12-1679.   Merchant or security police; fingerprints required; municipallicense or permit prohibited if vehicles not registered in Kansas.(a) As used in this act: (1) "Municipality" shall mean any incorporatedcity or county of this state;

      (2)   "Merchants or security policeman" or "merchants or security policeforce or agency" shall mean any person engaged for hire in the business ofguarding, watching, patrolling or otherwise attempting to provide securityfor the real or personal property of another person; and

      (3)   "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, association, firm,corporation or other business entity.

      (b)   Every municipality which requires a license pursuant to this actshall acquire or collect the fingerprints of anyperson who applies for a merchants or security policeman's license fromsuch municipality. The municipality shall submit the applicant's fingerprintsto the Kansas bureau of investigation and to the federal bureau ofinvestigation for the purpose of determining whether the applicant has acriminal record.

      (c)   No municipality shall license, permit or otherwise authorize orallow any person to do business within such municipality as a merchants orsecurity policeman or as a merchants or security police force or agency,unless every motor vehicle, as defined by K.S.A. 8-1437, and amendmentsthereto, which is usedin any way by such person while doing business as a merchants or securitypoliceman or police force or agency is properly registered.

      History:   L. 1972, ch. 47, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 72, § 1; July 1.