Exclusions From Requirements of Part

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The following persons, firms, associations or corporations are specifically excluded from the requirements of this part:

  1. Equipment manufacturers not providing direct sales, monitoring or installation of service to system end users;
  2. Telephone installers/dealers not providing direct sales, monitoring, installation or maintenance service of alarm systems;
  3. Equipment distributors or suppliers not offering sales, monitoring or installation services directly to the system user;
  4. Retail stores or catalog sales not offering installation or consulting services to the system user;
  5. Utility companies not installing, selling, servicing or monitoring alarm systems;
  6. Sprinkler contractors not providing direct sales, monitoring, installation or maintenance service of alarm systems;
  7. Electrical, mechanical or HVAC contractors licensed under chapter 6 of this title who do provide direct sales, monitoring, installation or maintenance service of alarm systems, but who derive less than fifty percent (50%) of their gross annual revenues from that business;
  8. Architects and engineers not providing direct sales, monitoring, installation or maintenance service of alarm systems;
  9. Individual property owners personally installing an alarm system within the owner's residence or other building not open to the general public;
  10. Direct sellers and installers dealing exclusively with alarm systems for motor vehicles;
  11. Locksmiths not providing direct sales, monitoring, installation or maintenance service of alarm systems. Locksmiths who install only mechanical locks or mechanical locks that have an integral alarm as part of their design without electrical components and electromechanical locks such as self-contained, low voltage exit alarm devices that secure a single entry point, that are not part of an integrated system, are also exempt from the requirements of this part;
  12. A company that does not provide monitoring services and that has fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or more in annual sales and whose product requires no internal building wiring to install;
  13. Medical alert or medical monitoring services to individuals made available by a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital;
  14. The monitoring and minor maintenance of alarm systems by a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital solely for its own use; and
  15. The sale or installation of delayed egress locks by a company when the locks are used to detect and monitor the wandering of residents of a nursing home.


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