Sections
19 entriesSection 7591Establishes the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs and places it under the director’s supervision and…Section 7591.1Requires the Governor to appoint the bureau chief and provides that the chief’s salary is fixed under the cited Government Code section.…Section 7591.2Allows the director to delegate any chapter power or duty to the chief except authority to adopt or otherwise act on a…Section 7591.3Allows the director, under civil-service requirements and the referenced provision, to appoint and set compensation for necessary clerical, inspection, investigation, and auditing…Section 7591.4Requires the chief to gather evidence of chapter or regulation violations by unlicensed persons engaging in businesses for which the chapter requires…Section 7591.5Requires the chief to initiate and conduct investigations into an alarm company operator’s business operations on the chief’s own motion when the…Section 7591.6Allows the director, after considering advisory-board recommendations, to establish and enforce reasonable and necessary rules and regulations for applicant examination and licensing,…Section 7591.7Allows the chief or designee to inspect, examine, or investigate relevant records, books, accounts, and files maintained by an alarm company operator.…Section 7591.8Allows the director to automatically suspend a license, registration, or firearms qualification card upon determining that continued possession presents an undue public-safety…Section 7591.9Allows the director to issue written citations, abatement orders, and administrative fines to alarm company operators, qualified managers, or alarm agents for…Section 7591.10Allows the director to deny an alarm-company license, certificate, or registration for specified false statements, convictions, dishonesty, or conduct that would justify…Section 7591.11Requires the bureau to deny a firearm permit to a licensee, qualified manager, or alarm agent with a felony conviction unless reduced…Section 7591.12Requires the chief, when considering denial, suspension, or revocation, to evaluate rehabilitation using listed factors including offense severity, criminal record, later misconduct,…Section 7591.13Allows the chief or designee to cite unlicensed alarm-industry practice or advertising, with fines up to $5,000 and abatement orders generally limited…Section 7591.14Establishes legislative intent that the bureau not maintain a reserve balance above what is necessary for its operating expenses and periodically review…Section 7591.17Requires the Governor to appoint a five-member Alarm Company Operator Disciplinary Review Committee with three actively licensed alarm company operators and two…Section 7591.18Requires the Alarm Company Operator Disciplinary Review Committee to affirm, rescind, or modify appealed bureau decisions involving administrative fines and specified license,…Section 7591.19Allows alarm company operators, qualified managers, and alarm agents to seek disciplinary-review-committee review of specified fines, denials, revocations, or suspensions by written…Section 7591.20Requires the disciplinary review committee, before hearing an appeal, to receive all evidence the bureau used in reaching the challenged decision. The…