ALARM ADMINISTRATOR. A person or persons designated by the Chief of Police to administer, control and review alarm applications, alarm permits and alarm dispatch requests.
ALARM BUSINESS. Any person who sells, leases, maintains, services, repairs, alters, replaces, moves, installs or monitors an alarm system in an alarm site.
ALARM DISPATCH REQUEST. A notification to the police by the alarm business that an alarm, either manual or automatic, has been activated at a particular alarm site.
ALARM PERMIT or PERMIT. A certificate, license, permit, registration or other form of permission from the ALARM ADMINISTRATOR that authorizes a person to operate an ALARM SYSTEM at an ALARM SITE.
ALARM SITE. A single premises or location served by an alarm system or systems. Each tenancy, if served by a separate alarm system in a multi-tenant building or complex, shall be considered a separate alarm site.
ALARM SYSTEM. A device or system that transmits or relays a signal to summon emergency services. Alarm system does not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a vehicle unless the vehicle is permanently located at a site; or
(2) An unmonitored alarm system that does not cause an alarm dispatch request requiring Police Department or Fire Department response.
ALARM USER. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity which uses an alarm system at its alarm site.
CHIEF. The Chief of Police of the city or an authorized representative.
CONVERSION. The transaction or process by which one alarm business begins monitoring of an alarm system previously monitored by another alarm business.
DURESS ALARM. A silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a crisis situation, including but not limited to a robbery in progress, requiring police response.
FALSE ALARM DISPATCH. An alarm dispatch request to the police department, when the responding officer finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after having responded within 30 minutes of the alarm notification and determining from an inspection of the interior or exterior of the premises that the alarm was false. An alarm dispatch request that is canceled by the alarm business or the alarm user prior to the time the responding officer reaches the alarm site shall not be considered a false alarm dispatch. An alarm that is found to be caused by the weather, earthquake or other event that cannot be foreseen or prevented shall not be considered a FALSE ALARM DISPATCH.
MONITORING. The process by which an alarm business receives signals from alarm systems and relays an alarm dispatch request to the city for the purpose of summoning police response to the alarm site.
PERSON. An individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization or similar entity.
VERIFY. An attempt by the alarm business, or its representative, to contact the alarm site by telephonic or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a person is made, before requesting a police dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request.
VIDEO VERIFICATION ALARM. A monitored alarm system in which a trained central station operator uses live video to confirm an intrusion before calling police.
(Ord. 6-2001-40, passed 6-12-01; Am. Ord. 09-2019-56, passed 9-24-19; Am. Ord. 07-2021-38, passed 7-27-21)