SEC. 38-3. SAME - FINGERPRINTING; MINIMUM AGE.

   No license to engage in the business of a private detective or to conduct a private detective agency shall be issued until the police department has taken the fingerprints of the applicant. No license shall be issued where the applicant is under 23 years of age. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)

SEC. 38-4. SAME - FEE.

   In order to defray a part of the expense necessary to provide the surveillance, supervision and inspection of persons as required under the terms of this chapter, there is hereby fixed a license fee or police tax, which shall be collected from any person engaged in the private detective business or conducting a private detective agency of $50 per annum. If any application is granted during the calendar year, the fee shall be paid pro rata for the balance of the current year. In no event shall there be any refunds of license fees or police taxes paid under this chapter. The fee shall be paid to the assessor and collector of taxes who shall issue a receipt therefor on a form prepared by him for that purpose. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4996)

SEC. 38-5. SAME - EXPIRATION DATE.

   Each license granted and issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire at midnight of the 31st day of December next following the date of issuance of same. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)

SEC. 38-6. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE - INFORMATION REQUIRED.

   Any person intending to conduct a private detective business in the city shall, for each such bureau or agency, file with the chief of police a written application duly signed and verified as follows:

   (a)   If the applicant is a person, the application shall be signed and verified by such person, and if the applicant is a firm or partnership, the application shall be signed and verified by each individual composing or intending to compose such firm or partnership. The application shall state the full name, age, residence, present and previous occupations of each person so signing the same, that he is a citizen of the United States and shall also specify the name of the street and number and the trade name of the business for which the license is desired and such further facts as may be required by the chief of police to show the good character, competency and integrity of each person so signing such application. Each person signing such application shall, together with such application, submit to the chief of police his photograph in duplicate in passport size and fingerprints of his two hands recorded in such manner as may be specified by the chief of police or his authorized representative. Before approving such application it shall be the duty of the chief of police or his authorized representative to compare such fingerprints with those filed with the identification bureau of the police department. Every such applicant shall establish to the satisfaction of the city manager and by at least two duly acknowledged certificates that such applicant, if he be a person or in the case of a firm, company, partnership or corporation, at least one member of such firm, partnership, company or corporation has been regularly employed as a detective or shall have been a member of the United States government investigative service, a sheriff or member of the city police department of a rank or grade higher than that of patrolman for a period of not less than three years.

   Such applications shall be approved as to each person or individual so signing the same by not less than five reputable citizens of this community, each of whom shall certify that he has personally known the person for a period of at least five years prior to the filing of such application, that he has read such application and believes each of the statements made therein to be true, that such person is honest, of good character, competent and not related or connected to the person so certifying by blood or marriage.

   Local branches of detective agencies licensed, chartered or organized outside of the city by authority of a law of their home state where the provisions are substantially the same as those of this chapter, shall be exempted from the provisions of this section; provided, however, that the local manager shall be fingerprinted.

   (b)   If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall be signed and verified by the president, secretary and treasurer thereof and shall specify the name of the corporation, the date and place of its incorporation, the location of its principal place of business and the location of the premises on which it intends to do business in the city. Each and every requirement of this section shall apply to the president, secretary and treasurer and each such officer and his successor shall, prior to entering upon the discharge of his duties, sign and verify a like statement, proved in like manner as is prescribed in this section as in case of person or individual member of a firm or partnership. In the event of the death, resignation or removal of such officer, due notice of that fact shall forthwith be given in writing to the chief of police together with a copy of the minutes of any meeting of directors of such corporation, certified by the secretary indicating the death, resignation or removal of such officer and the election or designation of the successor of each deceased, resigned or removed officer. The local manager or representative of a person whose headquarters is elsewhere than in the city shall comply with the requirements in part (a) of this section. (Ord. 4039)

SEC. 38-7. SAME - INVESTIGATION.

   Upon the filing of an application for a license to engage in the business of a private detective or conduct a private detective agency, properly filled out, the chief of police shall make or cause to be made such investigation as he may deem necessary to determine the fitness of the applicant for a license. Then the chief of police shall within 10 days forward the application with his recommendations to the city manager. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)

SEC. 38-8. SAME - ACTION BY CITY MANAGER; ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.

   The city manager shall have authority to grant a license to engage in the business of a private detective or conduct a private detective agency without further investigation or to cause further investigation to be made before granting such license or disapproving the application. Upon the granting of such license by the city manager, it shall be the duty of the applicant to present the action of the city manager to the assessor and collector of taxes of the city and upon the payment of the proper license fee the assessor and collector of taxes shall accordingly issue the proper license permit on a form to be prescribed by the assessor and collector of taxes. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)

SEC. 38-9. SAME - FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED BY CITY MANAGER.

   In approving or disapproving any license to engage in the business of a private detective or to conduct a private detective agency, the city manager shall consider the following factors:

   (a)   Whether the applicant has been convicted of a felony, or on renewal of license, for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, during the year next preceding the filing of this application.

   (b)   Whether the applicant is of good moral character and his reputation for being a peaceable law abiding citizen.

   (c)   Whether the applicant is a former member of the police department or was formerly employed as a special police officer and was released for cause.

   (d)   Such other lawful matters as he considers pertinent and proper in arriving at a fair and lawful conclusion with respect to such application for a license. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)