(A) A privately owned fire alarm box (master box) at which an alarm may be received and electrically conveyed to the Communication Center of the city may be installed if, and only if, the installation and connection to the central fire alarm system of the city is approved by the Fire Department of the city.
(B) These alarm boxes may be automatically activated by heat, smoke or a sprinkling system or may be of another type specified by the Elkhart Fire Department. The boxes may also be manually activated. The alarm box may be a master box into which signals may be relayed from other boxes on the owner’s or occupant’s premises, or may, with special permission granted only for proper cause, be a single-station alarm system without a master box between the signal system and the city system.
(C) A master box is that part of the alarm system of an owner’s or occupant’s premises which, from the standpoint of electrical circuitry, is the interface between the owner’s system and the city system, and ordinarily will be a box which receives and transmits alarms from other signal boxes into the city system. In some cases, however, the interface will not be a box receiving signals from substations, but will be the box at which the original signal is transmitted without going through a second box before reaching the city system, and, for purposes of §§ 94.085 through 94.092, the signal box is considered a master box.
(1979 Code, § 94.45) (Ord. 3370, passed 12-9-1981)