Bill Text: MI SB0163 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Occupations; alarm systems; act requiring registration of security alarm providers; exclude security guard agencies responding to alarms. Amends sec. 2 of 2012 PA 580 (MCL 338.2182). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0161'15, SB 0162'15, SB 0164'15

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0163 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0163-Engrossed.html

SB-0163, As Passed Senate, March 18, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 163

 

 

February 25, 2015, Introduced by Senators BOOHER and JOHNSON and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 2012 PA 580, entitled

 

"Security alarm systems act,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 338.2182).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Alarm system" means any mechanical or electrical device,

 

including an electronic access control system, a video monitoring

 

system, a burglar alarm system, smoke detectors, or any other

 

electronic system that is designed to emit an audible alarm or

 

transmit a signal or message to a central monitoring station if it

 

is activated and that is used to detect an unauthorized entry into

 

a protected premises or alert other persons of the occurrence of a

 

fire or medical emergency or the commission of an unlawful act

 

against a person or in a protected premises. The term includes, but

 

is not limited to, a silent, panic, holdup, robbery, duress,


 

burglary, medical alert, or proprietor alarm that signals a central

 

monitoring station.

 

     (b) "Applicant" means a person for which a registration

 

statement is filed under section 3.

 

     (c) "Background check" means a criminal history check

 

administered by a public or private entity that examines federal

 

and state government records in a manner that allows for the

 

successful identification of the criminal offenses listed in

 

section 4(3)(c).

 

     (d) "Department" means department of licensing and regulatory

 

affairs.

 

     (e) "Local unit of government" means a city, county, village,

 

or township, or a special district designated by law that exercises

 

limited government powers or powers in respect to limited

 

government subjects.

 

     (f) "Operator" means an employee or independent contractor who

 

performs alarm operator, dispatcher, or monitor functions for a

 

security alarm system at a central monitoring station. The term

 

does not include a system user who receives signals or messages

 

about his or her own security alarm system.

 

     (g) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,

 

limited liability company, or other legal entity.

 

     (h) "Protected premises" means a location at or in which a

 

system user's security alarm system is installed and maintained.

 

     (i) "Registrant" means a person that is registered by the

 

department as a system provider.

 

     (j) "Registration" means a registration that is issued by the


 

department.

 

     (k) "Remote monitoring" means the retransmission of

 

information received from a security alarm system to a central

 

monitoring system.

 

     (l) "Security alarm system" means a detection device or an

 

assembly of equipment and devices that transmits signals to a

 

central monitoring station and is arranged to signal the presence

 

of a hazard that requires urgent attention or to which police are

 

expected to respond. The term includes any electronic system that

 

transmits signals to a central monitoring station and monitors or

 

records various components designed to detect or prevent

 

burglaries, intrusions, theft, or robbery of the protected

 

premises, including, but not limited to, an intrusion detection

 

system, video monitoring or recording system, access control

 

system, and 1-way or 2-way audio monitoring systems. The term does

 

not include a fire alarm system or an alarm system that monitors

 

temperature, humidity, or other condition that is not directly

 

related to the detection or prevention of burglaries, intrusions,

 

theft, or robbery of the protected premises.

 

     (m) "System provider" means a person that engages in the

 

business of selling, leasing, renting, maintaining, repairing,

 

installing, or otherwise providing security alarm systems to the

 

public at the protected premises or by remote monitoring. The term

 

does not include any of the following:

 

     (i) A person that purchases, rents, or uses an alarm system

 

that is affixed to a motor vehicle.

 

     (ii) A person that owns or conducts a business of selling,


 

leasing, renting, installing, maintaining, or monitoring an alarm

 

system that is affixed to a motor vehicle.

 

     (iii) An alarm system that is operated by this state, a

 

political subdivision of this state, an agency or department of

 

this state or a political subdivision of this state, or any other

 

governmental agency or department.

 

     (iv) A person that installs a nonmonitored alarm system for a

 

business that the person owns, is employed by, or manages.

 

     (v) A person that only manufactures or sells security alarm

 

systems, unless that person services, installs, monitors, or

 

responds to signals from security alarm systems at the protected

 

premises.

 

     (vi) A person that sells security alarm systems that are

 

designed to be installed and monitored by any of the following:

 

     (A) The customer, and not the person selling the security

 

alarm system.

 

     (B) An affiliate of or contractor to the person selling the

 

security alarm system if the affiliate or contractor that installs

 

at the protected premises or monitors the security alarm system is

 

registered under this act.

 

     (vii) A security alarm system contractor, as defined in section

 

2 of the private security business and security alarm act, 1968 PA

 

330, MCL 338.1052, that is required to obtain a license under that

 

act.

 

     (viii) A security guard agency that is licensed under article

 

14A of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.1421 to

 

339.1443, and whose employees or agents use client-installed


 

equipment or equipment installed by a system provider that is

 

registered under this act for the purpose of protecting the

 

personnel and property of a client of the security guard agency. As

 

used in this subparagraph:

 

     (A) "Equipment" includes, but is not limited to, access

 

control equipment; video surveillance and recording equipment;

 

audio communication equipment; intrusion detection and prevention

 

equipment; and automated barriers.

 

     (B) "Normal end user functions" includes, but is not limited

 

to, video and alarm monitoring; retrieving video history for use by

 

a client, security, or law enforcement; allowing or denying entry

 

to individuals or vehicles by controlled access equipment;

 

maintaining databases; or audio communication. Normal end user

 

functions may be performed on-site or from a remote facility of a

 

client.

 

     (C) "Use" means only normal end user functions and capability

 

that is installed or provided by a system provider to a client.

 

     (ix) A security guard agency that is licensed under article 14A

 

of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.1421 to 339.1443,

 

and whose employees or agents respond to burglar, fire, or

 

supervisory alarms for the purpose of securing the property and

 

ensuring the safety of individuals in or on that property. As used

 

in this subparagraph, "respond" may include reviewing alarm

 

history, resetting the alarm, and, if authorized, performing other

 

normal end-user tasks including bypassing a protected zone if

 

necessary to reset the alarm system.

 

     (n) "System user" means a person that uses a security alarm


 

system at a protected premises or remotely.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.161.                                    

 

          

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.164.                                    

 

            

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.162.                                     

 

         

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