Bill Text: NY A07708 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires property owners to obtain a permit prior to installing a security system with a direct link to a local police agency and authorizes fines for false alarms after a showing that a police agency has responded to at least three such false alarms on prior occasions.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - held for consideration in economic development [A07708 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A07708-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7708
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Develop-
ment
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a
permit for security systems with a direct link to a local police agen-
cy
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 69-m of the general business law, as amended by
2 chapter 575 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
3 S 69-m. License required. 1. On and after October first, nineteen
4 hundred ninety-two, no person shall engage in the business of install-
5 ing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems or hold
6 himself out as being able so to do unless he is licensed therefor pursu-
7 ant to this article. Nothing herein shall prohibit a person licensed in
8 accordance with the provisions of this article from employing individ-
9 uals to assist in the installation, servicing or maintaining of security
10 or fire alarm systems, provided such licensee issues identification
11 cards on a form prescribed by the secretary of state to each unlicensed
12 individual.
13 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
14 a license shall not be required of a person to engage in the business of
15 installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems if
16 such an alarm system is to be installed in a motor vehicle, water vessel
17 or aircraft or is a battery-operated smoke detection device. [Further-
18 more]
19 3. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
20 a property owner or proprietor who purchases or owns an alarm system to
21 be installed by him or his employees onto his property or place of busi-
22 ness shall not fall under the provisions of this article PROVIDED,
23 HOWEVER, THAT WHERE A PROPERTY OWNER OR PROPRIETOR WISHES TO INSTALL OR
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06993-01-5
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1 HAVE INSTALLED A SECURITY SYSTEM WHICH HAS A DIRECT LINK TO A LOCAL
2 POLICE AGENCY HE OR SHE SHALL FIRST OBTAIN A PERMIT FROM SUCH POLICE
3 AGENCY BEFORE DOING SO.
4 4. A LOCAL POLICE AGENCY IS AUTHORIZED TO IMPOSE FINES AGAINST PROPER-
5 TY OWNERS OR PROPRIETORS WHERE SECURITY SYSTEMS WITH A DIRECT LINK TO
6 SUCH LOCAL POLICE AGENCY CAUSE POLICE TO RESPOND TO FALSE ALARMS. SUCH
7 FINES MAY ONLY BE IMPOSED AFTER A SHOWING THAT A POLICE AGENCY HAS
8 RESPONDED TO FALSE ALARMS ON AT LEAST THREE PRIOR OCCASIONS.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 it shall have become a law, provided, however that any rules or regu-
11 lations necessary for the timely implementation of the provisions of
12 this act are authorized to be completed on or before such effective
13 date.
