Section 106-F:4 Definitions. - New Hampshire Statutes

In this chapter:
   I-a. ""Applicant'' means any person who makes application to engage in any activity regulated under this chapter.
   I-b. ""Private detective'' means a person engaged in conducting investigations involving, but not limited to:
      (a) Unsolved crimes.
      (b) Insurance.
      (c) Clandestine surveillance.
      (d) Missing persons.
      (e) Lost, concealed, or stolen property.
      (f) Escaped felons or wanted persons subject to reward for capture.
   II. ""Private detective agency'' means the business of collecting for a fee, hire or reward information on the identity, conduct, movements, whereabouts, affiliations, transactions, reputation or character of any person, or otherwise doing investigative work for a private rather than a public interest.
   III. ""Security guard service'' means any business entity, except as provided in RSA 106-F:2, that furnishes or employs persons for the protection of individuals or their property from injury or theft and includes, but is not limited to, services providing for the safe transport of money or valuable documents and security patrols of homes, businesses or industrial plants.
   IV. ""Employee'' means an individual employed by a private detective agency or an individual employed by a security guard service performing the duties of a private detective or a security guard for the said private detective agency or security guard service.
   V. ""Licensee'' means a licensed private detective agency or security guard service.
   VI. ""License holder'' means an employee of a licensee.
   VII. ""Individual'' means an individual licensed as a private detective or security guard who is not an employee and who has no employees.

Source. 1977, 582:1. 1981, 389:2, 3. 1990, 146:3. 1991, 308:33, eff. June 24, 1991.