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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-1314" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="13" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Law enforcement agency” means a police department of the State or of a county or municipal corporation of the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Response time” means the period of time from the moment an alarm from a security system is activated to the moment a law enforcement agency responds to the alarm sounding.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Security system” means any burglary alarm system or robbery alarm system.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Security system” includes the service of monitoring the property to which a security system is attached in case of an alarm sounding.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Seller” means a person who sells or offers for sale a security system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In connection with a sale or offer for sale of a security system, a seller may not state that the seller can or will provide, as part of the security system, a response time by a law enforcement agency to an alarm sounding that is shorter in time than the response time by the law enforcement agency to a general distress call.</text>
  </level>
</section>
