BILL NUMBER: AB 952	AMENDED	03/27/95
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 27, 1995

INTRODUCED BY  Assembly Members Gallegos and Speier

                        FEBRUARY 22, 1995

   An act to amend Section 7590.2 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alarm companies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 952, as amended, Gallegos.  Alarm companies.
   Existing law, the Alarm Company Act, provides for the licensing
and regulation of alarm companies.  For those purposes, an alarm
company operator is defined to exclude any entity retained to monitor
alarm systems provided the entity does not perform any other duties
within the definition of an alarm company operator.
   This bill would delete that exclusion and instead provide that the
definition includes any entity that is retained by a licensed alarm
company operator {+ or any other person or entity +} to monitor {+
one or more +} alarm systems, whether or not the entity performs any
other duties within the definition of an alarm company operator, as
specified.
   A violation of the Alarm Company Act is a misdemeanor.  By
expanding the scope of a crime the bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.
  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 7590.2 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7590.2.  An "alarm company operator" means any person who, for any
consideration whatsoever, engages in business or accepts employment
to install, maintain, alter, sell on premises, monitor, or service
alarm systems or who responds to alarm systems except for any alarm
agent.  "Alarm company operator," includes any entity that is
retained by a licensed alarm company operator {- to monitor alarm
systems for the licensed alarm company operator -} {+ , a customer,
or any other person or entity, to monitor one or more alarm systems
+} , whether or not the entity performs any other duties within the
definition of an alarm company operator.  The provisions of this
chapter, to the extent that they can be made applicable, shall be
applicable to the duties and functions performed in monitoring alarm
systems.
   A person licensed as an alarm company operator may not conduct any
investigation or investigations except those that are incidental to
personal injury, or the theft, loss, embezzlement, misappropriation,
or concealment of any property, or any other thing enumerated in this
section, which he or she has been hired or engaged to protect.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district
will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,
eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime
or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
   Notwithstanding Section 17580 of the Government Code, unless
otherwise specified, the provisions of this act shall become
operative on the same date that the act takes effect pursuant to the
California Constitution.