For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Alarm agent" means any person who is employed by an alarm business, either directly or indirectly, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system on any building, place or premises.
(b) "Alarm business" means any person engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved, or installed an alarm system in or on any building, place, or premises.
(c) "Alarm system" means any device designed for the detection of a fire or an unauthorized entry on premises or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act or both, and which when activated emits a sound, or transmits a signal or message.
(d) "Audible alarm" means a device designed for the detection of fire or an unauthorized entry on premises, and which when activated, generates an audible sound on the premises.
(e) "False alarm" means an alarm signal necessitating response by the City Police Department where an emergency situation does not exist.
(f) "Proprietor alarm" means an alarm which is not owned or serviced by an alarm business.
(g) "Subscriber" means a person contracting with an alarm business for the leasing, servicing or maintaining of an alarm system.
(Ord. 85-22. Passed 9-12-85.)