329A.015 License required to hold self out as private investigator -- Criminal background check

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329A.015 License required to hold self out as private investigator -- Criminal

background check.

No person or company shall hold himself or herself out to the public as a private

investigator or use any terms, titles, or abbreviations that express, infer, or imply that the

person is licensed as a private investigator unless the person at the time holds a license to

practice private investigating issued and validly existing under the laws of this

Commonwealth as provided in this chapter. All applicants shall pass a criminal

background check based on criteria established under KRS 329A.035.

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