As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm Administrator" means the employee of the Police Department of the Village whose responsibility it is to coordinate the administration and documentation of alarm businesses and the performance of alarm systems as the same relate to the effective enforcement of this chapter.
(b) "Alarm business" means the business, by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity, of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
(c) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which Police, Fire or Rescue personnel are expected to respond.
(d) "Alarm user" means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in possession or control of any building, structure or facility where an alarm system is maintained.
(e) "False alarm" is an emergency alarm activated by inadvertence, negligence or unintentional acts to which the Village Police Department responds, including malfunction of the alarm system. The definition excludes false alarms caused by malfunctions of the indicator at the police station; malfunction, testing or repairing of the normal power supply source for alarms installed on residential subdivisions; acts of God, such as earthquake, flood, windstorm, thunder or lightning; an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence; or the user acting under a sincere belief that a need exists to call the Police Department.
(f) "Local alarms" means those alarms which activate an audible signal within the proximity of the premises.
(Ord. 1989-29. Passed 7-12-89.)