For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM EQUIPMENT INSTALLER. Any person, firm, or corporation, including employees, agents, and independent contractors, who install, maintain, repair, alter, replace, or service any alarm equipment.
ALARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER. Any person, firm, or corporation, including employees, agents, and independent contractors who supply, sell, lease, or rent any alarm equipment.
ALARM MONITORING SERVICE. Any person, firm, or corporation, including employees, agents, and independent contractors in the business of operating a service whereby persons receive messages from automatic signaling devices, report emergencies at stated locations, and relay such emergency messages to a communications center, including, but not limited to, the city’s law enforcement agency.
ALARM SYSTEM. A device or system of interconnected devices, including hardware and related accessories, designed to give warning of a fire, burglary, robbery, medical emergency, or other hazardous condition occurring on the protected premises.
ALARM USER. A person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, governmental unit, or organization of any kind in control or ownership of any building, structure, or facility where an alarm system is maintained and in operation.
AUTOMATIC SIGNALING DEVICE. An electrically or mechanically operated instrument that automatically signals or sends by any means, including, but not limited to, direct or indirect connection to regular telephone lines, a unique coded message from protected premises to a separate location upon receipt of a stimulus from a sensory detection apparatus. These devices include any device that activates any audible alarm or light signaling device attached to the interior or exterior of protected premises. This definition includes devices utilized to verify or confirm a signal generated by the protected premises.
COMMUNICATION CENTER. The facility where a public safety agency or agencies participate in dispatch or call transfer services, including receiving emergency transmissions and general information from the public to be dispatched to the respective entities utilizing the center.
DIRECT LINE. A special telephone line, unavailable for use by the public at-large, leading directly to the city’s law enforcement agency or communications center from a single, specific location and designed to be used only to report emergency messages and signals on a person-to-person basis.
FALSE ALARM. An activation of an alarm system which results in the dispatch of emergency personnel to the protected premises where emergency personnel are unable to discover any evidence of an emergency condition, but does not include a dispatch of emergency personnel pursuant to an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm use.
KEY. To utilize a telephone line for transmitting a message.
REGULAR PHONE LINE. A general telephone line leading to the city’s law enforcement agency, communications center, or alarm monitoring service available for use by the public at large.
SENSORY DETECTION DEVICE. A mechanical or electrical device that is part of any automatic signaling device which is designed for detection of any physical force or condition inherently characteristic of fire, unauthorized intrusion into or upon protected premises, or other emergency or hazardous condition, which results in the dispatch of emergency personnel to the protected premises.
(Ord. 181, passed 9-8-1992)