Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 338 > Act 580 of 2012 - Security Alarm Systems Act

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Alarm system: means any mechanical or electrical device, including an electronic access control system, a video monitoring system, a burglar alarm system, smoke detectors, or any other electronic system that is designed to emit an audible alarm or transmit a signal or message to a central monitoring station if it is activated and that is used to detect an unauthorized entry into a protected premises or alert other persons of the occurrence of a fire or medical emergency or the commission of an unlawful act against a person or in a protected premises. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Applicant: means a person for which a registration statement is filed under section 3. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Background check: means a criminal history check administered by a public or private entity that examines federal and state government records in a manner that allows for the successful identification of the criminal offenses listed in section 4(3)(c). See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Local unit of government: means a city, county, village, or township, or a special district designated by law that exercises limited government powers or powers in respect to limited government subjects. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Operator: means an employee or independent contractor who performs alarm operator, dispatcher, or monitor functions for a security alarm system at a central monitoring station. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• 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, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Protected premises: means a location at or in which a system user's security alarm system is installed and maintained. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Registrant: means a person that is registered by the department as a system provider. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Registration: means a registration that is issued by the department. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Remote monitoring: means the retransmission of information received from a security alarm system to a central monitoring system. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Security alarm system: means a detection device or an assembly of equipment and devices that transmits signals to a central monitoring station and is arranged to signal the presence of a hazard that requires urgent attention or to which police are expected to respond. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• System provider: means a person that engages in the business of selling, leasing, renting, maintaining, repairing, installing, or otherwise providing security alarm systems to the public at the protected premises or by remote monitoring. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• System user: means a person that uses a security alarm system at a protected premises or remotely. See Michigan Laws 338.2182
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o