North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 14B - Public Safety
Chapter 17 - ALARM SYSTEMS LICENSING BOARD
Section .0100 - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 17 .0103 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
In addition to the definitions under G.S. Chapter 74D, the following definitions shall apply throughout this Chapter:
(1) "Agency Head" means the Chairman of the Alarm Systems Licensing Board.
(2) "Applicant" means any person, firm, or corporation applying to the Board for a license or registration.
(3) "Board" means the Alarm Systems Licensing Board established by G.S. Chapter 74D.
(4) "Branch Manager or Operator" means the licensee endowed with the responsibility and liability for a branch office.
(5) "Branch Office" means a separate but dependent part of a central organization. The establishment of a telephone number or mailing address in the company name constitutes prima facie evidence of a branch office.
(6) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Alarm Systems Licensing Board.
(7) "Employee" means:
(8) "Installs" means placing an alarm device in a residential or commercial location and includes demonstrating the use of an alarm system device for a specific location and function within the protected premises and, with such knowledge of the alarm system operation, delivering that device to the owner or operator of the protected premises.
(9) "Knowledge of Specific Applications" means obtaining specific information about the premises which is protected or is to be protected, gained during an on-site visit. Conducting a survey shall be prima facie evidence of knowledge of specific applications.
(10) "Licensee" means any person licensed pursuant to G.S. Chapter 74D.
(11) "Monitors" means receiving a signal from a protected premises or contracting with a person, firm or corporation to provide accessible equipment and personnel to receive a signal from an alarm device in a protected premises and take action in response.
(12) "Qualifying Agent" means any person who meets the requirements of G.S. 74D-2(c), provided that no licensee may act as qualifying agent for more than one alarm systems business without prior authorization of the Board.
(13) "Responds" means receiving a monitored alarm signal that indicates the existence of an unauthorized intrusion or taking from a protected premises of a customer and being required by contract to take action upon receipt of that alarm signal.
(14) "Services" means inspecting, testing, repairing or replacing an alarm system device within protected premises.
Authority
G.S.
74D-2;
74D-5;
Temporary Rule
Eff. January 9, 1984, for a Period of 120 Days to Expire on May 7,
1984;
Eff. May 1, 1984;
Amended Eff. August 1, 1988;
February 1, 1988; July 1, 1987; January 1, 1986;
Transferred and
Recodified from
12 NCAC
11 .0103 Eff. July 1, 2015;
Readopted Eff. June 1, 2018.