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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="13-604" title_number="13" title_name="Private Detectives" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A private detective agency that employs 5 or more individuals as private detectives shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>maintain commercial general liability insurance, including errors and omissions and completed operations with a $1,000,000 total aggregate; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>submit proof of the required insurance to the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If an applicant for a license intends to employ 5 or more individuals as private detectives, the applicant shall submit proof of the liability insurance required under subsection (a) of this section to the Secretary with the license application.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary may not issue a license to an applicant to whom the insurance requirements of this section would apply unless the applicant submits proof of the insurance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the insurance required for a private detective agency under this section is canceled, forfeited, or otherwise terminated, both the private detective agency and the insurer shall notify the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If a private detective agency fails to maintain the liability insurance required under this section, the license of the private detective agency:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is suspended automatically;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall remain suspended until the agency complies with the requirements under subsection (a) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>may not be reinstated until the agency submits proof of the required insurance to the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
