Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 260 - Department of Labor and Training › Chapter 30 - Workforce Regulation and Safety › Subchapter 15 - Professional Regulation › Part 6 - Alarm Agents and Alarm Businesses (260-RICR-30-15-6) › Section 260-RICR-30-15-6.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. For the purposes of this Part, the
				 following terms shall have the following meaning:
1. "Advertise" means the issuance of any
				 card, sign, or device to any person; the causing, permitting, or allowing of
				 any sign or marking on or in any building or structure, or in any newspaper
				 periodical, or in any directory under a listing of burglar alarm or related
				 businesses, or broadcasting by airwave for transmission with or without any
				 limiting qualifications.
2.
				 "Department" means the Department of Labor and Training.
3. "False alarm" means the activation of an
				 alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or
				 the negligence of the owner or lessee of the system or of the alarm business
				 and his employee(s) or alarm agent(s).
a.
				 False alarm does not include an alarm caused by a leased telephone line
				 malfunction, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or any other external factor,
				 violent or non-violent condition beyond the control of the owner or lessee of
				 the alarm system or installing or servicing alarm business and his employee(s)
				 or agent(s), including outside agents, elements, events, or stimuli beyond the
				 supervision and control of the subscriber or alarm business.
b. False alarming shall not necessarily be
				 construed upon cursory or initial examination should premises show no outward
				 signs or forced entry, or should areas of protected access, such as doors or
				 windows, appear apparently unopened, or should apprehension of suspects
				 suspected of apparent intrusion not be forthcoming immediately after alarm has
				 been triggered.
4.
				 "Emergency" is a situation where a triggered alarm or alarm system attributed
				 to a malfunction causes a gross nuisance or lack of protection on the premises
				 in which it is installed, or when a triggered alarm attributed to an
				 unauthorized intrusion or break-in causes a lack of protection on a premises.
				 Emergency also pertains to the inadvertent or mistaken triggering of an alarm
				 or alarm system by a lessee or owner of the system and which for any reason
				 requires the services of an installer to reset, the absence of which service
				 would lead to a gross nuisance or lack of protection on a premises.
5. "I.D. card" means an identification card
				 issued to an employee of an alarm business by either the alarm business in the
				 case of a temporary I.D. card or by the Department in the case of a permanent
				 I.D. card, for the privilege of transacting business with the public at the
				 request of an alarm business employer in the State of Rhode Island.
6. "Leasing" means an agreement by which an
				 alarm business conveys to a subscriber a burglar alarm system for a specified
				 term and for a specified rent.
7.
				 "License" means a license issued by the Department to an alarm business for the
				 privilege of transacting business or operating within the boundaries of Rhode
				 Island.
8. "Monitoring" means
				 responding to or causing others to respond to an alarm system at a protected
				 premise within the state.
9.
				 "Non-emergency" is a situation where an alarm or alarm system needs service for
				 any reason but the condition, which precipitates a need for such service, does
				 not result in a triggered alarm which causes a gross nuisance or lack of
				 protection on a protected premises.
10. "Original license" means:
a. a license issued to the alarm business
				 which did not, at the time it made application, hold an alarm business license
				 issued by the Department, or
b. a
				 license issued to an alarm business which has applied for a license under R.I.
				 Gen. Laws §
												5-57-1 et seq. after
				 undergoing a change of ownership.
11. "Scheduled maintenance" means service of
				 an alarm system, the terms of which are agreed to between the alarm business
				 and subscriber in advance of required service of the system, and which terms
				 shall be determined under provision of written contract.
12. "Statute" means R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-57-1 et seq., as
				 amended, entitled Business and Professions.
13. "Subscriber" means a business or person
				 which buys or otherwise obtains an alarm system or has a contract with an alarm
				 company to monitor and/or service an alarm system.