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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="18-101" title_number="18" title_name="Security Systems Technicians" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Circumventional information” means information, including pass codes, that allows an individual to alter the operation of a security system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Circumventional information” does not include generic user or installation manuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Firm” means a partnership or corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Firm member” means a partner of a partnership or an officer or director of a corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“License” means a license issued by the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee to engage in the business of providing security systems services for compensation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Providing security systems services” means providing, on the premises of a person’s residential or commercial property, the service of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>surveying the property for purposes of installing a security system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>physically installing, maintaining, or repairing a security system for the customer; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>responding to a distress call or an alarm sounding from a security system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Representative member” means a firm member who is appointed under this title to act on behalf of the firm.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of State Police or the Secretary’s designee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Security systems agency” means an individual or a firm that conducts a business that provides security systems services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Security systems technician” means a person who personally provides security systems services.</text>
  </level>
</section>
