(a) The purpose of this Article is to provide minimum standards and regulations applicable to burglar and holdup alarm systems and alarms users as defined in this Article.
(b) For the purpose of this Article, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
(1) Alarm system. An assembly of equipment and devices (or a single device such as a solid state unit which plugs directly into a 110 volt AC line) arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police are expected to respond. In this Article, the term alarm system shall include the terms automatic holdup alarm systems, burglar alarm systems, holdup alarm systems and manual holdup alarm systems. Fire alarm systems and alarm systems which monitor temperature, humidity, or any other condition not directly related to the detection of an unauthorized intrusion into a premises or an attempted robbery at a premises are specifically excluded from the provisions of this Article.
(2) Alarm user. Any person on whose premises an alarm system is maintained within the Village except for alarm systems on motor vehicles or proprietary systems. If, however, an alarm system on a motor vehicle is connected with an alarm system at a premises (other than a proprietary system) the person using such system is an alarm user. Also excluded from this definition and from the coverage of this Article are persons who use alarm systems to alert or signal persons within the premises in which the alarm system is located of an attempted unauthorized intrusion or holdup attempt. If such a system, however, employs an audible signal emitting sounds or flashing light or beacon designed to signal persons outside the premises, such system shall be within the definition of alarm systems and shall be subject to this Article.
(3) Annunciator. The instrumentation on an alarm console at the receiving terminal of a signal line which through both visual and audible signals shows when an alarm device at a particular location has been activated or it may also indicate line trouble.
(4) Answering service. A telephone service providing, among its services, the service of receiving on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from alarm systems and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice to the communication center of the Police Department. (Ord. 0-84-04, 2-7-84)
(5) Automatic dialing device. An alarm system which automatically sends over telephone lines a prerecorded voice message indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect. (Ord. 0-88-24, 4-18-88)
(6) Central station. An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, and where guards are maintained continuously to investigate signals.
(7) Central station equipment. The signal receiving, recording or retransmitting equipment installed in the central station.
(8) Central station system. A system in which the operation of electrical protection circuits and devices are signaled automatically to, recorded in, maintained and supervised from a central station having trained operators and guards in attendance at all times.
(9) Direct connect. An alarm system which has the capability of transmitting system signals to and receiving them at an agency maintained by the local government; for example, a police communications center.
(10) Direct line. A telephone line leading directly from a central station to the communications center of the Police Department that is for use only to report emergency signals on a person-to-person basis.
(11) False alarm. The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his employees or agents. Such terminology does not include, for example, alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other catastrophic conditions.
(12) Holdup alarm system. An alarm system signaling a robbery or attempted robbery.
(13) Local alarm system. A signaling system which when activated causes an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated in or on the premises within which the system is installed.
(14) Manual holdup alarm system. An alarm system in which the signal transmission is initiated by the direct action of the person attacked or by an observer of the attack.
(15) Outside ringers. A signaling system which is audible outside the premises within which the system is installed.
(16) Person. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(17) Police Chief. The Chief of the Police Department of the Village of Deerfield, or his designated representative.
(18) Police or Police Department. The publicly supported Police Department of the Village of Deerfield or any authorized agent thereof.
(19) Primary trunkline. A telephone line leading directly into the communication center of the Police Department that is for the purpose of handling emergency calls on a person-to-person basis, and which is identified as such by a specific number included among the emergency numbers listed in the telephone directory issued by the telephone company and covering the service area within the Police Department's jurisdiction.
(20) Proprietary system. An alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory signals at a control center located within the protected premises, the control center being under the supervision of the proprietor of the protected premises. If a proprietary system includes a signal line connected directly or by means of an automatic dialing device to a police communications center, a central station, modified central station or an answering service, it thereby becomes an "alarm system" as defined in this Chapter.
(21) Subscriber. A person who buys and/or leases, or otherwise obtains an alarm signaling system and thereafter contracts with or hires an alarm business to monitor and/or service the alarm device.
(22) Telephone company. The utility that furnishes telephone services to the Village.
(23) Village. The Village of Deerfield, Illinois. (Ord. 0-84-04, 2-7-84; amd. Ord. 0-88-24, 4-18-88; Ord. 0-93-51, 10-4-93)