§ 17-40-309 - License -- Classifications. - Arkansas Statutes

17-40-309. License -- Classifications.

(a) No person may engage in any operation outside the scope of the person's license.

(b) For the purpose of defining the scope of licenses, the following license classifications are established:

(1) Class A: Investigations company license, covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(13);

(2) Class B: Security services contractor license, covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(26);

(3) Class C: Covering the operations included within Class A and Class B;

(4) Class D: A single individual operating as an investigations company with no other employees required to be licensed or registered under this chapter;

(5) (A) Class E Level 1: Alarm systems company license, covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(5). Fire alarm license is restricted to structures for which applicable building and life safety codes do not mandate the installation of fire alarm systems, one-family or two-family dwellings classified as "Group R-3" in the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code.

(B) Class E Level 2: Alarm systems company license covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(5). Fire alarm license is restricted to structures for which applicable building and life safety codes do not mandate the installation of fire alarm systems, one-family and two-family dwellings classified as "Group R-3"; "Group R-1", except buildings with three (3) or more stories; "Group R-2", except buildings with three (3) or more stories; "Group A", except those that exceed fifteen thousand square feet (15,000 sq.ft.); "Group B", except "highrise"; "Group E", except those that exceed fifteen thousand square feet (15,000 sq.ft.); "Group F"; "Group M"; and "Group S" in the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code.

(C) Class E Level 3: Alarm systems company license covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(5). Fire alarm license is unrestricted.

(D) Class E-M: Alarm systems company license covering only monitoring as defined in 17-40-102(5).

(E) Class E-S: A single-station alarm systems company license covering operations as defined by 17-40-102(27). Fire alarm license is restricted to one-family and two-family dwellings.

(F) Class F-S: A single-station alarm systems company license covering operations as defined by 17-40-102(27) with no more than five (5) registered employees required to be registered under this chapter. Fire alarm license is restricted to one-family and two-family dwellings;

(6) (A) Class F: An alarm systems company license covering operations as defined in 17-40-102(5) with no more than five (5) employees required to be registered under this chapter. Fire alarm license is restricted to structures for which applicable building and life safety codes do not mandate installation of fire alarm systems and one-family and two-family dwellings classified as "Group R-3" in the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code.

(B) Class F-M: Alarm systems company license covering only monitoring as defined in 17-40-102(5) with no more than five (5) persons required to be registered under this chapter; and

(7) General: Covering the operations included within Class A, Class B, and Class E.

(c) A person licensed only as a security services contractor may not make any investigation except as incidental to the theft, loss, embezzlement, misappropriation, or concealment of any property which the person has been hired or engaged to protect.