Oklahoma § 59-1800.2 - Definitions

§ 59-1800.2. 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 oneand 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-singleelement 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

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

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.

Added by Laws 1985, c. 217, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Amended by Laws

1993, c. 295, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1998, c. 174, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 28, 1998; Laws 2001, c. 394, § 51, eff. Jan. 1,

2002; Laws 2006, c. 110, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007; Laws 2010, c. 299,

§ 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2010; Laws 2012, c. 368, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2012;

Laws 2015, c. 172, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2017, c. 107, § 1,

eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2018, c. 90, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws

2019, c. 218, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2022, c. 167, § 1, emerg.

eff. May 2, 2022.