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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5190

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions (originally sponsored by Senators Winsley and Costa)

READ FIRST TIME 02/12/01. 

_1      AN ACT Relating to private investigator licenses; amending RCW

_2  18.165.080; and providing an effective date.

_3  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_4      Sec. 1.  RCW 18.165.080 and 1995 c 277 s 26 are each amended to

_5  read as follows:

_6      (1) The director shall issue a private investigator license

_7  card to each licensed private investigator and an armed private

_8  investigator license card to each armed private

_9  investigator.  License cards must include picture identification.

10      (a) The license card may not be used as security clearance.

11      (b) A private investigator shall carry the license card

12  whenever he or she is performing the duties of a private

13  investigator and shall exhibit the card upon request.

14      (c) An armed private investigator shall carry the license card

15  whenever he or she is performing the duties of an armed private

16  investigator and shall exhibit the card upon request.

17      (2) The director shall issue a license certificate to each

18  licensed private investigator agency.

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_1      (a) Within seventy-two hours after receipt of the license

_2  certificate, the licensee shall post and display the certificate

_3  in a conspicuous place in the principal office of the licensee

_4  within the state.

_5      (b) It is unlawful for any person holding a license certificate

_6  to knowingly and willfully post the license certificate upon

_7  premises other than those described in the license certificate or

_8  to materially alter a license certificate.

_9      (c) Every advertisement by a licensee that solicits or

10  advertises business shall contain the name of the licensee, the

11  address of record, and the license number as they appear in the

12  records of the director.

13      (d) The licensee shall notify the director within thirty days

14  of any change in the licensee's officers or directors or any

15  material change in the information furnished or required to be

16  furnished to the director.

17      NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act takes effect July 1, 2002.

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