For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM BOX. A device which is directly connected to the Public Safety Department dispatch board.
ALARM BUSINESS. The business of any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system.
ALARM DIALER. A device which mechanically or electronically places telephone calls to the Public Safety Department upon activation.
ALARM SYSTEM. Any device or piece of equipment or any assembly of equipment and devices (other than an alarm dialer or alarm box as herein defined) designed or arranged to signal visibly, audibly, electronically, mechanically or by any combination of these methods the presence of a hazard to which the Public Safety Department is expected to respond.
ALARM USER. Any person, whether owner, occupant or tenant, upon whose premises an alarm system is maintained or operated within the city.
FALSE ALARM. Any activation of an alarm system eliciting a response by Public Safety Department personnel where an emergency situation does not in fact exist. A FALSE ALARM includes, but is not limited to, the improper activation of an alarm system through a mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the user of an alarm system or of his or her employee or agent; but does not include an alarm caused by violent conditions of nature, interruption of electrical or telephonic service to the alarm user, or by a third party not within the control of the alarm user or alarm business, or by other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm user or alarm business.
(Prior Code, § 9.601) (Ord. effective 11-18-1985)