Section 20-390. Application; fingerprinting

1. An application for a license
  or renewal  thereof  shall  be  made  to  the  commissioner  on  a  form
  prescribed by him or her.
    2. A separate license shall be required for each place of business.
    3.  The  application  shall  be  filed  only  by the actual owner of a
  business, shall be in writing, signed and under oath; it  shall  contain
  the  office  address  of the business; the name and residence address of
  the owner or partner and if a corporation, trade group  or  association,
  the  names  and  resident  addresses  of  the  directors  and  principal
  officers.
    4. The commissioner may require the names and residence  addresses  of
  any  employees  of  an  applicant,  in addition to any other information
  which he or she may deem advisable.
    5. Each applicant shall be over eighteen years  of  age  and  of  good
  character.
    6.  The commissioner shall require that applicants for licenses issued
  pursuant to this subchapter be fingerprinted for the purpose of securing
  criminal history records from the state  division  of  criminal  justice
  services.  The  applicant  shall pay a processing fee as required by the
  state division of criminal justice services. Fingerprints shall be taken
  of the individual owner if the applicant is a sole  proprietorship;  the
  general  partners  if  the applicant is a partnership; and the officers,
  principals, directors, and stockholders owning more than ten percent  of
  the  outstanding  stock  of  the  corporation  if  the  applicant  is  a
  corporation. Any person required to  be  fingerprinted  hereunder  shall
  furnish  to  the  department three current passport-sized photographs of
  such person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the  commissioner  need  not
  require  applicants  for  licenses  required under this subchapter to be
  fingerprinted if criminal history records concerning such applicants are
  not available from the state division of criminal justice services.
    7. Each application for a license to solicit, canvass,  sell,  perform
  or  obtain a home improvement contract as a contractor from an owner, or
  for renewal thereof, filed on or after the effective date of  the  local
  law   which  added  this  subdivision  shall  contain  such  information
  prescribed by the commissioner as sufficient to verify  the  applicant's
  compliance  with  the  requirements  specified  in  subdivision  four of
  section seventy-one-a of the lien law.