuance of an original license for an individual private detective from $600 to $1,200 and for renewal of such license from $450 per year to $500 every two years, modified fees for issuance of an original license for a private detective agency from $750 to $1,500 and for renewal of such license from $600 per year to $800 every two years, eliminated fee provisions for a combination private detective and security service license and a combination detective agency and security agency license, substituted 90 days for 6 months re failure to apply for renewal after expiration and made a technical change; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-155d. - Display of license.

Immediately upon the receipt of a license certificate issued by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection pursuant to sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, the licensee shall post and at all times display such license in a conspicuous place at the licensee's place of business. A copy or duplicate of the license certificate shall be conspicuously posted at each branch or suboffice.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 11; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 04-192, S. 9; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 04-192 substituted reference to Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, for “this chapter” and made a technical change; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156. - Licensee's identification card.

Upon the issuance of a license as provided in sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, the commissioner shall issue to each licensee and, in the case of a corporation, association or partnership, each officer or member thereof, a pocket identification card, of such size and design as the commissioner may prescribe, which card shall contain a photograph of the person to whom issued, the name and business address of the licensee, the license number and date of its expiration and the imprint or impress of the seal of the state of Connecticut. Such card shall be carried upon the person to whom issued at all times when engaged in the activities of the licensed business, which card shall be evidence of due authorization pursuant to the terms of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive. All persons to whom such identification cards have been issued shall be responsible for the safe keeping of the same and shall not lend, enable, let or allow any other person to have, hold, possess or display such identification card, and no person shall possess, hold or display any identification card or facsimile thereof, which is not duly authorized and issued by the commissioner pursuant to the foregoing provisions.
(1957, P.A. 149, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 13; P.A. 04-192, S. 10.)
History: 1969 act included provisions re corporations, associations and partnerships, their officers and members, rewriting and expanding provisions re identification cards; P.A. 04-192 substituted references to Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, for “this chapter”, eliminated requirement re fingerprint on card and made a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156b. - Identification card for private investigators.

The licensee of a private detective agency shall issue to each of the agency's private investigators an identification card, of such size, color and design as the commissioner may prescribe, which card shall contain the name and photograph of the private investigator, the name and business address of the licensee, the license number and expiration date, and the certification that the named private investigator is employed as a private investigator of the licensee. Such card shall be carried by the private investigator at all times when engaged in the activities of the licensee. No person shall hold, possess or show an identification card not authorized and issued to such person by a licensed employer, or possess such card after termination of such person's employment with the issuing licensee.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 14; P.A. 04-192, S. 12; P.A. 08-73, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 04-192 limited issuance of identification card to nonuniformed investigators, operators or agents by the licensee of a private detective “agency”, in lieu of “business”, eliminated references to employee, requirement that licensee of a watchman, guard or patrol service issue card to each of his nonuniformed agents and requirement that card contain index fingerprint, and made technical changes; P.A. 08-73 substituted private investigator for references to operator or agent and deleted “nonuniformed”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156d. - Private detective prohibited from using badge or shield.

No private detective licensed under the provisions of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, or officer, director, employee or private investigator of such licensee, or any other person shall wear, carry, accept or show any badge or shield of any description, purporting to indicate that such person is a private detective or connected with the private detective business.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 16; P.A. 04-192, S. 13; P.A. 08-73, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 04-192 eliminated references to investigator, substituted Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, for “this chapter” and made a technical change; P.A. 08-73 substituted “private investigator” for “operator or agent”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156e. - Branch or suboffices.

Any licensee may operate as many branch or suboffices as such licensee deems necessary to conduct the business properly. Such licensee shall advise the commissioner, in writing not later than five business days after opening such branch or suboffice for business, of the location of each branch or suboffice, giving the town or city, street, number and telephone number and the name of the manager of such branch or suboffice.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 10; P.A. 04-192, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 04-192 made technical changes and required that written notice to commissioner be given not later than five business days after opening branch or suboffice for business.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156g. - Use of information.

