Current through December 10, 2024
Rule 19-7-1.06 - Exceptions to LicensureA. The requirement for licensure for alarm contracting as stated in Rule 1.05 of this Regulation shall not apply to the following: 1. Any company, natural person, or employee of the company or natural person, licensed to perform electrical work by the State Licensing Board of Contractors. This exception from licensure shall apply to the installation of wire, conduit, or other wire raceways, its associated boxes or fittings;2. Any owner, management company or public institution and such person's or entity's employees while such person or entity is designing, installing, inspecting, repairing, servicing, recording, adjusting or testing closed circuit television alarm systems, on the premises of the owner or public institution during the normal course and scope of his duties;3. Any owner, management company or public institution and such person's or entity's employees while such person or entity is designing, installing, inspecting, repairing, servicing or testing a burglar alarm system only on the premises of the owner or public institution during the normal course and scope of his duties;4. Any retailer that sells alarm systems as part of a multiproduct offering including any company and its affiliates, contractors, agents and employees that only sell alarm systems over the Internet or via a website, by telephone or in retail settings. This exception to licensure shall not apply to sales that take place door-to-door or physically inside or at or on a consumer's premises;5. Any retailer or installer of smoke alarm warning systems, or single-station heat detectors, sold and installed to detect or warn of smoke or fire and intended for use in a residential one- or two-family dwelling or wholly within the confines of an individual living unit in a residential multifamily structure;6. Any company, or its agents that monitor burglar alarm systems, intrusion detection systems, or electronic protection systems but that does not directly install such systems.7. Any professional engineer licensed by the Mississippi Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors;8. Any owner, management company or public institution and such person's or entity's employees while such person or entity is designing, installing, inspecting, repairing, servicing, recoding, adjusting or testing telemedicine, store-and-forward telemedicine services, remote patient-monitoring services or mediation adherence-management services during the normal course and scope of his duties.B. The requirement for licensure for alarm system contracting as stated in Rule 1.05 of this Regulation shall not apply to an officer or employee of the United States, while engaged in the performance of his official duties within the course and scope of his employment with the United States, this state, or any political subdivision of either.C. No person or company shall aid, abet, facilitate or otherwise assist any unlicensed person or company in engaging in alarm contracting, including, but not limited to, the sale of an electronic protective system as defined in this act when such person or company knew or should have known that the person or company thus assisted was unlicensed.Miss. Code Ann. § 73-69-15 (Rev. 2023)