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The city manager shall consider all licenses applied for under this chapter and approve or disapprove the same; provided, that upon refusal of the city manager to approve such application, the applicant may within 10 days thereafter appeal to the city council, which shall within 30 days thereafter accord to such applicant a hearing as to whether or not a license to engage in the business of a private detective or to conduct a private detective agency shall be granted. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)
With regard to all applicants for a license to engage in the business of a private detective or to conduct a private detective agency, the police department shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
(a) To investigate qualifications for fitness of all applicants.
(b) To investigate and aid in the prosecution of all violations of this chapter and cooperate in the prosecution of offenders before any court having jurisdiction to hear the same.
(c) To fingerprint all applicants. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)
Before any license to engage in the business of a private detective or to conduct a private detective agency shall be issued as provided in this chapter, the applicant shall furnish to the city a good and sufficient surety bond or insurance policy, the same to be approved by the city manager. A bond shall be signed by some good solvent bonding company authorized to do business in this state and an insurance policy shall be executed by some good solvent insurance company authorized to do business in this state. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)
The surety bond or insurance policy required by Section 38-12 shall be in the sum of $10,000 and shall be conditioned that the obligor therein will pay to the extent of the face amount of such surety bond or insurance policy all judgments which may be recovered against such detective or detective agency by reason of the wrongful or illegal acts of its servants, officers, agents or employees committed by them in the course of their employment. Such surety bond or insurance policy shall further be conditioned that such person so injured shall have the right to sue directly upon the surety bond or insurance policy in his own name, and the same shall be subject to successive suits for recovery until a complete exhaustion of the face amount thereof. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)
The surety bond or insurance policy required by Section 38-12 shall be in effect for the period of time covered by the license for which such bond or policy is given and shall expire at the expiration of the license for which such bond or policy was given. Each such detective or detective agency shall, on or before the date of the expiration of the terms of any surety bond or insurance policy so filed by such agency, file a renewal thereof or a new surety bond or insurance policy containing the same terms or obligations of the preceding surety bond or policy and shall each year thereafter or before the expiration date of the existing surety bond or insurance policy file such renewal surety bond or insurance policy so as to provide continuous security to persons so injured. In the event any such detective or detective agency fails to execute any surety bond or insurance policy in the first instance or to execute any renewal surety bond or insurance policy or to file the same with the city manager as provided in this article, it shall constitute grounds for revoking the license issued under the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. Nos. 4039; 4311)
Immediately upon the receipt of the license certificate issued by the city, the licensee named therein shall cause such license certificate to be posted up and at all times displayed in a conspicuous place in the bureau, agency, subagency, office or branch office for which it is issued so that all persons visiting such place may readily see the same. Such license certificate shall at all reasonable times be subject to inspection by the chief of police or an authorized representative of the police department. No person holding such license certificate shall post such certificate or permit such certificate to be posted upon premises other than those described therein or to which it has been transferred pursuant to the provisions of this article or knowingly alter, deface or destroy any such license certificate. Every license certificate shall be surrendered to the chief of police within 72 hours after its terms shall have expired or after notice in writing to the holder that such license has been revoked. Failure to comply with any provisions of this section is a misdemeanor and sufficient cause for the revocation of a license. (Ord. 4039)
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