Connecticut General Statutes 29-161h – Qualifications for security service license. Appeal
(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may grant a security service license to any suitable person, or to any corporation, association or partnership subject to the following qualifications: The applicant for a license as a security service shall be not less than twenty-five years of age and of good moral character and shall have had at least five years’ experience in a supervisory management capacity in industrial security, or a supervisor within a federal or state security agency, or within a state or organized municipal police department or shall have had at least ten years’ experience as a police officer with a state or organized municipal police department. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, the person making the application shall be an officer of the corporation or a member of the association or partnership, and meet the foregoing qualifications.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 29-161h
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Security officer: means the licensed and registered person hired to safeguard and protect persons and property, by (A) the detection or prevention of any unlawful intrusion or entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, arson or trespass on the property such security officer is hired to protect, or (B) the prevention, observation, or detection of any unauthorized activity on the property the security officer was hired to protect. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
- Security service: means any person, firm, association or corporation that, for consideration, provides to another person, firm, association or corporation one or more of the following: (A) The prevention or detection of intrusion, entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, fire, or trespass on the property the security service was hired to protect. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
(b) The commissioner may, at the commissioner’s discretion, substitute up to one year of experience for a security service applicant upon proof of satisfactory participation in a course of instruction pertinent to the license applied for.
(c) No license shall be issued to any person who has been (1) convicted of any felony, (2) convicted of any misdemeanor under section 21a-279, 53a-58, 53a-61, 53a-61a, 53a-62, 53a-63, 53a-96, 53a-175, 53a-176, 53a-178 or 53a-181d, or equivalent conviction in another jurisdiction, within the past seven years, (3) convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude, (4) discharged from military service under conditions that demonstrate questionable moral character, or (5) decertified as a police officer or otherwise had his or her certification canceled, revoked or refused renewal pursuant to subsection (c) of section 7-294d or under the laws of any other jurisdiction.
(d) Any applicant for a security service or security officer license who has been denied such license may appeal in writing to the commissioner within thirty days.