PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3383 PRINTER'S NO. 3526
No. 2524 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY MILLER, McMONAGLE, CESSAR, TRELLO, PETRONE,
PISTELLA, CALTAGIRONE, WARGO, HORGOS, MICHLOVIC, DAWIDA,
DUFFY, GAMBLE, FEE, GRABOWSKI, MURPHY, ITKIN, SEVENTY, OLASZ,
LETTERMAN, GEORGE, GRUITZA, A. K. HUTCHINSON, MISCEVICH,
OLIVER, McVERRY, CIVERA, FREIND, BELARDI, STEVENS, SPITZ,
R. C. WRIGHT, DURHAM, ARMSTRONG, TELEK, COCHRAN, WENGER,
JACKSON, POTT, RASCO, FRAZIER, MARMION AND GRUPPO, JUNE 1,
1982
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, SEPTEMBER 13, 1982
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273, No.361), entitled
2 "An act to regulate the business of private detectives,
3 investigators and watch, guard, or patrol agencies, and the
4 licensing thereof in each county; providing penalties,"
5 further excluding certain persons from the provisions of the
6 act.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 15, act of August 21, 1953 (P.L.1273,
10 No.361), known as "The Private Detective Act of 1953," is
11 amended to read:
12 Section 15. Application of Act.--Nothing in this act shall
13 apply to any detective officer or man belonging to the
14 Pennsylvania State Police, or to the police force of any county,
15 city, borough, township, or incorporated town, or any employe of
16 such State Police, or such police force, appointed or elected by
1 due authority of law, while engaged in the performance of their
2 official duties or, IF THE BONDING REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 6 ARE <--
3 FULFILLED, while in engaged off-duty in the performance of <--
4 duties as set forth in clause 11 of subsection (b) of section 2,
5 nor to any person, partnership, association, or corporation, or
6 any bureau or agency, whose business is exclusively the
7 furnishing of information as to the business and financial
8 standing and credit responsibility of persons, partnerships,
9 associations, or corporations, or as to the personal habits and
10 financial responsibility of applicants for insurance, indemnity
11 bonds, or commercial credit, or of claimants under insurance
12 policies, and whose business does not embrace other activities
13 described in section 2 of this act, nor to any corporation duly
14 authorized by the Commonwealth to operate a fire alarm
15 protection business, nor to any person while engaged in the
16 business of adjuster for an insurance company, nor to any person
17 regularly employed as special agent, detective or investigator
18 exclusively by one employer in connection with the affairs of
19 that employer only, nor to any charitable or philanthropic
20 society or association duly incorporated under the laws of the
21 Commonwealth and which is organized and maintained for the
22 public good and not for private profit, nor shall anything in
23 this act contained be construed to affect in any way attorneys
24 or counselors at law in the regular practice of their
25 profession, but such exemption shall not enure to the benefit of
26 any employe or representative of such attorney or counselor at
27 law who is not employed solely, exclusively and regularly by
28 such attorney or counselor at law, nor to persons in the
29 exclusive employment of common carriers subject to regulation by
30 the interstate commerce commission or the Public Utility
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1 Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, nor to
2 investigators in the employment of credit bureaus. [No] Except
3 for the duties set forth in clause (11) of subsection (b) of
4 section 2 which may be performed by any detective officer or a
5 member of the Pennsylvania State Police or to the police force <--
6 of any county, city, borough, township or incorporated town, or
7 any employe of such State Police or such police force appointed
8 or elected by due authority of law, no person, partnership,
9 association, corporation, or any bureau or agency, exempted
10 hereunder from the application of this act, shall perform any
11 manner of detective service as described in section 2 hereof for
12 any other person, partnership, association, corporation, bureau
13 or agency, whether for fee, hire, reward, other compensation,
14 remuneration, or consideration, or as an accommodation without
15 fee, reward, or remuneration, or by a reciprocal arrangement
16 whereby such services are exchanged on request of parties
17 thereto. The commission of a single act prohibited by this act
18 shall constitute a violation thereof.
19 Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect or prohibit
20 the right of any person to form, or become affiliated with, or
21 to continue as a member of, any union, association, society, or
22 organization of his own choosing.
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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