Section 69-M. License required

1.  On and after October first, nineteen
  hundred  ninety-two,  no  person  shall  engage  in  the   business   of
  installing,  servicing  or maintaining security or fire alarm systems or
  hold himself out as being able so to do unless he is  licensed  therefor
  pursuant  to  this  article.    Nothing  herein  shall prohibit a person
  licensed  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  article  from
  employing  individuals  to  assist  in  the  installation,  servicing or
  maintaining of security or fire alarm systems,  provided  such  licensee
  issues  identification  cards  on  a form prescribed by the secretary of
  state to each unlicensed individual.
    2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  a license shall not be required of a person to engage in the business of
  installing,  servicing  or maintaining security or fire alarm systems if
  such an alarm system is to be installed in a motor vehicle, water vessel
  or  aircraft  or  is  a   battery-operated   smoke   detection   device.
  Furthermore,  a  property  owner  or proprietor who purchases or owns an
  alarm system to be installed by him or his employees onto  his  property
  or  place  of  business  shall  not  fall  under  the provisions of this
  article.