Qualifications of Applicants

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Professions, Businesses and Trades
4. Private Protective Services Licensing and Regulatory Act
5. Qualifications of Applicants

Each individual applicant or, if the applicant is a partnership, each partner or, if the applicant is a corporation, the qualifying agent, must:

1. Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age;
2. Be a citizen of the United States or a resident alien;
3. Not have been declared by any court of competent jurisdiction incompetent by reason of mental defect or disease unless a court of competent jurisdiction has since declared the applicant competent;
4. Not be suffering from habitual drunkenness or narcotics addiction or dependence;
5. Be of good moral character; and
6. 1. Possess at least three (3) years of experience as a manager, supervisor or administrator with a contract security company or proprietary security organization;
   2. Possess at least three (3) years of experience satisfactory to the commissioner with any federal, United States military, state, county or municipal law enforcement agency; or
   3. Pass an examination to be administered at least twice annually by the commissioner, designed to measure knowledge and competence in the contract security company business.

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