ALARM AGENT: Any person who is employed by an alarm business, either directly or indirectly, whose duties include selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing on or in any building, structure or facility, any alarm system. Exemption: The provisions of this chapter do not apply to a person who engages in the manufacture or sale of an alarm system from a fixed location and who neither visits the location where the alarm system is to be installed, nor designs the scheme for physical location and installation of the alarm system in a specific location.
ALARM BUSINESS: The business by any individual, partnership or corporation or other entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, inspecting, servicing, repairing, moving or installing any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility. Exemption: Said definition shall not apply to persons engaged solely in the manufacture or sale of alarm system components from a fixed location, and who do not install, alter, maintain, service or plan the alarm system for a specific location.
ALARM SYSTEM: Any mechanical or electrical device which is designed or used for the detection of fire or its byproducts in a building, structure or facility or for alerting others of a fire hazard within a building, structure or facility, or both; and which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when actuated and to which the fire department personnel are expected to respond. In this chapter, the term "alarm system" shall include the terms "audible alarm", "automatic dialing device" and "fire alarm system" as those terms are hereinafter defined. Exemption: The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to those detection devices and systems that are not monitored by an alarm business.
ANSWERING SERVICE: A telephone answering business providing among its services receiving, on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from alarm systems, and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice over a signal channel circuit to the communications center of the police and fire departments.
APPELLANT: A person who perfects an appeal pursuant to this chapter.
AUDIBLE ALARM: A device designed for the detection of fire or its byproducts on premises, which generates an audible sound on the premises when it is actuated. This audible alarm may or may not be combined with a method of transmitting a signal to a remote point. Exemption: The provisions of this chapter are not applicable to audible alarms affixed to motor vehicles.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE: An alarm system, which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message or coded signal indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect.
CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM: A system or group of systems, usually operated from its customers by a person, in which the operations of protected circuits and devices are transmitted to, recorded in, maintained and supervised from a central station having trained operators and guards in attendance at all times, that have the duty to take appropriate action upon receipt of a signal or message including the relaying of messages by a signal channel circuit to the communications center of the police and fire departments.
CITY: The city of East Moline or its authorized employees or agents.
FALSE ALARM: The intentional or unintentional 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 which necessitates response by the East Moline fire department where an actual fire or emergency does not exist. Such terminology does not include, for example, alarms caused by tornados, earthquakes or other violent conditions.
FIRE CHIEF: The chief of the fire department of the city of East Moline, or his authorized representative.
MODIFIED CENTRAL STATION: An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits and relay the message by a "signal channel circuit" to the communications center of the police and fire departments.
NUISANCE ALARM: An alarm caused by mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or lack of proper maintenance.
PRIMARY TRUNK LINE: A telephone line leading into the communications center of the police and fire departments, that is for the purpose of handling emergency calls on a person to person basis, and which line is identified by a specific listing among the emergency numbers in a telephone directory issued by the telephone company serving the city.
PROTECTED PREMISES: That part of a building, structure or facility to which protection is afforded by an alarm system.
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. (Ord. 07-10, 8-6-2007)