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Gov. Hochul Signs New Legislation, amending Right to Repair Bill, Providing Exemptions for Security Devices and Alarm Systems

New York State became one of the first in the country to enact a “right to repair” law.  The Digital Fair Repair Act is set to go into effect on July 1, 2023.  New York’s regulation requires manufacturers to provide owners and independent repair shops the manuals, parts, diagnostics and diagrams necessary to repair consumer devices. Read the full Chapter amendment below.

PPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation

January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.

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