Bill Text: NJ S3020 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts certain activities of alarm businesses from statutes governing practice of locksmithing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-08-13 - Substituted by A4333 (1R) [S3020 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-S3020-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator NIA H. GILL
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Exempts certain activities of alarm businesses from statutes governing practice of locksmithing.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning alarm businesses and amending P.L.1997, c.305.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.1997, c.305 (C.45:5A-28) is amended to read as follows:
8. The provisions of this act regarding the practice of locksmithing services shall not apply to:
a. The activities of any person performing public emergency services for a governmental entity if that person is operating under the direction or control of the organization by which he is employed;
b. The activities of any sales representative who is offering a sales demonstration to licensed locksmiths;
c. The activities of any automotive service dealer or lock manufacturer, or their agent or employee, while servicing, installing, repairing, or rebuilding locks from a product line utilized by that dealer or lock manufacturer;
d. The activities of any member of a trade union hired to install any mechanical locking device as part of a new building construction or renovation project; [and]
e. The activities of any person using any key duplicating machine or key blanks, except for keys marked "do not duplicate" or "master [key."] key;" and
f. The activities of an alarm business that is licensed pursuant to P.L.1997, c.305 (C.45:5A-23 et seq.), performed in combination with the installation, maintenance, moving, repairing, replacing, servicing or reconfiguration of an alarm system and limited to locks or access control devices that are controlled by an alarm system control device, including the removal of existing hardware.
(cf: P.L.1997, c.305, s.8)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill exempts certain activities conducted by alarm businesses from statutes governing the practice of locksmithing. Specifically, the bill exempts from statutes regulating the practice of locksmithing, the activities of an alarm business performed in combination with the installation, maintenance, moving, repairing, replacing, servicing or reconfiguration of an alarm system and limited to locks or access control devices that are controlled by an alarm system control device, including the removal of existing hardware.
