Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. A
licensed agency with its principal place of business in the state of Louisiana
and a previously unlicensed individual domiciled and residing in the state of
Louisiana may apply for the licensing of the previously unlicensed individual
as an apprentice as follows.
1. A letter of
intent to sponsor shall be sent to the board by the licensed agency, along with
the apprentice application, indicating the agency's intent to accept the
sponsorship and responsibility for the apprentice applicant.
2. Upon receipt of a letter of intent to
sponsor and the completed application from the apprentice candidate, the
chairman of the board shall issue a letter acknowledging the receipt of same,
provided the apprentice license applicant satisfies the requirements of
R.S.
37:3507 and all fees required by law have
been paid. The letter shall serve as a temporary apprentice registration card
until the board meets to consider the application and the issuance of the
official apprentice registration card.
3. No agency may sponsor any more than six
apprentice investigators at any one time. No person shall be licensed as an
apprentice if he has ever been licensed as an apprentice before.
B. An apprentice license shall be
effective for one year only; and the apprentice shall operate as a private
investigator only under the immediate direction, control and supervision of the
sponsoring agency during that time.
C.
1. The
sponsoring agency shall be directly responsible for the supervising and
training of the apprentice.
2. In
addition, the sponsoring agency shall be responsible for educating the
apprentice in the following areas:
a.
knowledge of the private investigator business and the laws regulating same,
including R.S. 37:3500 et seq., and the rules and regulations regulating the
practice as a private investigator in this state;
b. general federal and state constitutional
principles;
c. general information
regarding invasion of privacy laws, search and seizure laws and related
procedures, and state concealed weapons' law;
d. surveillance techniques;
e. photograph principles: video and still;
and
f. general information
regarding the assembling of public information from clerk of court offices and
court records.
D.
1. The
apprentice registration card shall remain valid for only one year from the date
of the letter serving as the temporary registration card or issuance of the
official apprentice registration card, whichever is first. Only so long as the
apprentice is working under the supervision of a licensed sponsor
agency.
2. During the
apprenticeship period, the apprentice must attend the 40-hour training course
approved by the board.
3. An
apprentice license may be transferred to another agency provided the other
agency meets all the requirements of law and
§512 of the rules and regulations,
particularly the filing of the letters of intent, regarding
sponsorship.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
37:3505(A)(3) and (B)(1);
and R.S.
37:3514(A)(4)(a).
