A Terms which are not defined in this chapter shall have their ordinarily accepted meanings or such as the context may imply.
B. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense, words in plural include the singular and words in the singular include the plural. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not directory.
C. For the purpose of this chapter, each of the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given below.
ALARM CERTIFICATE ADMINISTRATOR: | A person supervised and designated by the Chief of Police to administer, control and review intrusion alarm applications, certificates and alarm dispatch requests. |
ALARM INDUSTRY BUSINESS: | Any entity having obtained a license pursuant to the provisions of the Alarm Industry Act of the State of Oklahoma who sells, leases, maintains, services, repairs, alters, replaces, moves, installs or monitors any intrusion alarm system. |
ALARM SITE: | A single premise or location served by a single intrusion alarm system. |
CERTIFICATE: | A valid first response certificate that is not under suspension or revocation. |
CERTIFICATE YEAR: | One (1) year from the date of issuance of a first response certificate. |
CHIEF OF POLICE: | The duly appointed, qualified or acting Chief of Police of the City of Catoosa or his authorized representative. |
COMMERCIAL ALARM USER: | Shall mean and include the person or persons, over the age of eighteen (18) owning, leasing, or managing the commercial property or any business where an alarm system is located. |
DURESS ALARM: | A silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a crisis situation requiring police response. |
FALSE ALARM DISPATCH: | An intrusion alarm dispatch request when the responding officer finds no evidence of criminal activity after having completed an investigation of the location. An intrusion alarm dispatch request that is canceled by the alarm user or the alarm industry business prior to the time an officer reaches the location shall not be considered a false alarm dispatch. Any intrusion alarm response that is first designated as a false alarm dispatch but where the alarm user later shows convincing evidence of criminal activity to the alarm certificate administrator and files a police report, shall, subject to the judgment of the alarm certificate administrator, be amended to not be recorded as a false alarm dispatch. |
FIRST RESPONSE: | The police receive an intrusion alarm dispatch request and elect to provide intrusion alarm response. |
FIRST RESPONSE CERTIFICATE: | A certificate issued to an alarm user who has met all requirements of this chapter. Issuance shall not create any property right in the renewal, reinstatement or continued unsuspended or unrevoked status of a certificate. |
HOLDUP ALARM: | A silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a robbery in progress. |
INTRUSION ALARM DISPATCH REQUEST: | A notification to the City of Catoosa Police Department from an alarm industry business that an intrusion alarm system has activated. |
INTRUSION ALARM RESPONSE: | An actual police response to the location of an intrusion alarm system resulting from an intrusion alarm dispatch request. |
INTRUSION ALARM SYSTEM: | Any single assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system. A single intrusion alarm system shall be contained at one (1) physical address and able to be activated independently of any other system. This definition shall not be construed as to apply to duress alarms; vehicle alarms; any alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premise that does not have a sounding device that can be heard on the exterior of the premise; or personal alarms. |
MONITORING: | The process by which an alarm industry business receives signals from intrusion alarm systems and relays an intrusion alarm dispatch request to the City of Catoosa for the purpose of summoning police response to the alarm site. |
PERSON: | Every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation. |
POLICE: | Any or all sworn officers of the City of Catoosa Police Department. |
RESIDENTIAL ALARM USER: | Shall mean and include the person or persons, over the age of eighteen (18), owning or leasing the residential property where an intrusion alarm system is located. |
SECONDARY RESPONSE: | The police receive an intrusion alarm dispatch request but elect not to provide intrusion alarm response until after the alarm industry business has provided its own alarm response to the alarm site and has determined evidence of actual or attempted criminal activity. |
VERIFY: | An attempt by an alarm industry business to contact the alarm site by telephonic or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a person is made, prior to an intrusion alarm dispatch request, in an attempt to avoid a false alarm dispatch. (Ord. 2023-437-C, 5-8-2023) |