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SENATE BILL NO. 1160
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance
on January 31, 2007)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Quayle)
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-911 of the Code of Virginia, relating to a revenue source for the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 15.2-911 of the Code of Virginia is amended as follows:

§ 15.2-911. Regulation of alarm company operators.

A. Any locality may by ordinance regulate the installation and maintenance of alarm systems operated by alarm company operators.

B. As used in this section, an "alarm company operator" means and includes any business operated for profit, engaged in the installation, maintenance, alteration, or servicing of alarm systems or which responds to such alarm systems. Such term, however, shall not include alarm systems maintained by governmental agencies or departments, nor shall it include a business which merely sells from a fixed location or manufactures alarm systems unless such business services, installs, monitors or responds to alarm systems at the protected premises.

C. All alarm company operators shall collect a fee of $1 per month, for all alarm systems as described in subsection D, for each alarm system monitored. All moneys collected shall be sent to the Comptroller of Virginia for deposit in the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund, established pursuant to Item 262B of Chapter 3 of the 2006 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.

CD. As used in this section, the term "alarm system" means an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police or firefighters are expected to respond. Such system may be installed, maintained, altered or serviced by an alarm company operator in both commercial and residential premises.