Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1620 – Criminal background checks of applicants and employees
An applicant for licensure as an adult entertainment establishment or adult-oriented retail establishment and all persons employed by the adult entertainment establishment or adult-oriented retail establishment shall submit, at the applicant’s expense, fingerprints and other necessary information in order to obtain the following:
(1) A report of the individual’s entire criminal history record from the State Bureau of Identification or a statement from the State Bureau of Identification that the State Central Repository contains no such information relating to that person.
(2) A report of the individual’s entire federal criminal history record pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation appropriation of Title II of Public Law 92-544 (28 U.S.C. § 534). The State Bureau of Identification shall be the intermediary for purposes of this section and the Commission on Adult Entertainment Establishments shall be the screening point for the receipt of said federal criminal history records.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1620
- Adult: shall mean a person who has attained the age of 18. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Adult entertainment establishment: shall mean any commercial establishment, business or service, or portion thereof, which offers sexually-oriented material, devices, paraphernalia or specific sexual activities, services, performances or any combination thereof, or in any other form, whether printed, filmed, recorded or live. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Adult-oriented retail establishment: shall mean any commercial establishment, business or service, or portion thereof, which offers as a substantial portion of their business sexually-oriented material, devices, or paraphernalia, but does not allow on-site displays of sexually-oriented materials or sexual activities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Applicant: shall mean the person in whose name or on whose behalf a license under this chapter is requested. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Commission: shall mean the Commission on Adult Entertainment Establishments. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Person: means a human being who has been born and is alive, and, where appropriate, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a government or a governmental instrumentality. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302