Okla. Stat. tit. 59 § 1800.7

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 1800.7 - Qualifications of applicants - Information concerning felonies or crimes involving moral turpitude - Photographs - Fingerprints - Definitions

A. Any person applying for a license to engage in an alarm or locksmith industry business pursuant to the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Act shall provide evidence to the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Committee that the individual within this state having direct supervision over the function and local operations of such alarm, locksmith or fire sprinkler industry business or a branch thereof has the following qualifications:

1. Is at least eighteen (18) years of age;

2. Has not been declared by any court of competent jurisdiction incompetent by reason of mental defect or disease, and has not been restored to competency;

3. Is not a habitual user of intoxicating liquors or a user of any illegal or illicit drug or controlled substance, including, but not limited to, the non-medical use of any prescription drug or other intoxicating substance;

4. Has not been discharged from the Armed Services of the United States under dishonorable conditions; and

5. Meets such other standards as may be established by the Commissioner of Labor relating to experience or knowledge of the alarm, locksmith or fire sprinkler 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 an alarm or locksmith industry business and poses a reasonable threat to public safety for which a full pardon has not been granted and furnish a recent photograph of a type prescribed by the Commissioner 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.

Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 1800.7

Amended by Laws 2019 , c. 363, s. 59, eff. 11/1/2019.

Amended by Laws 2019 , c. 218, s. 8, eff. 11/1/2019.

Amended by Laws 2013 , c. 22, s. 3, eff. 7/1/2013.

Laws 1985, HB 1358, c. 217, §7, eff. 11/1/1985; Amended by Laws 2006 , SB 1741, c. 110, §8, eff. 1/1/2007; Amended by Laws 2012 , SB 1866, c. 368, §9, eff. 11/1/2012.