Title 5, Title 5 and Professions

The licensing authority shall follow the procedures for adoption of rules established by the administrative procedures act, chapter 35 of title 42.

(a) It is unlawful and punishable as provided in § 5-57-41 for any person to engage in the alarm business within this state without having first obtained an alarm business license from the state licensing authority, subject to subsection (c) of this section; provided, that nothin…

(a) Applications for licenses required by the provisions of this chapter shall be filed with the licensing authority on a form provided by the licensing authority. If the applicant is an individual, the application shall be subscribed and sworn to by the individual. If the applic…

(a) Every alarm business shall meet either the experience requirement of subsection (c) or the examination requirement of subsection (f) before it may engage in the alarm business. (b) Applicants engaged in the alarm business on September 1, 1977, have three (3) months from the d…

After receipt of an application for a license, the licensing authority shall conduct an investigation to determine whether the facts presented in the application are true and shall receive from the department of the attorney general all records of criminal information that it has…

Within thirty (30) days after receipt of an application, the licensing authority shall determine whether the applicant has met the requirements of this chapter. In the event that additional information is required from the applicant by the licensing authority to complete its inve…

The licensing authority may deny the application for an alarm business license if it finds that the applicant or the individual having the authority and the responsibility for the management and operation of the applicant’s alarm business within the state or the individual whom t…

For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations have the meaning given in this chapter. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the plural number include the singular number and words used in the singular number include th…

(a) The procedure of the licensing authority in approving or denying an application shall be as follows: (1)(i) If the application is approved, the licensing authority shall notify the applicant, in writing, of the approval, and shall state that if bond is not received with the a…

(a) No license shall be issued under this chapter until the applicant files with the licensing authority a surety bond made payable to the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) conditioned to recover against the principal, by reason of wrongful acts of a material nat…

Application for renewal of a license must be received by the licensing authority on a form provided by the licensing authority no less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date of the license, subject to the right of the licensing authority to permit late filing upon goo…

(a) A nonrefundable application fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) shall be remitted with each application to cover investigation and administrative costs. (b) The licensing authority shall promulgate rules and regulations mandating the term of license for each license…

(a) No license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be assigned or transferred, either by operation of law or otherwise. (b) If the license is held by an owner rather than a corporation and that owner dies, becomes disabled, or ceases to engage in the alarm bus…

(a) Licenses for alarm businesses may be revoked by the licensing authority in the manner stated in this section if the licensee or any of its owners, partners, principal corporate officers, or the individual having the authority and the responsibility for the management and oper…

The license, when issued, shall be in a form prescribed by the licensing authority and shall include: (1) The name of the licensee; (2) The nature and type of service to be performed; (3) The business name under which the licensee is authorized to operate; (4) The addresses of th…

(a) Within seventy-two (72) hours after receipt of the license certificate, the licensee shall cause the license certificate to be posted and displayed at all times in a conspicuous place in the principal office of the licensee within the state. Copies of the license certificate …

The licensee shall notify the licensing authority within thirty (30) days of any material change in the operations of the business or information previously furnished, or required to be furnished, to the licensing authority or any occurrence that could be reasonably expected to a…

(a) It is unlawful and punishable as provided in § 5-57-41 for any individual to function as an alarm agent or to perform the duties described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section without first obtaining an identification card (referred to as “I.D.” card). (b) Owners, princ…

The department of labor and training shall carry out the functions and duties conferred upon it by this chapter and shall be referred to, in that context, as “the licensing authority.”

After receipt of an application for an I.D. card, the licensing authority shall conduct an investigation to determine whether the facts stated in the application are true and shall receive from the department of the attorney general all records of criminal information that it has…

Action to approve or deny an application of an individual for an I.D. card shall be taken as expeditiously as possible by the licensing authority, but that action shall be taken within ninety (90) days after receipt of the application unless the licensing authority requires addit…

After receipt of written notice from the licensing authority of denial of an I.D. card, the I.D. card applicant may request a hearing in the same manner and in accordance with the same procedure as that provided in § 5-57-20(b).

(a) For purposes of this section only, when the term “alarm agent” is used, it also applies to an individual required to obtain a permanent I.D. card from the licensing authority or a temporary I.D. card from an alarm business subject to this chapter. (b) Alarm agent I.D. cards m…

No I.D. card issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be transferable. I.D. cards issued by the licensing authority must be surrendered to the licensing authority by the I.D. cardholder or employer of the cardholder upon termination of employment. A new application…

(a) I.D. cards issued by the licensing authority shall be valid for a period of two (2) years. An I.D. card renewal form must be filed by the cardholder with the licensing authority not less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the I.D. card. The fee for renewal of an…

An I.D. card shall be subject to expiration and renewal during the period in which the holder of the I.D. card is subject to an order of suspension.

After an alarm agent or any other individual required to obtain an I.D. card under this chapter has received a notice of suspension or revocation of his or her I.D. card, that individual shall not engage in the alarm business unless specifically authorized to do so by order of th…

(a) Immediately upon the effective date of this chapter [September 1, 1977], no local governmental subdivision within this state shall enact any ordinance or promulgate any rules or regulations relating to the licensing of alarm businesses, alarm agents, or other individuals requ…

Any person aggrieved by any final action of the licensing authority under this chapter shall have the right of appeal directly to the superior court and shall be entitled to a trial de novo. After the superior court has acquired jurisdiction, all administrative action taken on th…

The licensing authority shall have authority to consider a petition for reinstatement of a revoked alarm business license.

(a) Any person found guilty of violating any of the following provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, or both: (1) Engaging in the alarm business without complyin…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of any sum or so much that may be req…

The director of labor and training has the authority to hire and terminate the clerical and professional personnel, including a chief licensing examiner, to handle daily operations of the licensing authority that are necessary to enable it to fulfill its mandate under the provisi…