Iowa Code
Chapter 80A - PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE AGENCIES AND SECURITY AGENTS
Section 80A.7 - Identification cards.

80A.7 Identification cards.
1. The department shall issue to each licensee and to each employee of the licensee an identification card in a form approved by the commissioner. The application for a permanent identification card shall include a temporary identification card valid for fourteen days from the date of receipt of the application by the applicant.
2. The fee for each application for an identification card is ten dollars.
3. It is unlawful for an agency licensed under this chapter to employ a person to act in the bail enforcement business, private investigation business, or private security business unless the person has in the person’s immediate possession an identification card issued under this section.
4. The licensee is responsible for the use of identification cards by the licensee’s employees and shall return an employee’s card to the department upon termination of the employee’s service. Identification cards remain the property of the department.
5. An application for an identification card shall include the submission of fingerprints of the person seeking the identification card, which fingerprints may be submitted to the federal bureau of investigation through the state criminal history repository for the purpose of a national criminal history check. Fees associated with the processing of fingerprints shall be assessed to the employing licensee.
84 Acts, ch 1235, §7; 85 Acts, ch 56, §2; 89 Acts, ch 112, §1; 98 Acts, ch 1149, §6; 2002 Acts, ch 1044, §3, 4, 11; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §26