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title: Title 43, Chapter 38. Operators of Private Detective Businesses and Private Security Businesses
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canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/43/chapter/38
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date: 2025
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heading: OPERATORS OF PRIVATE DETECTIVE BUSINESSES AND PRIVATE SECURITY BUSINESSES
title_heading: PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES
section_count: 20
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# Title 43, Chapter 38. Operators of Private Detective Businesses and Private Security Businesses

Title 43. Professions and Businesses

20 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 43-38-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-1.md
- 43-38-2, Declaration of purpose, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-2.md
- 43-38-3, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-3.md
- 43-38-4, Creation of board; members; secretary; records; general powers and duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-4.md
- 43-38-5, Licensure and registration of persons practicing for one year on July 1, 1981, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-5.md
- 43-38-6, Licenses; qualifications; criminal records; fingerprints; bond, insurance, or net worth affidavit; display of license; suspension; temporary permits; license recognition agreements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-6.md
- 43-38-7, Licensing of armed employees; qualifications; continuing education; fingerprints; license card; suspension, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-7.md
- 43-38-7.1, Registration records of unarmed security employees; fingerprint identification of prospective registrants, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-7.1.md
- 43-38-8, Temporary employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-8.md
- 43-38-9, Disposition of applicants’ fingerprints, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-9.md
- 43-38-10, Permits to carry firearms; proficiency requirement; exemption from specified laws; denial, refusal to renew, and suspension of permits; effect of license suspension and restoration, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-10.md
- 43-38-10.1, Training instructors and training programs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-10.1.md
- 43-38-11, Denial, revocation, or sanction of licenses and registrations; action by board; judicial review, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-11.md
- 43-38-11.1, Suspension of license, registration, or weapons permit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-11.1.md
- 43-38-12, Applicability of the ‘‘Georgia Administrative Procedure Act.’’, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-12.md
- 43-38-13, Arrest powers of licensees and registrants, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-13.md
- 43-38-14, Exceptions to operation of chapter; local regulation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-14.md
- 43-38-14.1, Restrictions on local business licenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-14.1.md
- 43-38-15, Applicability of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-15.md
- 43-38-16, Penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-38-16.md