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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="13-304" title_number="13" title_name="Private Detectives" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Private Detective Agency Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An applicant for a license shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>submit to the Secretary an application in the manner and format designated by the Secretary;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>submit the documents required under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>pay to the Secretary, in a method approved by the Secretary, the fees required under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the applicant is a firm, the representative member shall complete the application and otherwise be responsible for the firm’s compliance with this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An applicant for a license shall pay to the Secretary an application fee of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>$200, if the applicant is an individual; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>$375, if the applicant is a firm; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the fees authorized under subsection (c)(2) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>As part of the application for a license, the applicant shall submit to the Secretary the fingerprints required under subsection (c)(2)(i) of this section.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the applicant is a firm, the applicant shall pay the cost of the fingerprint card record checks for each firm member.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Department of State Police shall apply to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check for each applicant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As part of the application for a criminal history records check, the Department of State Police shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>two complete sets of the applicant’s legible fingerprints taken on forms approved by the Director of the Central Repository and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to Maryland criminal history records; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In accordance with §§ 10–201 through 10–234 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward to the applicant and the Department of State Police a printed statement of the applicant’s criminal history record information.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The subject of a criminal history records check under this section may contest the contents of the printed statement issued by the Central Repository as provided in § 10–223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the applicant is an individual, the application provided by the Secretary shall require:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the name of the applicant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the age of the applicant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the address of the applicant; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the current and previous employment of the applicant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the applicant is a firm, the application provided by the Secretary shall require:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a list of all of the firm members; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for each firm member, the same information required regarding an individual applicant under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>For all applicants, the application shall require:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the address of the applicant’s proposed principal place of business and of each proposed branch office;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any trade or fictitious name that the applicant intends to use while conducting the business of the private detective agency;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the submission of a facsimile of any trademark that the applicant intends to use while conducting the business of the private detective agency; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>as the Secretary considers appropriate, any other information to assist in the evaluation of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>an individual applicant; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if the applicant is a firm, any firm member.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The application provided by the Secretary shall contain a statement advising the applicant that willfully making a false statement on an application is a misdemeanor, subject to a fine or imprisonment or both, as provided under §§ 13–705 and 13–707 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the applicant is an individual, the application shall be signed, under oath, by the individual.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the applicant is a firm, the application shall be signed, under oath, by the representative member, as the representative member, and by all the other firm members.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the applicant is an individual, the application shall be accompanied by at least three names of individuals who can attest to the character of the applicant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the applicant is a firm, the application shall be accompanied by at least three names of individuals who can attest to the character of each firm member.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>An applicant for a license who intends to employ at least 5 individuals as private detectives shall submit with the application proof of commercial general liability insurance, including errors and omissions and completed operations with a $1,000,000 total aggregate minimum, as required under § 13–604 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>In addition to meeting the other requirements of this section, a nonresident applicant shall submit a consent and any related document, as required by § 13–605 of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
