§ 1702.288 — NOTICE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO RECIPIENT OF ALARM SYSTEM SERVICES.

Texas § 1702.288

• Jurisdiction: Texas
• Code OC: Occupations Code

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Sec. 1702.288. NOTICE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO RECIPIENT OF ALARM SYSTEM SERVICES. (a) The commission shall adopt rules in accordance with this section that require a company license holder acting as an alarm systems company under this chapter to inform each of the license holder's clients that the client is entitled to receive a written contract for alarm system services that contains the client's fee arrangement and other relevant information about services to be rendered.
(b) The rules shall require that a written contract for alarm system services shall be furnished to a client in accordance with Subsection (a) not later than the seventh day after the date the client requests the written contract.
(c) The rules shall require that the written contract for services shall be dated and signed by the owner or manager of an alarm systems company or a person expressly authorized by the owner or manager to sign written contracts on behalf of the company.
(d) The rules shall require that, not later than the seventh day after the date of entering into a contract for services regulated by the department with another alarm systems company or alarm systems monitor, an alarm systems company shall:
(1) notify the recipient of those services of the name, address, and telephone number and individual to contact at the company that purchased the contract;
(2) notify the recipient of services at the time the contract is negotiated that another licensed company may provide any of the services requested by subcontracting or outsourcing those services; and
(3) if any of the services are subcontracted or outsourced to a licensed third party, notify the recipient of services, by mail, of the name, address, phone number, and license number of the company providing those services.
(e) The rules shall require that notice provided to a recipient of services under Subsection (d) shall:
(1) be mailed to the recipient in a written form that emphasizes the required information; and
(2) include stickers or other materials to be affixed to an alarm system indicating the alarm systems company's or alarm systems monitor's new telephone number.
(f) A company license holder acting as an alarm systems company does not have to provide the notice required under Subsection (d) if the contact information, including the address and the telephone numbers for the alarm systems company, has not changed.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 808 (S.B. 568 ), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2005. Amended by: Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1084 (H.B. 3433 ), Sec. 9, eff. June 14, 2013. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 595 (S.B. 616 ), Sec. 5.089, eff. September 1, 2019.