As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm site" means the specific property or area of the premises upon or within which an alarm system is or is to be installed.
(b) "Alarm system" means any device used to detect or prevent burglary, theft, fire or any other such emergency situation, which, when activated, causes notification to be made directly or indirectly to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division, or any device designed primarily for the purpose of giving an audible and/or visual signal of an attempted or completed burglary, theft, fire or any other such emergency situation.
"Alarm system" shall not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a motor vehicle; or
(2) An alarm designed so that notification is not given to the Police Division or the Fire Division until after the occupant or an agent of the owner or lessee has checked the alarm site and determined that there is physical evidence at the site showing that the alarm was the result of criminal activity, fire or other emergency, and if a person who is able to grant access to the alarm site remains at such site until the Police Division or the Fire Division arrives, and such person grants access and renders such other assistance as he or she is able to give.
(c) "Alarm system business" means any business operated by a person for profit, which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing or responding to an alarm system, or which causes any of these activities to take place.
(d) "Automatic dialing device" means any device connected to an alarm system which automatically sends a prerecorded message or coded signal indicating the activation of the alarm system via telephone call to the Avon Police Division and/or Fire Division, the Lorain County 911 Center or the Cuyahoga County 911 Center.
(e) "Burglar alarm" means any device intended to prevent or detect an unauthorized entry or attempted unauthorized entry into the alarm site.
(f) "Central station" means that part of an alarm system business which intercepts signals indicating the activation of an alarm device and relays this information by live voice to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(g) "Chief of Police" means the duly appointed Chief of the Avon Police Division or his or her authorized representative.
(h) "False alarm" means any alarm system activation requiring a response from the Police Division and/or the Fire Division which was not the result of an emergency or threat of emergency of the kind for which the alarm system was designed to give notice.
(i) "Fifteen-minute shut-off" means an automatic device, associated with an alarm system, which automatically causes the audible portion of such alarm system to shut off and discontinue the emission of an audible signal after not more than fifteen minutes of continuous operation.
(j) "Fire alarm" means a functionally related group of devices that, when either manually or automatically activated, will sound audio or visual warning devices on or off the protected premises.
(k) "Fire Chief" means the duly appointed Chief of the Avon Fire Division or his or her authorized representative.
(l) "Hold-up alarm" means any alarm system activated by human actions as a result of a robbery or attempted robbery at the alarm site.
(m) "Local alarm" means any alarm system emitting audible or visual signals in, at or on the alarm site when activated and causing notification to be made either directly or indirectly to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(n) "Permit" means a certificate of authorization issued by the Safety Director or his or her designee to the person in control of the alarm site, which certificate authorizes the operation of an alarm system.
(o) "Permit holder" means the person to whom an alarm system permit is issued.
(p) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership or other legal entity.
(q) "Safety Director" means the Director of Public Safety of the City of Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, or the Mayor, when acting in that capacity.
(r) "Telephone answering service" means any business, other than an alarm system business or central station, which intercepts signals indicating the activation of an alarm system and which relays this information by live voice to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)