2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 534 - Private Detectives and Security Services
Section 29-161l - Applicant to post surety bond and provide general liability insurance certificate.
(a) Each applicant for a license as a security service shall post with the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection a bond in favor of the state with surety in the amount of ten thousand dollars. No bond shall be accepted for filing unless it is with a surety company authorized to do business in this state and conditioned that the principal named therein shall not do any act meriting suspension or revocation of such principal's license under the provisions of sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive. Any person aggrieved by an act of the principal named in such bond in violation of the provisions of this chapter may proceed on such bond against the principal or surety therein, or both, to recover damages.
(b) Prior to being issued a license, an applicant shall provide a copy of a certificate of general liability insurance for not less than three hundred thousand dollars. The licensee shall notify the commissioner, in writing, within thirty days of a change of status in the liability insurance or surety bond required by this section.
(P.A. 04-192, S. 27; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.
