2012 Mississippi Code
Title 73 - Professions and Vocations
Chapter 69 - Mississippi Residential Electronic Protection Licensing Act
§ 73-69-5. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings specified in this section:

(a) "Alarm contracting" means providing a residential electronic protective system, or a closed circuit television alarm system to 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 closed circuit television alarm system; holding oneself or one's company out for hire to perform any such task; or otherwise offering to perform any such task for compensation, either directly or indirectly.

(b) "Alarm contracting company" means an entity that holds a Class A license issued by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this chapter.

(c) "Board" means the Electronic Protection Advisory Licensing Board.

(d) "Burglar alarm" or "burglar alarm system" means an alarm, alarm system or portion of such an alarm or system that meets ANSI/SIA CP-01 Standards and is intended to detect or warn of an intrusion or other emergency in a structure.

(e) "Company" means a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited-liability company or any other entity.

(f) "Designated agent" means an owner or employee who holds a Class B license of an alarm contracting company or closed circuit television alarm system contracting company, who has been assigned the responsibility of submitting any notice required by this chapter to the State Fire Marshal.

(g) "Supervision" means on-site supervision by a licensed Class B or Class C alarm system technician.

(h) "Electronic protective system" means a device or a 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 its occupants. This term shall include a burglar alarm system or a closed circuit television alarm system, all as defined in this chapter, or a portion or combination of such alarms or systems. However, the term "electronic protective system" shall not include the following: (i) an alarm system installed in a motor vehicle; (ii) a burglar alarm system, or household fire warning 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; (iii) 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, a public agency, a volunteer fire association or their designated representatives.

(i) "Employee" means a person who performs services for wages or salary.

(j) "Employer" means a person or entity who hires another to perform services for a wage or salary.

(k) "Individual license" means a Class B, C, D or T license issued by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this chapter.

(l) "Licensee" means a person or entity to whom a license is granted pursuant to this chapter.

(m) "Officer" means the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, comptroller or any other person who performs functions for an alarm contracting company or closed circuit television alarm system contracting company, corresponding to those performed by those officers.

(n) "Operating location" means a physical address that houses or maintains records of clients.

(o) "Person" means a natural person or individual.

(p) "Principal" means a person or entity that owns at least twenty percent (20%) of an alarm contracting company or a closed circuit television alarm system contracting company regardless of the form of organization.

(q) "Salesperson" means a person who solicits another on behalf of an alarm contracting company or a closed circuit television alarm system contracting company by any means, including, but not limited to, telephone or electronic device, public notice or advertisement, door-to-door or any other type of personal interaction, or a person who participates in design, plan, specification or layout of an electronic protective system on behalf of an alarm contracting company or a closed circuit television alarm system contracting company.

(r) "Closed circuit television alarm system" means an alarm 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.

(s) "Closed circuit television alarm system contracting company" means an entity that holds a Class A license issued by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this chapter.

(t) "Closed circuit television alarm system contracting" means the selling, designing, repairing, servicing, adjusting and installing of closed circuit television alarm devices.