Section 260-RICR-30-15-6.3 - DefinitionsA. For the purposes of this Part, the following terms shall have the following meaning: 1. "Advertise" means the issuance of any card, sign, or device to any person; the causing, permitting, or allowing of any sign or marking on or in any building or structure, or in any newspaper periodical, or in any directory under a listing of burglar alarm or related businesses, or broadcasting by airwave for transmission with or without any limiting qualifications.2. "Department" means the Department of Labor and Training.3. "False alarm" means the activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the owner or lessee of the system or of the alarm business and his employee(s) or alarm agent(s).a. False alarm does not include an alarm caused by a leased telephone line malfunction, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or any other external factor, violent or non-violent condition beyond the control of the owner or lessee of the alarm system or installing or servicing alarm business and his employee(s) or agent(s), including outside agents, elements, events, or stimuli beyond the supervision and control of the subscriber or alarm business.b. False alarming shall not necessarily be construed upon cursory or initial examination should premises show no outward signs or forced entry, or should areas of protected access, such as doors or windows, appear apparently unopened, or should apprehension of suspects suspected of apparent intrusion not be forthcoming immediately after alarm has been triggered.4. "Emergency" is a situation where a triggered alarm or alarm system attributed to a malfunction causes a gross nuisance or lack of protection on the premises in which it is installed, or when a triggered alarm attributed to an unauthorized intrusion or break-in causes a lack of protection on a premises. Emergency also pertains to the inadvertent or mistaken triggering of an alarm or alarm system by a lessee or owner of the system and which for any reason requires the services of an installer to reset, the absence of which service would lead to a gross nuisance or lack of protection on a premises.5. "I.D. card" means an identification card issued to an employee of an alarm business by either the alarm business in the case of a temporary I.D. card or by the Department in the case of a permanent I.D. card, for the privilege of transacting business with the public at the request of an alarm business employer in the State of Rhode Island.6. "Leasing" means an agreement by which an alarm business conveys to a subscriber a burglar alarm system for a specified term and for a specified rent.7. "License" means a license issued by the Department to an alarm business for the privilege of transacting business or operating within the boundaries of Rhode Island.8. "Monitoring" means responding to or causing others to respond to an alarm system at a protected premise within the state.9. "Non-emergency" is a situation where an alarm or alarm system needs service for any reason but the condition, which precipitates a need for such service, does not result in a triggered alarm which causes a gross nuisance or lack of protection on a protected premises.10. "Original license" means: a. a license issued to the alarm business which did not, at the time it made application, hold an alarm business license issued by the Department, orb. a license issued to an alarm business which has applied for a license under R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-57-1 et seq. after undergoing a change of ownership.11. "Scheduled maintenance" means service of an alarm system, the terms of which are agreed to between the alarm business and subscriber in advance of required service of the system, and which terms shall be determined under provision of written contract.12. "Statute" means R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-57-1 et seq., as amended, entitled Business and Professions.13. "Subscriber" means a business or person which buys or otherwise obtains an alarm system or has a contract with an alarm company to monitor and/or service an alarm system.260 R.I. Code R. 260-RICR-30-15-6.3