§ 8.24.090. Agent identification cards required.

A.

Every alarm agent employed by an alarm business within this city shall be required to obtain an identification card from the police chief subject, however, to subsection E of this section. The owners, managers, corporate officers and partners of all alarm businesses are also required to obtain identification cards from the police chief if they directly engage in selling, installing, servicing, maintaining or responding to alarm systems within the city. Any person who is not an alarm agent who, as an employee of a licensed alarm business, has access to confidential information of an alarm user or to monitoring radio equipment must also obtain an identification card. Within thirty days of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, alarm agents, and, if required by this subsection, owners, managers, corporate officers and partners, shall submit applications to the police chief for identification cards. The application for the identification card shall be in a form prescribed by the police chief and shall include the following:

1.

The applicant's full name and any aliases or other names previously used, residence and business addresses and telephone numbers;

2.

The applicant's date and place of birth;

3.

A list of all felony and misdemeanor convictions of the applicant;

4.

One classifiable set of fingerprints;

5.

Two recent photographs of the applicant of a type prescribed by the police chief;

6.

The name and address of the alarm business where the applicant is or will be employed;

7.

The applicant's employment record for the prior three years;

8.

A statement that the applicant will inform the police chief of any change in the required information or the termination of the applicant's employment by the alarm business within ten days of such change;

9.

Any other information which the police chief may deem necessary to determine whether the applicant for an identification card meets the requirements of this chapter.

B.

Prior to employing an alarm agent, an alarm business shall require the names of at least two references and the names and addresses of employers for the past three years of such person and shall make reasonable and prudent inquiries to determine whether the person applying for employment meets the requirements of this section. Within ten days of the commencement of employment with an alarm business, any new alarm agent must submit an application to the police chief for a permanent identification card under this section.

C.

The permanent identification card required by this section shall be carried by a person required to obtain an identification card whenever such person is engaged in the business of the licensee and shall be exhibited at the demand of any lawful authority.

D.

Application for an identification card must be accompanied by a ten-dollar fee to cover costs of processing the application and investigating the applicant.

E.

An alarm agent shall not be required to obtain an identification card from the police chief if he already has obtained an identification card from the city or chief of police of another city, county or local governmental subdivision within the state or within the same standard metropolitan statistical area in which this city is located if such governmental subdivision requires its alarm agents to meet the same general qualifications of this section and requires an alarm agent to obtain and carry an identification card in the same general form as required by Section 8.24.080; provided, however, that such city, county or local governmental subdivision shall recognize and accept identification cards of alarm agents who hold valid identification cards issued by this city.

(Prior code § 2A-9)