Unless otherwise expressly stated in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings provided in this section:
(a) "Alarm system business" means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity, selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed, any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
(b) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, installed in or on any building, structure or facility, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry, fires, or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police or fire are expected to respond. "Alarm system" includes a private/local alarm system, as defined hereinafter, but does not include an automobile theft alarm system.
(c) "False alarm" means the activation of an alarm system or private/local alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, improper use or negligence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or private/local alarm system or of his employees or agents but does not include, for example, alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other similar violent conditions. An alarm shall be reported to the Communication Center as false if the responding police or fire personnel see no evidence of fire, smoke, robbery, burglary, vandalism, unauthorized intrusion or medical emergency, and deem that the alarm was due to mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, improper use or negligence.
(d) "Private/local alarm system" means any alarm system which activates only an audible signal within the proximity of the premises.
(Ord. 237-90. Passed 11-5-90.)