Bill Text: GA HB687 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Alarm monitoring service companies; utilize alarm verification; provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-21 - Senate Read Second Time [HB687 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HB687-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Alarm monitoring service companies; utilize alarm verification; provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-21 - Senate Read Second Time [HB687 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HB687-Comm_Sub.html
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The House Committee on Public Safety & Homeland Security offers the
following substitute to HB 687:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to general provisions for law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to
require persons and companies licensed to provide alarm monitoring services to
utilize alarm verification in order to preserve valuable municipal and county
law enforcement and firefighter resources; to provide for exceptions; to provide
for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws;
and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general
provisions for law enforcement officers and agencies, is amended by revising
Code Section 35-1-9, which is reserved, as follows:
"35-1-9.
(a)
As used in this Code section, the term:
(1)
'Alarm monitoring company' means any person, company, corporation, partnership,
business, or a representative or agency thereof authorized to provide alarm
monitoring services for burglar alarm systems, fire alarm systems, or other
similar electronic security systems whether such systems are maintained on
commercial business property, public property, or individual residential
property.
(2)
'Alarm verification' means a reasonable attempt by an alarm monitoring company
to contact the alarm site or alarm user, by telephone or other electronic means,
to determine whether a burglar alarm signal is valid prior to requesting law
enforcement to be dispatched to the location and, where the initial attempted
contact cannot be made, a second reasonable attempt to make such contact
utilizing a different telephone number or electronic address or
number.
(b)
Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, an alarm monitoring
company shall utilize an alarm verification system for all alarm
signals.
(c)
Alarm verification shall not be required in the case of a fire alarm or a panic
or robbery-in-progress alarm or in cases where a crime-in-progress has been
verified to be true by video or audible
means.
Reserved."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.