AB 525, as introduced, Holden. Private Investigators: fines.
The Private Investigator Act provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs and makes a violation of the licensing requirements a crime. The act authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to impose a civil penalty of no greater than $500 instead of suspending or revoking a license issued under the act for the violation of specified provisions if the director determines that the imposition of the civil penalty better serves the purposes of the act.
This bill would increase that civil penalty to an amount no greater than $1,000 instead of $500.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 7563 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
The director, in lieu of suspending or revoking a license
4issued under this chapter for violations of Sections 7561.1, 7561.3,
5and 7561.4, may impose a civil penalty not to exceedbegin delete five hundredend delete
6begin insert one thousandend insert dollarsbegin delete ($500)end deletebegin insert ($1,000)end insert upon a licensee, if the director
7determines that this action better serves the purposes of this
8chapter.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
10immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
11the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
12immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
13In order to enable the Director of Consumer Affairs to provide
14increased protection to consumers from unscrupulous private
15investigators at the earliest possible time it is necessary that this
16act take effect immediately.
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