Bill Text: MI HB4654 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Occupations; alarm systems; installation of certain business monitoring systems without electrician's permit; authorize for registered or licensed security alarm providers. Amends sec. 733 of 2016 PA 407 (MCL 339.5733).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-18 - Assigned Pa 125'17 With Immediate Effect [HB4654 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4654-Chaptered.html
Act No. 125
Public Acts of 2017
Approved by the Governor
October 17, 2017
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 17, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 15, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
Introduced by Reps. Hoitenga, Kosowski, Glenn, Kesto, Sheppard, Phelps, Durhal, Iden, Liberati, Barrett, Webber, Marino and Hertel
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4654
AN ACT to amend 2016 PA 407, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws of this state regarding the regulation of certain occupations in the skilled trades and to regulate persons and activities relative to those occupations; to create a board for each of those occupations; to establish the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities, including the boards created under this act; to provide for the promulgation of rules; to provide for fees; to provide for penalties and civil fines; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 733 (MCL 339.5733).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 733. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, this article does not apply in the jurisdiction of a municipality that adopts or has adopted an ordinance that does all of the following:
(a) Provides standards for the examination and licensing of master electricians, electrical or specialty contractors, electrical journeymen, sign specialists, and fire alarm specialty technicians and the registration of apprentice electricians and fire alarm specialty apprentice technicians that are at least as stringent as those established in this article.
(b) Provides for enforcement that is substantially similar to this article.
(c) Provides for civil and criminal penalties and a citation system for minor violations substantially similar to article 5.
(d) Provides for the inspection of electrical wiring and equipment.
(2) This article shall not be construed as limiting the power of a municipality to enact an ordinance described in subsection (1), to provide for the licensing of persons as electrical or specialty contractors that have a place of business located in the municipality, or to provide for the licensing of journeymen electricians, sign specialists, or fire alarm specialty technicians who reside in the municipality, except that the ordinance shall not require any of the following:
(a) The procurement of a license or permit to execute the classes of work specified in section 737(3)(c), (d), (e), and (f).
(b) The procurement of a permit by a provider to install, maintain, replace, or service any electrical wiring, equipment, or devices associated with a business monitoring system or with a home monitoring system. As used in this subdivision and subdivision (c):
(i) “Business monitoring system” means a device or an assembly of equipment and devices, less than 50 volts, that allows a business to remotely monitor its business premises through audio, video, or sensor detection systems. A business monitoring system does not include a fire alarm system or a life safety system designed to protect and evacuate building occupants in the event of emergencies such as fire, smoke, or power outages.
(ii) “Home monitoring system” means a device or an assembly of equipment and devices that allows individuals to remotely monitor their home through audio, video, or sensor detection systems and that may allow them to remotely control the home’s environment, including, but not limited to, controlling temperature, humidity, lighting, doors, or locks.
(iii) “Provider” means a system provider that is registered under the security alarm systems act, 2012 PA 580, MCL 338.2181 to 338.2187, or a security alarm system contractor that is licensed under the private security business and security alarm act, 1968 PA 330, MCL 338.1051 to 338.1092.
(c) The procurement of a license or permit by a provider to install, maintain, replace, or service a security alarm system. As used in this subdivision, “security alarm system” means that term as defined in section 2 of the security alarm systems act, 2012 PA 580, MCL 338.2182, or section 2 of the private security business and security alarm act, 1968 PA 330, MCL 338.1052.
(d) The procurement of public liability insurance in excess of the coverage required under this article.
(3) A license or registration issued by the board under this article and licenses issued by a municipality that has standards for licensing at least as stringent as those established by the board shall be recognized by all municipalities.
(4) A municipality that provides for electrical inspection by local ordinance may require all electrical or specialty contractors, sign specialists, fire alarm specialty technicians, and classes of electricians doing work in the municipality to register in accordance with its local ordinance.
(5) Municipal registration requirements shall be reciprocal between the municipalities and between municipalities and the board as to registration requirements and fees, except that licensed electrical journeymen, sign specialists, and fire alarm specialty technicians are not required to register to work in municipalities under the jurisdiction of the board. A municipality shall officially recognize a license or registration issued under this article for purposes of its ordinance.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
