Section 57. The words ''security system'', as used in sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, shall mean wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances installed and interconnected electrically or electronically to permit access control, proprietary signalling, surveillance and the detection of burglary, intrusion, holdup, or other conditions requiring response or the transmission of signals or audible alarms.
No person, firm or corporation shall engage in, advertise, or hold himself or itself out as being engaged in the business of installing, repairing, or offering maintenance for security systems, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such business, unless licensed for such purpose as provided in sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine of this chapter and section three of chapter one hundred and forty-one. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Nothing in this section shall apply either to the work of companies subject to regulation by the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable and incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity in installing, maintaining or repairing wires, apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances used by such companies and necessary for, or incident to, their business, whether or not such wires, conduits, apparatus, fixtures or other appliances are on its own premises; or the work in connection with the installation, construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of telephone equipment or computer systems by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications or information systems industry.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order
Section 1 - Definitions and Duties of Commissioner and Division of Professional Licensure
Section 2 - Inspectors; Powers and Duties; Appointment as Special State Police
Section 3 - Rewards or Gifts for Services; Failure to Perform Duties
Section 8 - County Police; Appointment; Badge; Powers
Section 8a - Carrying Police Weapons and Equipment
Section 10f - Parking Control Officers
Section 11 - Cities Authorized to Establish Police Force; Appointments to Force
Section 12 - Number of Members
Section 13 - Assignment to Duty; Powers and Duties; Compensation
Section 13b - Reserve Police Forces in Cities; Appointments From Civil Service Eligible List
Section 13c - Reserve Police Forces in Towns; Appointments From Civil Service Eligible List
Section 14 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Thirty
Section 15 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Fifteen
Section 16 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Eight
Section 16a - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Seven
Section 16b - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Six
Section 16c - Five Day Weeks; Vote of Voters; Petition Question on Ballot
Section 17a - Additional Days Off or Pay
Section 17c - Time Off or Pay for Overtime Duty
Section 17d - Annual Convention of Massachusetts Police Association
Section 17e - Overtime Compensation Upon Discharge, Resignation, Retirement or Death
Section 17f - Police Chiefs; Working on Holidays; Additional Pay
Section 17g - Five Day Forty-Hour Week; Overtime Pay
Section 18 - Police Stations for Detention of Women; Appointment of Matrons
Section 20 - Removal of Women to Nearest Station With Matron; Jurisdiction
Section 21 - ''police Station'' and ''station'' Defined
Section 23 - Necessity of Private Detective License; Exceptions
Section 24 - Applications; Qualifications of Applicants
Section 26 - License Fees; Bond
Section 27 - Employment to Determine Labor Conditions or Disseminate Propaganda; Penalty
Section 28 - Assistants; Employment; Divulgence of Information or False Report; Penalty
Section 29 - Badges, Identification Cards, Weapons, Equipment and Vehicles
Section 29a - Daily Records Concerning Guards Carrying Guns Required
Section 30 - Prohibited Acts; Penalty
Section 39 - Ages of Contestants and Persons Admitted to Matches
Section 39b - Insurance on Contestants
Section 41 - Number of Persons Admitted; Limitation
Section 42 - Revocation or Suspension of License; Administrative Penalty
Section 43 - Financial Interest of Licensee in Boxer; Prepayment of Contestant
Section 44 - Authority of Commission to Summon Witnesses
Section 45 - Enjoining Unlicensed or Illegal Matches
Section 46 - Rules and Regulations; Special Permits; Annual Report
Section 47 - Distribution to Towns of Money Received by Commonwealth
Section 47a - Prohibition of Licensed Event by Municipality; Notice of Exercise of Municipal Option
Section 51 - Statutes Not Applicable to Matches or Exhibitions
Section 56 - Sale of Power Lawn Mowers; Safety Devices Required; Rules and Regulations; Penalty
Section 57 - Installation, Repair or Maintenance of Security Systems; Licensure; Exceptions
Section 58 - Application for License; Filing; Contents; Proof of Qualifications
Section 59 - Issuance of License; Effect of Felony Conviction; Term; Contents; Renewal