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17-19-203. Character references.
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17-19-203. Character references.
Each applicant for a professional bail bondsman license shall:
(1) File with the Professional Bail Bond Company and Professional Bail Bondsman Licensing Board written statements from at least three (3) persons who know his or her character;
(2)(A) Be required to apply to the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police for a state and nationwide criminal records check to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(B) The criminal records check shall conform to the applicable federal standards and shall include the taking of fingerprints.
(C) The applicant shall sign a release of information to the board and shall be responsible to the Division of Arkansas State Police for the payment of any fee associated with the criminal records check.
(D) Upon completion of the criminal records check, the Identification Bureau shall forward all information obtained concerning the applicant to the board.
(E) At the conclusion of the criminal background check required by this subdivision (2), the Identification Bureau shall promptly destroy the fingerprint card of the applicant; and
(3) Provide other proof as the board may require that he or she is competent, trustworthy, financially responsible, and of good personal and business reputation and has not been convicted of a felony listed under § 17-3-102.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-19-203
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17-19-203. Character references.
Each applicant for a professional bail bondsman license shall:
(1) File with the Professional Bail Bond Company and Professional Bail Bondsman Licensing Board written statements from at least three (3) persons who know his or her character;
(2)(A) Be required to apply to the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police for a state and nationwide criminal records check to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(B) The criminal records check shall conform to the applicable federal standards and shall include the taking of fingerprints.
(C) The applicant shall sign a release of information to the board and shall be responsible to the Division of Arkansas State Police for the payment of any fee associated with the criminal records check.
(D) Upon completion of the criminal records check, the Identification Bureau shall forward all information obtained concerning the applicant to the board.
(E) At the conclusion of the criminal background check required by this subdivision (2), the Identification Bureau shall promptly destroy the fingerprint card of the applicant; and
(3) Provide other proof as the board may require that he or she is competent, trustworthy, financially responsible, and of good personal and business reputation and has not been convicted of a felony listed under § 17-3-102.
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17-3-102. Licensing restrictions based on criminal records.
(a) An individual is not eligible to receive or hold a license issued by a licensing entity if that individual has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of any of the following offenses by any court in the State of Arkansas or of any similar offense by a court in another state or of any similar offense by a federal court, unless the conviction was lawfully sealed under the Comprehensive Criminal Record Sealing Act of 2013, § 16-90-1401 et seq., or otherwise previously sealed, pardoned or expunged under prior law:
(1) Capital murder as prohibited in § 5-10-101;
(2) Murder in the first degree and second degree as prohibited in §§ 5-10-102 and 5-10-103;
(3) Manslaughter as prohibited in § 5-10-104;
(4) Negligent homicide as prohibited in § 5-10-105;
(5) Kidnapping as prohibited in § 5-11-102;
(6) False imprisonment in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-11-103;
(7) Permanent detention or restraint as prohibited in § 5-11-106;
(8) Robbery as prohibited in § 5-12-102;
(9) Aggravated robbery as prohibited in § 5-12-103;
(10) Battery in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-13-201;
(11) Aggravated assault as prohibited in § 5-13-204;
(12) Introduction of a controlled substance into the body of another person as prohibited in § 5-13-210;
(13) Aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or an employee of a correctional facility as prohibited in § 5-13-211, if a Class Y felony;
(14) Terroristic threatening in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-13-301;
(15) Rape as prohibited in § 5-14-103;
(16) Sexual indecency with a child as prohibited in § 5-14-110;
(17) Sexual extortion as prohibited in § 5-14-113;
(18) Sexual assault in the first degree, second deg
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-3-102
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-3-102. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.