License application - Evidence of qualifications for

business supervisor - Required criminal history, photograph and

fingerprints – Definitions.

A. Any person applying for a license to engage in a fire

extinguisher industry business pursuant to the Fire Extinguisher

Licensing Act shall provide evidence to the Fire Extinguisher

Industry Committee that the individual within this state having

direct supervision over the function and local operations of the

fire extinguisher industry business or a branch thereof has the

following qualifications:

1. The individual is at least twenty-one (21) years of age;

2. The individual has not been declared by any court of

competent jurisdiction incompetent by reason of mental defect or

disease;

3. The individual is not a habitual user of intoxicating

liquors or habit-forming drugs;

4. The individual has not been discharged from the Armed

Services of the United States under other than honorable conditions;

and

5. The individual meets such other standards as may be

established by the State Fire Marshal Commission relating to

experience or knowledge of the fire extinguisher industry.

B. The applicant shall advise the Committee and furnish full

information on each individual described in subsection A of this

section of any conviction of a felony crime which substantially

relates to the occupation of an individual in a fire extinguisher

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industry business and poses a reasonable threat to public safety for

which a full pardon has not been granted. The applicant shall

furnish a recent photograph of a type prescribed by the Committee

and two classifiable sets of fingerprints of such individual.

C. As used in this section:

1. "Substantially relates" means the nature of criminal conduct

for which the person was convicted has a direct bearing on the

fitness or ability to perform one or more of the duties or

responsibilities necessarily related to the occupation; and

2. "Poses a reasonable threat" means the nature of criminal

conduct for which the person was convicted involved an act or threat

of harm against another and has a bearing on the fitness or ability

to serve the public or work with others in the occupation.