2016 Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 2 - Nonmedical Professions
Chapter 40 - Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies
Subchapter 3 - -- License, Credential, and Commission
§ 17-40-308. License or credential -- Insurance prerequisite

(a) A Class B, Class C, or Class G license shall not be issued to an applicant under this chapter unless the applicant files with the Director of the Department of Arkansas State Police proof of a policy of continuing public liability insurance in a sum not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), conditioned to compensate any person for damages, including, but not limited to, bodily injury caused by wrongful acts of the principal or its servants, officers, agents, and employees in the conduct of any business licensed by this chapter.

(b) A Class B or Class C license shall not be issued to an armored car company unless the applicant files with the director proof of a valid and continuing policy of armored car cargo insurance protecting customers' valuables in a sum not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).

(c) (1) All Class E licensees shall maintain in force at all times while licensed a public liability insurance policy, with minimum limits of liability of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).

(2) All alarm systems businesses that issue Underwriters Laboratories certificates for local mercantile, central station, or police connected alarms shall maintain in force at all times a public liability insurance policy in an amount of at least three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).

(3) Proof of public liability insurance shall be provided to the director at the time of application or renewal or upon request.

(4) This section does not pertain to alarm systems businesses that do not sell, install, or service alarm systems.