RCW 18.165.080
License cards and certificates—Issuance and requirements.
(1) The director shall issue a private investigator license card to each licensed private investigator and an armed private investigator license card to each armed private investigator.
(a) The license card may not be used as security clearance.
(b) A private investigator shall carry the license card whenever he or she is performing the duties of a private investigator and shall exhibit the card upon request.
(c) An armed private investigator shall carry the license card whenever he or she is performing the duties of an armed private investigator and shall exhibit the card upon request.
(2) The director shall issue a license certificate to each licensed private investigator agency.
(a) Within seventy-two hours after receipt of the license certificate, the licensee shall post and display the certificate in a conspicuous place in the principal office of the licensee within the state.
(b) It is unlawful for any person holding a license certificate to knowingly and willfully post the license certificate upon premises other than those described in the license certificate or to materially alter a license certificate.
(c) Every advertisement by a licensee that solicits or advertises business shall contain the name of the licensee, the address of record, and the license number as they appear in the records of the director.
(d) The licensee shall notify the director within thirty days of any change in the licensee's officers or directors or any material change in the information furnished or required to be furnished to the director.
[ 1995 c 277 § 26; 1991 c 328 § 8.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 18.165 - Private Investigators.
18.165.030 - Private investigator license—Requirements.
18.165.040 - Armed private investigator license—Requirements.
18.165.050 - Private investigator agency license—Requirements, restrictions—Assignment or transfer.
18.165.060 - Armed private investigator license authority—Registration of firearms.
18.165.070 - Investigation of applicants.
18.165.080 - License cards and certificates—Issuance and requirements.
18.165.090 - Preassignment training and testing.
18.165.100 - Agency license—Surety bond or certificate of insurance required.
18.165.110 - Regulatory provisions exclusive—Authority of the state and political subdivisions.
18.165.120 - Out-of-state private investigators operating across state lines.
18.165.130 - Required notice of certain occurrences.
18.165.140 - Out-of-state private investigators—Application—Fee—Temporary assignment.
18.165.155 - Transfer of license.
18.165.160 - Unprofessional conduct.
18.165.165 - Display of firearms while soliciting clients.
18.165.170 - Authority of director.
18.165.180 - Complaints—Investigation—Immunity.
18.165.220 - Unprofessional, unlawful conduct or inability to practice—Penalties.
18.165.230 - Enforcement of orders for payment of fines.
18.165.270 - Application of administrative procedure act to acts of the director.
18.165.290 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
18.165.300 - Uniform regulation of business and professions act.