(a) The license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be for a period of one year and shall be in such form as may be determined by the Commissioner, but shall at least specify the name under which the applicant is to operate, the address of the principal place of business, the date on which it will expire, the full name and titles of the persons who submitted application forms and the number of the license.
(b) The license shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous place in the principal place of business of the licensee in the Virgin Islands.
(c)
(1) The Commissioner shall upon application and payment of fee issue a separate license for each branch office mentioned in the application. Said license shall be in a form designed by the Commissioner but it shall at least specify the name under which the licensee operates, its license number and the address of the location to which the license applies. Each branch office must be under the supervision of a licensed owner, partner, corporate officer or other person licensed to perform the services offered by the agency.
(2) No license shall be valid to protect any business transacted at any place other than that designated in the license unless consent is first obtained from the Commissioner and until written consent of the surety or sureties on the bond required to be filed by section 1309 of this chapter to such transfer be filed with the original bond and the change of location of licensee provisions of section 1314 of this chapter be complied with. Such license shall not be valid to protect any licensee who engages in the business under any name other than that specified in said license. A license issued under this chapter shall not be assignable and no licensee shall conduct a business under a fictitious name unless and until it has obtained the written authorization of the Commissioner to do so. The Commissioner shall not authorize the use of a fictitious name which is so similar to that of a public officer or agency, or of that used by another licensee, that the public may be confused or misled thereby. The authorization for the use of such name the filing of a certificate of doing business under a fictitious name under chapter 21 of Title 11 of this code. No licensee shall be permitted to conduct business under more than one name except as licensed. A licensee desiring to change its licensed name at any time except upon renewal of license shall notify the Commissioner and pay a fee of $10 for each authorized change of name; and upon returning the license to the Commissioner with a certificate from his surety on the bond provided for in section 1309 of this chapter, to the effect that said bond covers the licensee's new name, the newly authorized name shall then be entered upon the license and same returned to the licensee.
(d) It shall be the duty of every licensee to furnish all of its partners and officers, as the case may be, and all employees who are private investigators or watchmen, guards and patrolmen, and to furnish himself in the case of a private detective or watchman, guard or patrolman contractor, an identification card. Such card shall be in a form and design as may be approved by the Commissioner, but shall specify at least the name of the holder of the card, the name and number of the licensee, and be signed by a representative of the licensee and by the holder of the card.