Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JAMES J. KENNEDY
District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)
Assemblyman JOE DANIELSEN
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Senator GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
Senator ROBERT W. SINGER
District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Pou
SYNOPSIS
Allows use of Internet website address in advertisements for purposes of communicating license numbers of burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmith businesses and professionals.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning advertisements for burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmith services and supplementing P.L.1997, c.305 (C.45:5A-23 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. An advertisement for services of a burglar alarm or fire alarm business or for the provision of locksmithing services in, but not limited to, classified directories, business cards, or professional stationary, or on, but not limited to, the Internet or television may use an Internet website address for the purposes of indicating to the public the license number of the business and the individual licensed to perform services as a burglar alarm or fire alarm licensee, or locksmith.
b. The listing of the license numbers of the business and licensed individual shall be located in a clear and conspicuous manner on the Internet website.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill is intended to modernize advertising requirements of the burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmith industries. Currently, licensed business in these industries are to include the license number of the business and any professional in advertisements. This bill allows burglar alarm, fire alarm, and locksmithing businesses to post an Internet website address in advertisements to direct consumers to in order indicate to the public the license number information of the business and its employed professionals. If an Internet website address is used in advertisements in lieu of the license numbers, the license number information is to be located in a clear and conspicuous manner.