For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM.
A system or group of systems, the operation of which is signaled to, recorded in, maintained and supervised from an approved central station, in which there are competent and experienced observers and operators in attendance at all times whose duty it shall be, upon receipt of a signal, to take such action as shall be required under the rules established for their guidance. Such systems are independently owned, controlled and operated by a person, firm or corporation whose principal business is the furnishing and maintaining of supervised protective signaling service and who has no interest in the protected properties.
LOCAL ALARM SYSTEM.
That system producing signals at one or more places on the premises served.
(Ord. 25-98, passed 3-17-1998)