Sections
35 entriesSection 7520Prohibits any unlicensed person from engaging in a business regulated by the chapter, acting or claiming to act as a licensee, or…Section 7520.3Requires private-investigator LLCs to maintain liability insurance: at least $1,000,000 for up to five named members, plus $100,000 per additional member, capped…Section 7520.5Allows a private investigator licensed in another state to continue in California for up to 60 days an investigation originating in that…Section 7521Defines a private investigator as a person, excluding specified insurance adjusters, who for consideration provides personal protection under the cited provision or…Section 7521.5Allows a private investigator to provide personal, but not property, protection when incidental to a previously assigned investigation, subject to the stated…Section 7522Exempts exclusive unarmed employees, government officers on duty, credit-rating businesses, charities, attorneys, insurers, banks, public-record researchers, certain off-duty peace officers, insurance adjusters,…Section 7523Requires a nonexempt private investigator to hold a chapter license and prohibits knowingly engaging a nonexempt unlicensed person. Licensure violations or conspiracy…Section 7523.5Allows a superior court, on a bureau petition approved by the director, to enjoin actual or threatened unlicensed private-investigator violations and impose…Section 7524Requires private-investigator service agreements and modifications to be written, identify investigator, dates, scope, report terms, services, materials, and fees, and be authorized…Section 7525Requires an application for a license governed by the chapter to be submitted on the form prescribed by the director and accompanied…Section 7525.1Requires verified private-investigator license applications to provide applicant, business, qualification, ownership, and control information; covered individuals provide a prior-year photograph, two fingerprint…Section 7525.2Requires a qualified manager license applicant to be at least 18, meet specified experience requirements, file the prescribed signed application, submit photographs,…Section 7525.3Requires private investigator license applicants and qualified managers to undergo fingerprint-based state and national criminal-history background checks. The bureau must submit fingerprints…Section 7526Requires a license applicant or the applicant’s qualified manager, before a license may be granted, to be at least 18 years old,…Section 7526.1Allows the director, in sole discretion, to grant a probationary license subject to appropriate conditions, modify or end those conditions on petition,…Section 7527Allows the director to require a license applicant or the applicant’s qualified manager to demonstrate qualifications through an examination. The examination may…Section 7527.1Requires the bureau, when creating or updating the licensing examination, to consider privacy-law and professional-ethics questions and whether to add a separate…Section 7527.5Allows payment of the prescribed application fee to cover one examination for an applicant or qualified manager without an additional examination charge.…Section 7528Requires the chief to issue a license in the form and content determined under the cited provision and, upon a licensee’s request…Section 7528.5Requires every licensee to keep the license posted at all times in a conspicuous place at the licensee’s principal place of business.…Section 7529Requires the bureau to issue an enhanced photo identification card with initial licensure and each biennial renewal to specified active owners, partners,…Section 7530Prohibits assignment of a license issued under the chapter except through the stated process. Allows a licensee, with the chief’s consent and…Section 7531Requires a licensee to remain legally responsible at all times for the good conduct of every employee or agent in the business,…Section 7531.5Requires each licensee to maintain a record containing information about the licensee’s employees as prescribed by the director. Establishes an ongoing employee-record…Section 7532Prohibits a licensee from using a fictitious or other business name without written bureau authorization, which cannot be granted for confusingly similar…Section 7533Requires each licensee to file with the bureau the complete address of the principal place of business, including the street name and…Section 7533.2Requires an initial license applicant or licensee seeking reassignment to state on the application whether the applicant or licensee is a limited…Section 7533.5Requires a licensee to notify the bureau within 30 days of specified changes in corporate officers, LLC members or managers, or new…Section 7534Requires every licensee advertisement soliciting or advertising business to display the licensee’s business name, business address or telephone number, and license number…Section 7535Prohibits a licensee, beginning January 1, 2025, from advertising or doing business away from the principal location on bureau records without a…Section 7536Requires each licensee’s business to operate under active California direction of the licensee or qualified manager, who must satisfy examination and qualification…Section 7537Allows an immediate family member to continue a deceased individual licensee’s business for 120 days if written permission is sought within 30…Section 7538Allows the director, after a hearing, to deny a license unless the applicant shows that specified responsible persons have not committed listed…Section 7538.5Allows the director to refuse a chapter license to specified individuals connected with a revoked, suspended, or unrenewed-under-suspension license, including persons who…Section 7539Limits disclosure of investigative information to law enforcement, legal requirements, or client direction; bars false reports, badges, government impersonation, unauthorized private entry,…