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Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDSPart LVII - Private Investigator Examiners
Chapter 5 - Application, Licensing, Training, Registration and Fees
Section LVII-512 - Licensing of Apprentices

La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § LVII-512

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Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
Section LVII-512 - Licensing of Apprentices
A. A licensed agency with its principal place of business in the state of Louisiana and a previously unlicensed individual domiciled and residing in the state of Louisiana may apply for the licensing of the previously unlicensed individual as an apprentice as follows.
1. A letter of intent to sponsor shall be sent to the board by the licensed agency, along with the apprentice application, indicating the agency's intent to accept the sponsorship and responsibility for the apprentice applicant.
2. Upon receipt of a letter of intent to sponsor and the completed application from the apprentice candidate, the chairman of the board shall issue a letter acknowledging the receipt of same, provided the apprentice license applicant satisfies the requirements of R.S. 37:3507 and all fees required by law have been paid. The letter shall serve as a temporary apprentice registration card until the board meets to consider the application and the issuance of the official apprentice registration card.
3. No agency may sponsor any more than six apprentice investigators at any one time. No person shall be licensed as an apprentice if he has ever been licensed as an apprentice before.
B. An apprentice license shall be effective for one year only; and the apprentice shall operate as a private investigator only under the immediate direction, control and supervision of the sponsoring agency during that time.
C.
1. The sponsoring agency shall be directly responsible for the supervising and training of the apprentice.
2. In addition, the sponsoring agency shall be responsible for educating the apprentice in the following areas:
a. knowledge of the private investigator business and the laws regulating same, including R.S. 37:3500 et seq., and the rules and regulations regulating the practice as a private investigator in this state;
b. general federal and state constitutional principles;
c. general information regarding invasion of privacy laws, search and seizure laws and related procedures, and state concealed weapons' law;
d. surveillance techniques;
e. photograph principles: video and still; and
f. general information regarding the assembling of public information from clerk of court offices and court records.
D.
1. The apprentice registration card shall remain valid for only one year from the date of the letter serving as the temporary registration card or issuance of the official apprentice registration card, whichever is first. Only so long as the apprentice is working under the supervision of a licensed sponsor agency.
2. During the apprenticeship period, the apprentice must attend the 40-hour training course approved by the board.
3. An apprentice license may be transferred to another agency provided the other agency meets all the requirements of law and §512 of the rules and regulations, particularly the filing of the letters of intent, regarding sponsorship.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § LVII-512

Promulgated by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Board of Private Investigator Examiners, LR 22:459 (June 1996), amended LR 24:1769 (September 1998), LR 27:1016 (July 2001).
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:3505(A)(3) and (B)(1); and R.S. 37:3514(A)(4)(a).