No person who is or has been an employee of a licensed private detective shall divulge any information to anyone other than such person's employer, or as the employer may direct, except as may be required by law and including a hearing before the commissioner, in respect to any of the work to which such person shall have been assigned by such employer or any other information relating to the business of the employer gained during such employment or association.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 17; P.A. 04-192, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 04-192 eliminated reference to investigator and made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-156h. - Nonuniformed guard services by private detectives or private detective agencies.

Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a private detective or private detective agency from providing nonuniformed guard services for private property or persons in the normal course of their business.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 19; P.A. 04-192, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 04-192 eliminated “or a security service or agency from performing the investigation of offenses upon property they are employed to service”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-159. - Annual list of private detectives and detective agencies.

The commissioner shall annually prepare and publish a list of licensed private detectives and private detective agencies and security services and security agencies and distribute copies of such list to the chiefs of police in Connecticut and to the clerks' offices of the Superior Court of the state and to any licensee upon request.
(1949 Rev., S. 3742; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 96; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 18; P.A. 77-452, S. 59, 72.)
History: 1961 act changed common pleas to circuit court; 1969 act required that list include security services and security agencies, replaced circuit courts with common pleas courts and required that copy be distributed to licensees upon request; P.A. 77-452 deleted reference to common pleas court.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161. - Penalties. Regulations.

(a) Except as provided in section 29-156a, any person who violates any provision of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both. The commissioner may establish, by regulation, civil penalties for violations of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, but no such penalty shall be more than five thousand dollars. No person who violates any provision of section 29-153 shall be eligible to apply for a license for two years. Any experience accrued while operating without being licensed will not be counted toward the requirements specified in section 29-154a.
(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of sections 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive.
(1949 Rev., S. 3744; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 20; P.A. 04-192, S. 18; P.A. 08-73, S. 6.)
History: 1969 act deleted provision which imposed $100 maximum fine and/or up to six months' imprisonment for employees' divulging information gained in the course of employment except as directed by employer or required by law or for making false report to employer, and increased remaining maximum fine from $500 to $5,000; P.A. 04-192 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to authorize commissioner to establish, by regulation, civil penalties for violations of Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive, and provide that no person who violates any provision of Sec. 29-153 shall be eligible to apply for a license for two years and that any experience accrued while not licensed will not be counted to the requirements in Sec. 29-154a, and added Subsec. (b) requiring commissioner to adopt regulations to implement provisions of Secs. 29-153 to 29-161, inclusive; P.A. 08-73 amended Subsec (a) to provide exception to penalty for offense under Sec. 29-156a and make technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161aa. (Formerly Sec. 29-161c). - Licensed security services to provide written notice to law enforcement agencies of assignments of security officers carrying firearms.

Any licensed security service or any firm or corporation employing proprietary security personnel shall furnish the state police or the municipal police department with written notice of the assignments of any security officers or personnel who carry firearms and are stationed within the jurisdiction of such law enforcement agencies.
(P.A. 83-573, S. 2; P.A. 04-192, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 04-192 substituted security service for watchman, guard or patrol service and officers for guards; Sec. 29-161c transferred to Sec. 29-161aa in 2005.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161g. - Security service license required.

No person shall engage in the business of, or solicit business as, a security service, or make representations to be or advertise as furnishing security services, without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 22; P.A. 05-288, S. 194; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 05-288 made a technical change; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161h. - Qualifications for security service license. Appeal.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may grant a security service license to any suitable person, or to any corporation, association or partnership subject to the following qualifications: The applicant for a license as a security service shall be not less than twenty-five years of age and of good moral character and shall have had at least five years' experience in a supervisory management capacity in industrial security, or a supervisor within a federal or state security agency, or within a state or organized municipal police department or shall have had at least ten years' experience as a police officer with a state or organized municipal police department. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, the person making the application shall be an officer of the corporation or a member of the association or partnership, and meet the foregoing qualifications.
(b) The commissioner may, at the commissioner's discretion, substitute up to one year of experience for a security service applicant upon proof of satisfactory participation in a course of instruction pertinent to the license applied for.
(c) No license shall be issued to any person who has been (1) convicted of any felony, (2) convicted of any misdemeanor under section 21a-279, 53a-58, 53a-61, 53a-61a, 53a-62, 53a-63, 53a-96, 53a-175, 53a-176, 53a-178 or 53a-181d, or equivalent conviction in another jurisdiction, within the past seven years, (3) convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude, (4) discharged from military service under conditions that demonstrate questionable moral character, or (5) decertified as a police officer or otherwise had his or her certification canceled, revoked or refused renewal pursuant to subsection (c) of section 7-294d or under the laws of any other jurisdiction.
(d) Any applicant for a security service or security officer license who has been denied such license may appeal in writing to the commissioner within thirty days.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 23; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 31; P.A. 21-33, S. 4.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 added Subdiv. (5) re any person who has been decertified as a police officer or had certification canceled, revoked or refused renewal; P.A. 21-33 added “or under the laws of any other jurisdiction” in Subsec. (c)(5).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161i. - Qualifications of corporate stockholders.

