The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this article:
ALARM AGENT: Any person who is employed by an alarm business, either directly or indirectly, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing on any building, place or premises any alarm system.
ALARM BUSINESS: Any person who is engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, monitoring, moving, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, monitored, moved or installed an alarm system in or on any building, place or premises.
ALARM DISPATCH REQUEST: A notification to police or fire personnel that an alarm system has been activated.
ALARM SYSTEM: An assembly of equipment and devices designed for the detection of smoke, fire, or an unauthorized entry on premises or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act, which device, when actuated, emits a sound beyond the business premises or residential unit or dwelling protected by such device or transmits a signal or message to another location. "Alarm system" includes, without limitation, the following: audible alarms; automatic dialing systems; commercial alarms; intrusion alarm systems; fire alarm systems; manual holdup alarm systems; and robbery alarm systems.
AUDIBLE ALARM: An alarm system that, when activated, emits an audible sound designed to be heard at or about the site where the alarm system is installed.
AUTOMATIC DIALING SYSTEM: An alarm system that automatically sends over telephone lines a message or signal indicating the existence of an emergency situation.
CENTRAL STATION: A facility to which alarm systems are connected, where operators supervise the circuits on a continuous basis, and where there is a subsequent relaying of messages by a live voice to the police or fire department.
COMMERCIAL ALARM: An alarm system installed on nonresidential premises.
FALSE ALARM: An alarm dispatch request as to which responding police or fire personnel find no evidence of a fire, criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after completing an investigation of alarm site. A false alarm does not include the activation of an alarm system due to tornadoes, earthquakes, or other violent, uncontrollable acts of nature.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: The city of Beverly Hills fire department.
INTRUSION ALARM SYSTEM: An alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system.
MANUAL HOLDUP ALARM SYSTEM: An alarm system in which the signal transmission is initiated by the direct action of the person attacked or by an observer of the attack.
POLICE DEPARTMENT: The city of Beverly Hills police department.
ROBBERY ALARM SYSTEM: An alarm system signaling a robbery or attempted robbery or other crime in progress, which involves potentially serious bodily injury or death. For purposes of this definition, a robbery alarm system includes duress, panic, holdup and robbery in progress alarms.
SUBSCRIBER: Any person that owns, leases, rents, uses an alarm system or makes available for use by his agents, employees, representative or family, an alarm system. (Ord. 10-O-2591, eff. 1-1-2011)