For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, the following words and phrases as used in this chapter are defined as follows.
(A) "Alarm agent" means the owner or employee of an alarm business.
(B) "Alarm business" means any person, partnership, corporation or other entity that sells, leases, maintains, installs, services, repairs, replaces, alters, removes, moves or monitors a police alarm system in or on any building, place or premises within the city. A person, partnership, corporation or other entity engaged solely in the business of selling police alarm systems is not an "alarm business."
(C) "Alarm signal" means anything perceptible which could reasonably be interpreted as a communication of the existence of the unauthorized entry on a premises, the commission of an unlawful act or the occurrence of a fire or other emergency to which the Police or Fire Department is reasonably expected to respond.
(D) “Alarm user" means any person whose business, place or premises has a police or fire alarm system, whether or not monitored by a central monitoring system.
(E) "Central monitoring system" means a system that automatically receives, records, maintains and supervises alarm signals at a central location by observers or operators who are required, upon receipt of an alarm signal, to notify the Police or Fire Department.
(F) "Chief” means the Fire Chief or the Chief of Police, whichever is appropriate.
(G) "False alarm" means an alarm signal eliciting an emergency response from the Police or Fire Department when a situation requiring such response does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent natural conditions or other extraordinary circumstances that would activate an alarm system in reasonably good working condition.
(H) "Fire alarm system" means any device designed to detect and to signal the occurrence of a fire or other emergency to which the Fire Department is reasonably expected to respond.
(I) "Fire Department," "fire service personnel" or "Fire Chief” means the Fire Chief of the city and designated personnel of the City Fire Department.
(J) "Non-priority response" means a response by the police which does not supersede any other response and which is predicated upon the availability of personnel.
(K) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
(L) "The Police" or "Chief of Police" means the Chief of Police of the city, his or her officers and designated employees.
(M) “Police alarm system" means any device designed to detect and to signal the unauthorized entry on a premises, the commission of an unlawful act or the occurrence of any other emergency to which the police are reasonably expected to respond.
(`78 Code, § 8.30.020.) (Ord. 1793 § 1 (part), 1986.)