Section 34-10-1

License required; qualifications of license applicant.

(a) No person shall open, operate or maintain a private employment agency in the State of Alabama without first procuring a license from the Commissioner of the State Department of Revenue of Alabama. Any person who shall open or conduct any such agency without first procuring a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.

(b) Every applicant for a license shall have been a resident of the state of Alabama for at least two years immediately preceding the filing of such application and shall have had at least two years' experience as a placement counsellor. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply, however, to persons or corporations now licensed in Alabama.

(Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 224, p. 304, §1.)