New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 31A - FIRE ALARM, BURGLAR ALARM AND LOCKSMITH LICENSEES AND BUSINESSES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 13:31A-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means P.L. 1997, c. 305, which amended and supplemented the Electrical Contractors Licensing Act, P.L. 1962, c.162, 45:5A-1 et seq.
"Access control system" means a system that provides access to authorized persons and may record and report which persons entered or exited a facility or areas within a facility, which doors or areas were accessed while persons are within a facility, and the time that such activity occurred. "Access control systems" may include the use of keys, access cards, locks, card readers, biometric identification devices, recorders, printers and control devices. "Access control systems" may be independent systems or may be integrated with other electronic security systems.
"Board" means the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors established pursuant to 45:5A-3.
"Burglar alarm" means a security system comprised of an interconnected series of alarm devices or components, including systems interconnected with radio frequency signals, which emits an audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition and providing a warning of intrusion, which is designed to discourage crime.
"Burglar alarm business" means the installation, servicing or maintenance of burglar alarms or electronic security systems, or the monitoring or responding to alarm signals when provided in conjunction with the installation, servicing or maintenance of burglar alarms or electronic security systems. "Burglar alarm business" shall also include the installation, servicing or maintenance of smoke detection systems in one and/or two family detached, residential dwellings.
"Business firm" means a partnership, corporation or other business entity engaged in the burglar alarm business, fire alarm business, or the provision of locksmithing services.
"Business license" means the authorization to provide fire alarm, burglar alarm, electronic security system or locksmithing services.
"Business qualifier" means a licensee who has satisfied the experience requirements set forth in 13:31A-2.1 or 3.1, who authorizes the holder of a business license to provide fire alarm, burglar alarm, electronic security system or locksmithing services.
"Commissioning" means to perform a system verification in order to test the system for service readiness.
"Committee" means the Fire Alarm, Burglar Alarm and Locksmith Advisory Committee established pursuant to 45:5A-23.
"Closed circuit television" or "CCTV" means a video security system that may include video cameras, IP (Internet Protocol) cameras, monitors, switches, camera enclosures, controls and other related devices. "Closed circuit television" may be an independent system or may be integrated with other electronic security systems.
"Division" means the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
"Electronic security system" means a security system comprised of an interconnected series of devices or components, including systems with audio and video signals or other electronic systems, which emits or transmits an audible, visual or electronic signal warning of intrusion and provides notification of authorized entry or exit, which is designed to discourage crime. "Electronic security systems" include access control systems, CCTV systems, intercom systems and other electronic monitoring devices.
"Employee" means any person engaged in the burglar alarm business, fire alarm business, or the provision of locksmithing services who performs installation, servicing or maintenance of burglar alarms or fire alarms, or who performs locksmithing services for the business qualifier, other than an independent contractor, and whose remuneration is reported on Form W-2 to the Internal Revenue Service.
"Fire alarm" means a security system comprised of an interconnected series of alarm devices or components, including systems interconnected with radio frequency signals, which emits an audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition and which provides a warning of the presence of smoke or fire. "Fire alarm" does not include an energy management system whose primary purpose is telecommunications with energy control, the monitoring of the interior environment being an incidental feature thereto.
"Fire alarm business" means the installation, servicing or maintenance of fire alarms or electronic security systems, or the monitoring or responding to alarm signals when provided in conjunction with fire alarms or electronic security systems in any facility.
"Installation" means the survey of a premises, the design and preparation of the specifications for the equipment or system to be installed pursuant to a survey, the installation of the equipment or system, or the demonstration of the equipment or system after the installation is completed.
"Intercom system" means an audio security communication system containing control circuitry that may include a feature designed to selectively release electronically secured doors.
"Licensed locksmith" means a person who is licensed pursuant to 45:5A-27 and the provisions of this chapter.
"Licensee" means a person licensed to engage in the burglar alarm business, the fire alarm business, or the provision of locksmithing services pursuant to 45:5A-27 and the provisions of this chapter.
"Locksmithing services" means the modification, recombination, repair or installation of mechanical locking devices and electronic security systems for any type of compensation and includes repairing, rebuilding, recoding, servicing, adjusting, installing, manipulating or bypassing of a mechanical or electronic locking device, for controlled access or egress to premises, vehicles, safes, vaults, safe doors, lock boxes, automatic teller machines, or other devices for safeguarding areas where access is meant to be limited. Locksmithing services also means operating a mechanical or electronic locking device, safe or vault by means other than those intended by the manufacturer of such locking devices, safes or vaults, and consulting and providing technical advice regarding selection of hardware and locking systems of mechanical or electronic locking devices and electronic security systems. "Locksmithing services" does not include the installation of a prefabricated lock set and door knob into a door of a resident.
"Person" means a person, firm, corporation or other legal entity.
"Smoke detection system" means an electronic system consisting of a control unit (which may be a component of a combination fire/burglar control panel), smoke detector(s), heat detector(s), if required, audible appliance(s) and battery back-up, as utilized in one and/or two family detached, residential dwellings.
"Verification" means the testing of a system with sufficient thoroughness so as to ascertain that every primary and secondary operation coincides with each appropriate initiating device or zone's activation ensuring correct system operation.