Conn. Gen. Stat. § 29-155 (2026)

(a) Application for a license as a private detective or as a private detective agency shall be made in writing, under oath, on a form to be furnished by the commissioner. The application shall state the applicant's full name, age, date and place of birth, residences and employment within the past five years and the applicant's present occupation with the names and addresses of employers, the date and place of conviction of any crime and such additional information as the commissioner requires to investigate the qualification, character, competency and integrity of the applicant. If the applicant is an association, corporation or partnership, similar information shall be required of each individual composing or intending to compose such association, corporation or partnership.

(b) The commissioner shall require any applicant for a license under this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks. Each applicant and, in the case of an association, corporation or partnership, each individual composing such association, corporation or partnership, shall submit with the application two complete sets of fingerprints on forms specified and furnished by the commissioner and two photographs, two inches wide by three inches high, taken within six months prior to the application. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.

(c) The application shall state the trade name or proposed trade name to be used by the applicant and the location of the principal place of business and the location of each office and branch office. If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall give the name of the corporation, if different from the proposed trade name, and the date and place of incorporation. Any trade name or proposed trade name shall require the approval of the commissioner. No trade name or designation shall be used which implies any association with any municipal, county or state government or the federal government, or any agency thereof. No licensee shall use any advertisement, seal or card, or any other media which may tend to mislead the public.

(d) The application shall contain such additional information and documentation as the commissioner may require by regulation.

(1949 Rev., S. 3739; 1969, P.A. 756, S. 2; P.A. 01-175, S. 26, 32; P.A. 04-192, S. 5.)

History: 1969 act expanded license application requirements, adding Subsecs. (b) to (d) and rephrasing Subsec. (a); P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (b) by adding language re criminal history records checks in accordance with Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-192 amended Subsec. (a) to replace reference to investigator and watchman, guard or patrol service with reference to private detective agency and make a technical change.

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