The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section.
(a) “Alarm User License” means a license issued by the Village allowing the operation of an alarm system within the Village.
(b) “Alarm system” means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal audibly, visibly or electronically, to a location outside the structures protected by the system, or to a monitoring station which in turn notifies the appropriate agency, the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention to which the Police Department or the Fire Department is expected to respond, but shall not include alarms installed in motor vehicles.
(c) “Alarm user” means the person, partnership, corporation or any other entity in control of any building, structure, or facility, or any portion thereof, which is intended to be protected by an alarm system.
(d) “Audible alarm” means any alarm system which is designed to emit its signal by bell, whistle, siren, or other device to the immediate area near the structure which it protects. An audible alarm shall be considered as such whether or not it transmits a signal to an additional location.
(e) “Automatic dialer” means any alarm system which is designed to emit its signal directly to the Police Department or the Fire Department by means of dialing a telephone number at either the Police Department or Fire Department or both, and giving a taped recorded message or synthesized voice message intended to elicit a response.
(f) “False alarm” means an alarm system signal or message eliciting an urgent response by the Police Department or the Fire Department when a situation requiring such response by the police or fire does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by unusually violent conditions of nature, nor does it include other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm user, nor does it include activations subject to prosecution under Section 701.09.
(1) An alarm which has been activated as a result of testing or repair shall not be considered as a false alarm if prior notification has been given the day of such repairs or test to the agency which the alarm would signal.
(2) An alarm which has been activated shall not be considered as a false alarm if the responding public safety division receives a request to cancel. Such request must be made to the same location as the request for service and must be received prior to the arrival of the first responding unit.
(Ord. 00-40. Passed 11-6-00.)