- (a) An applicant for a distributor license or a manufacturer license shall file a written, verified application with the Department of Finance and Administration on a form prescribed by the department.
(b) The license application shall include:
- (1) The name, address, and federal employer identification number;
- (2) The names and positions of the applicant’s officers;
- (3) The name and address of the person or persons who are responsible for the applicant’s sales of bingo equipment; and
- (4) A statement that the applicant has complied with all requirements for eligibility for the license.
- (c) The person or persons who are responsible for the applicant’s sales of bingo equipment shall not have been found guilty of, or pleaded guilty or no contest to, any felony by any court in the State of Arkansas or to any similar offense by a court in another state or a military or federal court.
(d)
- (1) The department may require, at the department’s discretion, that the applicant’s officers or other personnel be fingerprinted and the fingerprints forwarded for a criminal background check through the Division of Arkansas State Police.
- (2) After completion of the criminal background check, the fingerprints shall be forwarded by the division to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history record check.
- (3) The person or persons responsible for an applicant’s sales of bingo equipment shall sign a release that allows the division to release an Arkansas non-criminal justice background check to the department and a fingerprint card of the applicant’s officer or other personnel to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of performing a federal fingerprint-based background check.