Sec. 29-156a. Employment of private investigators. Registration. Fee. Penalty.
Sec. 29-156a. Employment of private investigators. Registration. Fee. Penalty. (a) Any licensee may employ as many private investigators as such licensee deems
necessary for the conduct of such licensee's business, provided such employees shall
be of good moral character and at least eighteen years of age.
(b) Immediately upon hiring a private investigator, the licensee shall apply to register such employee with the Commissioner of Public Safety. Such application shall be
made on forms furnished by the commissioner, and, under oath of the employee, shall
give the employee's name, address, date and place of birth, employment for the past
five years, experience in the position applied for, any convictions for violations of the
law and such other information as the commissioner may require, by regulation, to
properly investigate the character, competency and integrity of the employee.
(c) The Commissioner of Public Safety shall require any applicant for registration
under this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks conducted in accordance with section 29-17a. The application for registration shall be accompanied by two sets of fingerprints of the employee and two full-face photographs
of the employee, two inches wide by two inches high, taken no earlier than six months
prior to the date of application for registration, and a twenty-dollar registration fee payable to the state. Subject to the provisions of section 46a-80, no person shall be registered
who has been convicted of a felony, any sexual offense or any crime involving moral
turpitude, or who has been refused a license under the provisions of this chapter for any
reason except lack of minimum experience, or whose license, having been granted,
has been revoked or is under suspension. The commissioner shall register all qualified
employees and so notify the licensee and place the registration form and all related
material on file with the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety.
(d) The licensee shall notify the commissioner not later than five days after the
termination of employment of any registered employees.
(e) Any person, firm or corporation that violates any provision of this section shall
be fined seventy-five dollars for each offense. Each distinct violation of this section
shall be a separate offense and, in the case of a continuing violation, each day thereof
shall be deemed a separate offense.
(1969, P.A. 756, S. 12; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 56; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 80-297, S. 19, 20; P.A. 81-253, S. 3; 81-472, S. 153, 159; P.A. 83-573, S. 5; P.A. 84-546, S. 77, 173; P.A. 89-251, S. 162, 203; P.A. 01-175, S. 27, 32; P.A. 04-192, S. 11; P.A. 08-73, S. 2.)
History: 1972 act required that employees be at least 18, rather than 21, in Subsec. (a), reflecting changed age of
majority, and deleted provision which had allowed employment of persons between eighteen and twenty-one as trainees;
P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A.
80-297 required that applications be accompanied by $5 registration fee in Subsec. (c); P.A. 81-253 amended Subsec. (a)
by eliminating the citizenship requirement for employees; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; P.A. 83-573 amended
Subsec. (b), eliminating the requirement of reporting an employee's arrests in the registration application form and amended
Subsec. (c), requiring photographs to be two inches high, rather than three, increasing the registration fee from $5 to $10,
and providing that no person convicted of any sexual offense may be approved for employment, deleting references to
persons convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude and persons who are alcoholics, drifters or vagrants, or who have
a record of mental illness or those with other than an honorable discharge from the military service; P.A. 84-546 made
technical change to subsec. (b); P.A. 89-251 amended Subsec. (c) to increase the fee from $10 to $13; P.A. 01-175 made
technical changes for the purposes of gender neutrality in Subsecs. (a), (b) and (c), and amended Subsecs. (c) and (e) by
adding language re criminal history records checks, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-192 amended Subsec. (c) to substitute
registration for licensure of employees, to eliminate "with and without head covering" re photographs and to increase
registration fee from $13 to $20, and eliminated former Subsec. (e) re waiver of state and national criminal history records
checks and submission of fingerprints and photographs for any employee of a licensed private detective or security service
or agency within previous six months; P.A. 08-73 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to substitute private investigator for
references to agents, operators, assistants, guards, watchmen or patrolmen, made technical changes in Subsecs. (b) to (d)
and added Subsec. (e) re penalty.