Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 19 - Department of Insurance › Part 7 - State Fire Marshal › Chapter 1 - Mississippi Electronic Protection Licensing Act Rules and Regulation › Rule 19-7-1.04 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
As used in this Regulation, the following terms shall be
				  defined as follows:
A. Alarm Contracting - Providing an electronic protective
				  systemto another by any means, including, but not limited to, the sale, lease,
				  rent, design, planning with the intent to pre-wire, pre-wiring, installation,
				  maintenance, repair testing, modification, improvement, alteration, inspection
				  or servicing of an electronic protective system, or; holding oneself or one's
				  company out for hire to perform any such task; or otherwise offering to perform
				  any such task for compensation directly.
B. Alarm contracting company - An entity that holds a Class A
				  license issued by the State Fire Marshal.
C. "Alarm verification" means an attempt by a monitoring
				  company or its representative to contact a burglar alarm location or a burglar
				  alarm user by telephone or other electronic means to determine whether a
				  burglar alarm signal is valid in an attempt to avoid unnecessary police
				  response before requesting law enforcement to be dispatched to the location.
				  Alarm verification further means that at least a second call shall be made to a
				  different number if the first attempt fails to reach an alarm user. All persons
				  licensed to monitor alarms in Mississippi shall employ alarm verification
				  standards as defined in the latest version of ANSI/CSAA CS-V-01, for all
				  burglar alarm signals except for hold-up alarms.
D. Board - the Electronic Protection Advisory Licensing
				  Board.
E. Burglar alarm/ burglar alarm system or "intrusion
				  detection system" or "electronic protective system" - an alarm, alarm system or
				  portion of such an alarm or system that is intended to detect or warn of an
				  intrusion or other emergency in a structure. Such systems shall be certified
				  per the latest version of ANSI/SIA CP01.
F. Chief Deputy State Fire Marshal - the individual appointed
				  by the Commissioner of Insurance/State Fire Marshal who, along with his
				  employees, is designated by the Commissioner of Insurance/State Fire Marshal to
				  implement and enforce this chapter and to maintain, among other duties, the
				  Electronic Protection Division of the State Fire Marshal's Office.
G. Company - proprietorship, partnership, corporation,
				  limited liability company or other entity. For purposes of this Regulation,
				  other entity may include a business office physically located within the
				  boundaries of this State.
H. Department - the Mississippi Department of
				  Insurance.
I. Designated agent - an owner or employee who holds a Class
				  B license of an alarm contracting company who has been assigned the
				  responsibility of submitting any notice required by the State Fire
				  Marshal.
J. Supervision - on-site direct supervision by a qualified
				  license holder for the duties being performed.
K. Electronic protective system - a devise or series or
				  assembly of interconnected devices which, when activated by automatic or manual
				  means, produces an audible, visual or electronic signal intended to detect or
				  warn of a threat to a structure or emergency to or from its occupants. This
				  term shall include a burglar alarm system, intrusion detection system,
				  closed-circuit video system or electronic access control system, or a portion
				  or combination of such alarms or systems. However, the term "electronic
				  protective system" shall not include an alarm system installed in a motor
				  vehicle; a burglar alarm system, or household fire warning system sold at a
				  retail store as part of a multiproduct offering to an individual end user for
				  self-installation; or a single station fire alarm system sold at retail to an
				  individual end user for self-installation or installed by a designated
				  representative of a retailer as part of the retail transaction or installed by
				  a fire department, the State Fire Marshal Office, a public agency, a volunteer
				  fire association or their designated representatives.
L. Employee - a person who performs services for wages or
				  salary.
M. Employer - a person or entity who hires another to perform
				  services for a wage or salary.
N. Individual license - a Class B, C, D, or H license issued
				  by the State Fire Marshal.
O. Licensee - a person or entity to which a license is
				  granted.
P. Officer - the president, vice-president, secretary,
				  treasurer, comptroller or any other person who performs functions for an alarm
				  contracting company, corresponding to those performed by those officers.
Q. Operating location - a physical address that houses or
				  maintains records of clients.
R. Person - a natural person or individual.
S. Principal - a person or entity that owns at least twenty
				  percent (20%) of an alarm contracting company regardless of the form of
				  organization.
T. Salesperson - a person who solicits another on behalf of
				  an alarm contracting company, door-to-door personal interaction, or a person
				  who participates in the design, planning, specification or layout of an
				  electronic protective system on behalf of an alarm contracting company.
U. Closed video system - an electronic protective system that
				  provides video surveillance of events, primarily by means of transmission,
				  recording, or transmission and recording of visual signals through the use of
				  cameras, receivers, monitors and other visual imaging systems.
V. "Electronic access control system" means an electronic
				  protective system that is powered by the building's primary power source and is
				  used as a process to grant or deny an individual access to a specific area or
				  object based upon their possession of an item (which requires a decoder), a
				  code or physical characteristic (biometrics).
W. "Smoke alarm" means a single or multiple-station alarm
				  responsive to smoke.
X. "Single-station alarm" means a detector comprising an
				  assembly that incorporates sensor, control components and an alarm notification
				  appliance in one unit operated from a power source either located in the unit
				  or obtained at the point of installation.
Y. "Multiple station alarm" means two (2) or more
				  single-station alarm devices that can be interconnected so that actuation of
				  one causes all integral or separate audible alarms to operate; or one (1)
				  single-station alarm device having connections to other detectors or to a
				  manual fire alarm box.
Z. "Heat detector" means a fire detector that detects either
				  abnormally high temperature or rate-of-temperature rise, or
				  both.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										73-69-5
				  (Rev. 2014)