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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 493
PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE, PRIVATE SECURITY, AND REPOSSESSION SERVICES
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F.S. 493.6201
493.6201 Classes of licenses.
(1) Any person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation which engages in business as a private investigative agency shall have a Class โ€œAโ€ license. A Class โ€œAโ€ license is valid for only one location.
(2) Each branch office of a Class โ€œAโ€ agency shall have a Class โ€œAAโ€ license. Where a person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation holds both a Class โ€œAโ€ and Class โ€œBโ€ license, each additional or branch office shall have a Class โ€œABโ€ license.
(3) Any individual who performs the services of a manager for a:
(a) Class โ€œAโ€ private investigative agency or Class โ€œAAโ€ branch office shall have a Class โ€œMAโ€ license. A Class โ€œCโ€ or Class โ€œMโ€ licensee may be designated as the manager, in which case the Class โ€œMAโ€ license is not required.
(b) Class โ€œAโ€ and โ€œBโ€ agency or a Class โ€œABโ€ branch office shall have a Class โ€œMโ€ license.
(4) Class โ€œCโ€ or Class โ€œCCโ€ licensees shall own or be an employee of a Class โ€œAโ€ agency, a Class โ€œAโ€ and Class โ€œBโ€ agency, or a branch office. This does not include those who are exempt under s. 493.6102, but who possess a Class โ€œCโ€ license solely for the purpose of holding a Class โ€œGโ€ license.
(5) Any individual who performs the services of a private investigator shall have a Class โ€œCโ€ license.
(6) Any individual who performs private investigative work as an intern under the direction and control of a designated, sponsoring Class โ€œCโ€ licensee or a designated, sponsoring Class โ€œMAโ€ or Class โ€œMโ€ licensee must have a Class โ€œCCโ€ license.
(7) Only Class โ€œM,โ€ Class โ€œMA,โ€ Class โ€œC,โ€ or Class โ€œCCโ€ licensees are permitted to bear a firearm, and any such licensee who bears a firearm shall also have a Class โ€œGโ€ license.
(8) A Class โ€œCโ€ or Class โ€œCCโ€ licensee may perform bodyguard services without obtaining a Class โ€œDโ€ license.
History.ss. 3, 11, ch. 90-364; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 11, ch. 94-172; s. 70, ch. 95-144; s. 8, ch. 97-248.

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