An application for a license of a corporation may be denied by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, or suspended or revoked, if it appears that ten per cent or more of the stock of such corporation is held by a person who cannot meet the character standards required of an applicant.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 24; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161j. - Persons vested with police powers ineligible for licensure.

No member of the state, or any town, city or borough, police force or any other person vested with police powers shall be eligible for a license under the provisions of sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, no person comprising the corporation, association or partnership may be such a member or person.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 25.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161k. - Form of application for license. Criminal history records checks. Fingerprints. Photographs. Trade name.

(a) Application for a license as a security service shall be made in writing, under oath, on a form to be furnished by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. The application shall state the applicant's full name, age, date and place of birth, residences and employment within the past five years and the applicant's present occupation with the names and addresses of employers, the date and place of conviction of any crime and such additional information as the commissioner requires to investigate the qualification, character, competency and integrity of the applicant. If the applicant is an association, corporation or partnership, similar information shall be required of each individual composing or intending to compose such association, corporation or partnership.
(b) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall require any applicant for a license under this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks. Each applicant and, in the case of an association, corporation or partnership, each individual composing such association, corporation or partnership, shall submit with the application two complete sets of fingerprints on forms specified and furnished by the commissioner and two photographs, two inches wide by three inches high, taken within six months prior to the application. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this section shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.
(c) The application shall state the trade name or proposed trade name to be used by the applicant and the location of the principal place of business and the location of each office and branch office. If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall give the name of the corporation, if different from the proposed trade name, and the date and place of incorporation. Any trade name or proposed trade name shall require the approval of the commissioner. No trade name or designation shall be used which implies any association with any municipal, county or state government or the federal government, or any agency thereof. No licensee shall use any advertisement, seal or card, or any other media which may tend to mislead the public.
(d) The application shall contain such additional information and documentation as the commissioner may require by regulation.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 26; P.A. 05-288, S. 195; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (a); pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161l. - Applicant to post surety bond and provide general liability insurance certificate.

(a) Each applicant for a license as a security service shall post with the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection a bond in favor of the state with surety in the amount of ten thousand dollars. No bond shall be accepted for filing unless it is with a surety company authorized to do business in this state and conditioned that the principal named therein shall not do any act meriting suspension or revocation of such principal's license under the provisions of sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive. Any person aggrieved by an act of the principal named in such bond in violation of the provisions of this chapter may proceed on such bond against the principal or surety therein, or both, to recover damages.
(b) Prior to being issued a license, an applicant shall provide a copy of a certificate of general liability insurance for not less than three hundred thousand dollars. The licensee shall notify the commissioner, in writing, within thirty days of a change of status in the liability insurance or surety bond required by this section.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 27; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161m. - Issuance of security service license. Inspection or copying of documents.

Upon being satisfied, after investigation, of the good moral character, competency and integrity of an applicant, or, if the applicant is an association or partnership, of the individual members thereof, or if a corporation, of all officers and directors thereof, the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may grant a license to conduct business as a security service and to maintain a bureau, agency, subagency, office or branch office for the conduct of such business on the premises stated in such application. The commissioner shall grant a security service license to any qualified individual, corporation, association or partnership for a term of two years and application for renewal shall be on a form furnished by the commissioner. Each licensee shall permit the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to inspect, review or copy those documents, business records or training records in the licensee's possession that are required by sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive, or regulation adopted pursuant to section 29-161x, to be maintained.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 28; P.A. 08-73, S. 7; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 08-73 made a technical change, inserted “qualified” re granting of license and added provision re documents required to be maintained per “regulations adopted pursuant to section 29-161x”; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161n. - License fees.

