§ 69-l. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise: 1. “Department” means the department of state. 2. “Person” means an individual, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. 3. “Licensee” means a person as herein defined licensed to engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire […]
§ 69-m. License required. 1. On and after October first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, no person shall engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems or hold himself out as being able so to do unless he is licensed therefor pursuant to this article. Nothing herein shall prohibit a person […]
§ 69-n. Powers of the secretary of state. In addition to the powers and duties elsewhere prescribed in this article, the secretary of state shall have power: 1. To appoint an adequate number of assistants, inspectors and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article, to prescribe their duties, […]
§ 69-o. License after examination; application. 1. After successfully passing the designated examination, any person over the age of eighteen years, desiring a license to engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems under this article, may make application to the secretary of state therefor. The application shall be […]
§ 69-p. License without examination. 1. Any person over the age of eighteen years who shall present to the secretary of state satisfactory evidence that he has been actually engaged in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems in this state for at least two years within the period of […]
§ 69-pp. Licensed master electrician waiver. 1. Any person who is licensed by any municipality as a master electrician and who engages in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems within such municipality shall be waived from the provisions of this article upon registration with the secretary of state in […]
§ 69-q. Licenses; display; renewal; duplicates. 1. All licenses shall be for a period of two years. 2. No license shall be assignable or transferable except as hereinafter provided. 3. (a) A license issued to a limited liability company or to a corporation to engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or […]
§ 69-r. Fees. 1. The fee for a license to engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems shall be two hundred dollars plus an amount to be determined by the division of criminal justice services to cover the cost of the division’s fingerprint search and report. For each […]
§ 69-s. Suspension and revocation of licenses. 1. A license to engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems may be suspended or revoked, or in lieu thereof a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars per violation payable to the department may be imposed or a reprimand issued by […]
§ 69-ss. Revocation, suspension, reprimands, fines; unlicensed activities. 1. The secretary of state shall, before imposing any fine or reprimand on a person thereof, or before issuing any order directing the cessation of unlicensed activities, and at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing, notify in writing such person, or the […]
§ 69-t. Hearing on charges; decision. No license shall be suspended or revoked nor shall any fine or reprimand be imposed until after a hearing had before an officer or employee of the department designated for such purpose by the secretary of state, upon notice to the licensee of at least ten days. The notice […]
§ 69-u. Judicial review. The action of the secretary of state in suspending, revoking or refusing to issue or renew a license, or imposing a fine or reprimand on the holder thereof may be reviewed by a proceeding brought under and pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
§ 69-v. Violations and penalties. Any person who shall directly or indirectly engage in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm systems or hold himself out to the public as being able so to do without a license therefor, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this article, or […]
§ 69-vv. Civil penalties. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, with respect to violations of section sixty-nine-ss of this article, the secretary of state is authorized, upon the complaint of any person or on his or her own initiative, to investigate and prosecute violations of the provisions of such section by persons not licensed pursuant […]
§ 69-w. Official acts used as evidence. The official acts of the secretary of state and department shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein and shall be entitled to be received in evidence in all actions at law and other legal proceedings in any court or before any board, body or officer.
§ 69-x. Disposition of moneys derived from operation of article. Processing fees for the fingerprint search conducted by the division of criminal justice services shall accompany the fingerprint cards and shall be deposited to the credit of the general fund. All remaining moneys derived from the operation of this article shall be deposited in the […]
§ 69-y. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have […]
§ 69-z. Applicability. 1. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to limit in any way the authority of a city with a population of one million or more to enact, implement and continue to enforce local laws and regulations governing home improvement contractors and their agents or employees that were in effect […]