KEN KIRSCHENBAUM, ESQ
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fire alarm passwords and release form / Classes for NY Alarm License
November 1, 2017
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fire alarm passwords and release form
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Ken
    We installed a non Approved fire system  and the customer signed our standard Commercial Security Lease agreement.. The agreement specifies that it is a non Approved fire system.  The customer is requesting to have the program password. 
    I do not mind giving to him the program password provided the client signs a waiver holding us harmless for all problems that may arise if the client does something to the program.  Do you have a waiver set up for the client to sign or can you create one if you do not have one. 
    The client is threatening us if we don't release the password.
    Let me know
Thanks
Warren
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Response
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    The only state I know of that requires the alarm company to turnover the password to a fire alarm system is Texas and then only if the subscriber signs a release.  I can certainly provide a release form if you want to turnover the password and any other programming information.  
    You used the wrong contract with this subscriber because you used a Security contract, not a fire contract.  Whether you are going to install a AHJ compliant fire alarm system [which should always be your first and maybe only choice] or as you refer to it, "a non Approved" fire alarm system, use the Commercial Fire All in One.  That form actually has a provision that is invoked when the system is not code compliant.  
    The Commercial Fire All in One shares a common provision found in all the Standard Form All in One Agreements.  Not only does the alarm company continue to own the password, it continues to own all programming as its intellectual property.  Only if the subscriber completes the contract and it comes to an end is the alarm company required to either disclose the password or default the system to the manufacturer's default code.  Using the default code is necessary when the alarm company uses its own unique password on all of its systems.  Perhaps not the best option.
    Your release should cover you the minute you turn over the password, not only if the subscriber decides to use the password to modify the system.  Why get into a dispute whether the subscriber messed with the system.  Having demanded the password the subscriber has evinced its intention to assume control of the system.  With that control comes total responsibility.
    Considering that you should not have gotten involved with a non-compliant fire alarm system in the first place, I think you should get rid of this subscriber as soon as you can.  I suggest a standard general release and then don't look back.
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