Disqualifiers-All Registration Certificate and Agency License Types

Once you have applied for a registration certificate or agency license, the fee is not refundable. It is important, therefore, that the following disqualifiers do not apply to you.
 

These disqualifiers apply to:

• Security Guard

• Armed Security Guard

• Private Investigator

• Agency Qualifying Party

Agency Resident Manager

• Agency Associate

Disqualifiers

• If you are under 18 years of age and are applying to be a security guard, private investigator, or private investigator associate.

• If you are under 21 years of age and are applying to be a qualifying party, resident manager, or an associate for a security guard agency.

• If you are not a citizen or legal resident who is authorized to seek employment in the United States.

• If you have ever been convicted of a felony, whether or not your conviction was subsequently Set Aside or Vacated and your Civil Rights were restored.

• If you are currently under indictment for a felony

• if within the last 5 years preceding your application, you have been convicted of any misdemeanors, whether or not your conviction was subsequently Set Aside or Vacated, that involves:

• Personal violence

• Misconduct involving a deadly weapon as provided in Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) §13-3102

• Dishonesty or fraud

• Arson

• Theft

• Domestic violence

• Narcotics (ARS §13, Chapter 34, or similar)

• Sexual misconduct

• If you are on parole, community supervision or work furlough, on home arrest, on release on any other basis.

• If you are named in an outstanding arrest warrant.

• If you are on probation pursuant to a conviction for any act of personal violence or domestic violence as in ARS §13-3601 or similar.

• If you have been adjudicated mentally incompetent or found to constitute a danger to self or others, ARS §36-540.

• If you have a disability, which renders you incapable of performing essential functions of the job even with reasonable accommodation from the employer, ARS §41-1461.

• If you have been convicted of acting or attempting to act as a security guard or private investigator without a license if a license was required.

• If you are a registered sex offender.

• Armed Security Guard only:

  • If you have ever been convicted of any misdemeanor or felony involving domestic violence.

  • If you are a Prohibited Possessor as defined in ARS §13-3101 or as described in 18 United States Code section 922.

  • If you were discharged from the armed services of the United States under other than honorable conditions.