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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="12.5-101" title_number="12.5" title_name="Locksmiths" 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">
    <text>“Business” means a commercial entity that provides locksmith services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Employee” means an individual employed by a licensed locksmith to provide locksmith services on behalf of the licensed locksmith.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Fixed business address” means a single physical location where a licensee conducts business and at which the licensee or an employee of the licensee is available:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>during normal business hours; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>other hours as provided in the application for the license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“License” means a license issued by the Secretary to provide locksmith services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Licensed locksmith” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a business that is licensed by the Secretary to provide locksmith services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Local law enforcement unit” means the Department of State Police, a police department in the State, or sheriff in the State:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>designated by the county or municipal governing body for a licensee with an in–State fixed business address; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>designated by the Secretary for a licensee with an out–of–state fixed business address.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Provide locksmith services” means to engage professionally and for compensation in:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>repairing, rebuilding, rekeying, repinning, recombinating, adjusting, or installing mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical locking devices, safes, vaults, or safe deposit boxes; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>operating a mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical locking device or opening safes, vaults, or safe deposit boxes by a means other than that intended by the manufacturer of such locking devices.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
