Attorney's Note

Under the Michigan Laws, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Fup to 4 years
For details, see Mich. Comp. Laws ch. 777 pt. 2

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 338.1053

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, except that in reference to the regulation of private security police and private college security forces, department means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Private college security force: means a security force authorized under section 37. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Private security guard: means an individual or an employee of an employer who offers, for hire, to provide protection of property on the premises of another, and includes an employee of a private college security force. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Private security police: means that part of a business organization or educational institution primarily responsible for the protection of property on the premises of the business organization, but does not include a private college security force. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Security alarm system: means a detection device or an assembly of equipment and devices that is arranged to signal the presence of a hazard that requires urgent attention and is remotely monitored by a central monitoring system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Security alarm system agent: means an individual employed by a security alarm system contractor whose duties include the altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, monitoring, responding to, or causing others to respond to a security alarm system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  • Security alarm system contractor: means a person engaged in the installation, maintenance, alteration, monitoring, or servicing of security alarm systems or who responds to a security alarm system. See Michigan Laws 338.1052
  (1) Unless licensed under this act, a sole proprietorship, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation shall not engage in the business of security alarm system contractor, private security guard, private security police, private college security force, patrol service, or an agency furnishing those services. A person, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation shall not advertise its business to be that of security alarm system contractor, security alarm system agent, private security guard agency, or an agency furnishing those services without having first obtained from the department a license to do so for each office and branch office to be owned, conducted, managed, or maintained for the conduct of that business.
  (2) A person shall not sell, install, operate, adjust, arrange for, or contract to provide a device which upon activation, either mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, initiates the automatic calling or dialing of, or makes a connection directly to, a telephone assigned to a public service, utility, or police agency, for the purpose of delivering a recorded message, without first receiving written permission from that service, utility, or agency.
  (3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.