In this article:
(1) ALARM COMPANY means any person who sells, installs, services, or monitors an alarm system.
(2) ALARM NOTIFICATION means a notification from an alarm system that is:
(A) intended to summon the police; and
(B) designed to be initiated either:
(i) purposely by a person; or
(ii) automatically by a response to a stimulus characteristic of unauthorized intrusion.
(3) ALARM SITE means a single premises or location served by an alarm system or systems that are under the control of one person.
(4) ALARM SYSTEM means a device or system that emits, transmits, or relays a signal intended to summon, or that would reasonably be expected to summon the police services of the city. “Alarm system” includes, but is not limited to, local alarms. “Alarm system” does not include:
(A) an alarm installed on a vehicle, unless the vehicle is used for a habitation at a permanent site; or
(B) an alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that does not have a local alarm.
(5) CHIEF means the chief of police of the city or an authorized representative.
(6) CONVERSION means the transaction or process by which one alarm company begins monitoring an alarm system previously monitored by another alarm company.
(7) DURESS ALARM means the deliberate activation of a silent alarm by entering at a keypad a code that is different from the normal arm/disarm code, or by a separate deliberate act at another device.
(8) FALSE ALARM NOTIFICATION means:
(A) a burglar alarm notification to the police department from a commercial or residential alarm site, when the responding officer arrives within 30 minutes after receipt of the alarm notification and, upon inspection of the interior or exterior of the premises, finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense; or
(B) a holdup, panic, or duress alarm notification to the police department from a commercial or residential alarm site, when the responding officer arrives after receipt of the alarm notification and finds no evidence of a holdup, panic, or duress situation.
(9) HOLDUP ALARM means a silent alarm generated by the deliberate activation of a holdup device.
(10) KEYPAD means a device that allows control of an alarm system by the manual entering of a coded sequence of numbers or letters.
(11) LOCAL ALARM means an alarm system that emits a signal at an alarm site that is audible or visible from the exterior of a structure.
(12) MONITORING means the process by which an alarm company receives signals from an alarm system and relays an alarm notification to the police.
(13) ONE PLUS means a feature of an alarm system that allows the manual activation of a silent alarm signal by entering, at the keypad, a code that increases the last digit of the normal arm/disarm code by one.
(14) PANIC ALARM means an audible alarm generated by the deliberate activation of a panic device.
(15) PERMIT HOLDER means the person designated in the application as required in Section 15C-2(d)(1) who is responsible for responding to alarms and giving access to the site and who is also responsible for proper maintenance and operation of the alarm system and payment of fees.
(16) PERSON means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization, or similar entity. (Ord. Nos. 17586; 19854; 20112; 21026; 22038; 22571; 26200; 26919)