Section 338.1052 - Definitions; persons not subject to act.
PRIVATE SECURITY BUSINESS AND SECURITY ALARM ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 330 of 1968
338.1052 Definitions; persons not subject to act.
Sec. 2.
(1) As used in this act:
(a) "Commission" means the commission on law enforcement standards created under section 3 of the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.603.
(b) "Department" means the department of energy, labor, and economic growth except that in reference to the regulation of private security police and private college security forces, department means the department of state police.
(c) "Governing board" means a board of regents, board of trustees, board of governors, board of control, or other governing body of an institution of higher education.
(d) "Licensee" means a sole proprietorship, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation licensed under this act.
(e) "Private college security force" means a security force created under section 37.
(f) "Private security guard" means an individual or an employee of an employer who offers, for hire, to provide protection of property on the premises of another, and includes an employee of a private college security force.
(g) "Private security police" means that part of a business organization or educational institution primarily responsible for the protection of property on the premises of the business organization, but does not include a private college security force.
(h) "Security alarm system" means a detection device or an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention or to which police are expected to respond. Security alarm system includes any system that can electronically cause an expected response by a law enforcement agency to a premises by means of the activation of an audible signal, visible signal, electronic notification, or video signal, or any combination of these signals, to a remote monitoring location on or off the premises. Security alarm system does not include a video signal that is not transmitted over a public communication system or a fire alarm system or an alarm system that monitors temperature, humidity, or other condition not directly related to the detection of an unauthorized intrusion into a premises or an attempted robbery at a premises.
(i) "Security alarm system agent" means a person employed by a security alarm system contractor whose duties include the altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, monitoring, responding to, or causing others to respond to a security alarm system.
(j) "Security alarm system contractor" means a sole proprietorship, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation engaged in the installation, maintenance, alteration, monitoring, or servicing of security alarm systems or who responds to a security alarm system. Security alarm system contractor does not include a business that only sells or manufactures security alarm systems unless the business services security alarm systems, installs security alarm systems, monitors or arranges for the monitoring of a security alarm system, or responds to security alarm systems at the protected premises.
(k) "Security business" means a person or business entity engaged in offering, arranging, or providing 1 or more of the following services:
(i) Security alarm system installation, service, maintenance, alteration, or monitoring.
(ii) Private security guard.
(iii) Private security police.
(2) All businesses furnishing security alarm systems for the protection of persons and property, whose employees and security technicians travel on public property and thoroughfares in the pursuit of their duties, are subject to this act.
(3) A communications common carrier providing communications channels under tariffs for the transmission of signals in connection with an alarm system is not subject to this act.
(4) Railroad policemen appointed and commissioned under the railroad code of 1993, 1993 PA 354, MCL 462.101 to 462.451, are exempt from this act.
History: 1968, Act 330, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1968 ;-- Am. 1969, Act 168, Imd. Eff. Aug. 5, 1969 ;-- Am. 1975, Act 190, Imd. Eff. Aug. 5, 1975 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 411, Eff. Mar. 28, 2001 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 473, Eff. Oct. 1, 2002 ;-- Am. 2010, Act 68, Imd. Eff. May 13, 2010