Record of Completion is Neccessary

A local alarm New York City company  didn’t have any use for the Record of Completion (ROC) form in their NYC office since their building code states they don’t accept the ROC the NFPA 72 2010 edition illustrates in Chapter 10.
It seems the local company found he could get by with as little effort as possible. While  correct in noting that the city doesn’t want the official NFPA Record of Completion submitted to the Department of Buildings, that doesn’t leave them off the hook for the other AHJs involved. By claiming that it isn’t used in his NYC alarm company branch because NYC doesn’t want it is a bit simplistic. The fact remains—he is responsible for complying with NFPA 72, Section 10.18.2.1.2.3. “A preliminary copy of the record of completion shall be given to the system owner and, if requested, to other authorities having jurisdiction after completion of the installation wiring tests.” Simply because it is not “requested” by NYC doesn’t excuse him from compliance. I’m surprised he has not run into a hotel chain or insurance company requiring this document. It should be completed because it is a signed/witnessed affidavit which states that your code-compliant fire alarm system was turned over to the building owner in perfect working order.
Thanks To Greg Kessinger for this GREAT info!

HIRING

Although it would be a great teaching opportunity for educating
prospective alarm license candidates:
NY DOS License Law 6D requires all persons who have knowledge of Alarm install and programming info for a customer to have either a valid license or be properly documented and fingerprinted as an employee. It is a license violation to "help", or allow a non- licensed, non- employee to work on your installation!

Radio

Here we go again!
FCC has announced that GSM is history in 2016!
G3 will be our next best option for alarm reporting over
Radio