Okla. Stat. tit. 59 § 1800.2

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 1800.2 - Definitions

As used in the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Act:

1. "Alarm industry" means the sale, except as provided in Section 1800.3 of this title, installation, alteration, repair, replacement, service, inspection, or maintenance of alarm systems or service involving receipt of alarm signals for the purpose of employee response and investigation of such signals or any combination of the foregoing activities except inspections on one- and two-family dwellings are exempt;

2. "Alarm system" means one or more devices designed either to detect and signal an unauthorized intrusion or entry or to signal a fire or other emergency condition, which signals are responded to by public law enforcement officers, fire department personnel, private guards or security officers;

3. "Battery-charged security fence" means an alarm system and ancillary components or equipment attached to such a system including, but not limited to, a fence, a battery-operated energizer, which is intended to periodically deliver voltage impulses to the fence connected to it, and a battery-charging device used exclusively to charge the battery;

4. "Committee" means the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Committee;

5. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor;

6. "Integrated security system" means a mechanical and/or electronic security device that includes, but is not limited to, multiple integrated locks, burglar alarm systems, access control systems, fiber optic security systems, video surveillance systems, and nurse call systems, but does not include a stand-alone-single element of an integrated security system;

7. "Licensee" means any person licensed pursuant to the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Act;

8. "Lock" means mechanical or electronic devices consisting entirely of Class 2 or Class 3 circuits and power source requirements as established by the National Electrical Code and designed to control use of a device or control ingress or egress of a structure or automobile including, but not limited to, peripheral devices to alarm systems, safes, vaults, safe deposit boxes, biometric/retina readers and mechanical or electronic key systems;

9. "Locksmith industry" means the sale, servicing or installing, repairing, rebuilding, readying, rekeying, repinning, adjusting or installing locks, mechanical or electronic security devices, annunciation devices not designed to require a response by law enforcement or opening or bypassing a lock by a means other than those intended by the manufacturer of such devices. For the purposes of the Alarm, Locksmith and Fire Sprinkler Industry Act, "mechanical or electronic security devices" includes, but is not limited to, access control systems including peripheral devices to alarm systems, fiber optic security systems, fire sprinklers, closed circuit television, video surveillance and nurse call systems;

10. "Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other similar entity; and

11. "Residential alarm monitoring or service contract" means a contract with end users for alarm monitoring and/or services for individual residential premises for their own use.

Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 1800.2

Amended by Laws 2022 , c. 167, s. 1, eff. 5/2/2022.

Amended by Laws 2019 , c. 218, s. 1, eff. 11/1/2019.

Amended by Laws 2018 , c. 90, s. 2, eff. 11/1/2018.

Amended by Laws 2017 , c. 107, s. 1, eff. 11/1/2017.

Amended by Laws 2015 , c. 172, s. 2, eff. 11/1/2015.

Laws 1985, HB 1358, c. 217, §2, eff. 11/1/1985; Amended by Laws 1993, HB 1031, c. 295, §1, eff. 9/1/1993; Amended by Laws 1998 , HB 2404, c. 174, §1, eff. 4/28/1998; Amended by Laws 2001 , SB 354, c. 394, §51, eff. 1/1/2002; Amended by Laws 2006 , SB 1741, c. 110, §2, eff. 1/1/2007; Amended by Laws 2010 , HB 2320, c. 299, §1, eff. 11/1/2010; Amended by Laws 2012 , SB 1866, c. 368, §3, eff. 11/1/2012.