The fee for an individual, association or partnership licensed as a security service shall, for an original license, be one thousand four hundred fifty dollars, and for renewal thereof, six hundred twenty-five dollars every two years. The fee for a corporation licensed as a security service shall, for an original license, be one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and for renewal thereof one thousand dollars every two years. If a licensee fails to apply for renewal of any license within ninety days after the expiration thereof, the licensee shall pay for renewal thereof the fee provided for an original license.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 29; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 318.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased license fees.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161o. - Display of license.

Immediately upon the receipt of a license certificate issued by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection pursuant to section 29-161m, the licensee shall post and at all times display such license in a conspicuous place at the licensee's place of business. A copy or duplicate of the license certificate shall be conspicuously posted at each branch or suboffice.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 30; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: (Revisor's note: In codifying section 30 of P.A. 04-192, an incorrect reference to “section 23 of this act” was deemed by the Revisors to be a reference to “section 28 of this act” and therefore cited as “section 29-161m”); pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161p. - Licensee's identification card.

Upon the issuance of a license as provided in sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive, the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall issue to each licensee and, in the case of a corporation, association or partnership, each officer or member thereof, a pocket identification card, of such size and design as the commissioner may prescribe, which card shall contain a photograph of the person to whom issued, the name and business address of the licensee, the license number and date of its expiration and the imprint or impress of the seal of the state of Connecticut. Such card shall be carried upon the person to whom issued at all times when engaged in the activities of the licensed business, which card shall be evidence of due authorization pursuant to the terms of sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive. All persons to whom such identification cards have been issued shall be responsible for the safe keeping of the same and shall not lend such identification card to any other person or enable, let or allow any other person to have, hold, possess or display such identification card, and no person shall possess, hold or display any identification card or facsimile thereof, which is not duly authorized and issued by the commissioner pursuant to the foregoing provisions.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 31; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161r. - Nonuniformed security officers' identification card.

The licensee of a security service shall issue to each nonuniformed security officer employed by such security service an identification card, of such size, color and design as the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may prescribe, which card shall contain the name and photograph of the security officer, the name and business address of the security service, the license number and expiration date and the certification that the named security officer is employed as a security officer by the security service. Such card shall be carried by the security officer at all times when engaged in the activities of such security officer's employer. No person shall hold, possess or show an identification card not authorized and issued to such person by a licensed employer, or possess such card after termination of such person's employment with the issuing licensee.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 33; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161s. - Uniformed employee's insignia.

The licensee of a security service shall issue to each uniformed employee a metal or woven insignia of a design approved by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, with an inscription thereon containing the word “security”, the name of the licensee and an identification number. Such insignia shall be conspicuously worn at all times by the employee when in uniform and acting in the service of the licensee, and the commissioner may prescribe the manner of displaying such insignia. As used in this section, “uniform” means any manner or type of dress of a particular style and distinctive appearance as distinguished from clothing usually worn by the public.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 34; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161t. - Branches and suboffices.

Any security service may operate as many branch or suboffices as the licensee deems necessary to conduct the business properly. The licensee of the security service shall advise the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in writing, not later than five business days after opening such branch or suboffice for business, of the location of each branch or suboffice, giving the town or city, street address and telephone number and the name of the manager of such branch or suboffice.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 35; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161u. - Investigation of offenses on property guarded by security services.

Nothing in sections 29-163g to 29-161x, inclusive, shall preclude a security service from performing the investigation of offenses upon property such security service is employed to service.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 36.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services › Section 29-161w. - Annual list of security services and security officers.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall annually prepare and publish a list of licensed security services and security officers and distribute copies of such list to the chiefs of police in Connecticut and to the clerks' offices of the Superior Court and to any licensee upon request.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 38; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.