For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM BUSINESS. A business by any individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved, or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure, or facility.
ALARM SYSTEM. Any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity or a condition requiring urgent attention and to which the Police, Fire Department, or other first responder are expected to respond. This definition does not include fire detectors or audible alarms affixed to automobiles or other motor vehicles.
ALARM USER. A person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or other organization of any kind in control of any building, structure, or facility where an alarm system is maintained or activated.
CALL CENTERS. Any outside alarm call center with the correct information for a set alarm at a set location will be entered into the computer for either the Police or Fire Department to respond.
FALSE ALARM. Any signal request or similar event, the purpose of which is to alert or summon the Police or Fire Department assistance, but which is not in response to actual or threatened emergency or criminal activity. FALSE ALARMS include any communication, either directly or indirectly, to the Police or Fire Department either by a central station, intermediary, or signal device, which is in response to a signal or warning issued intentionally or accidentally; negligently or accidentally activated signals; signals which are the results of faulty, malfunctioning, or improperly installed or maintained equipment; and signals which are purposely, but improperly, activated to alert or summon the Police or Fire Department. FALSE ALARM shall not include signals activated by unusually severe weather conditions or other natural causes.
LICENSE DIVISION. The Records Division of the Police Department is authorized to issue permits and licenses and collect the fees for the permits and the licenses as provided in this chapter.
LOCAL ALARM. Those alarms which activate an audible signal within the proximity of a premises only.
PERMIT YEAR. A 12-month period, beginning June 1 and ending May 31 of each year.
RECORD SUPERVISOR. The employees of the Police Department’s Records Division will assume the responsibility to coordinate the administration and documentation of alarm business and alarm systems as it relates to the effective enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 110.02) (Ord. 4665, passed 3-23-1981; Am. Ord. 4767, passed 5-10-1982; Am. Ord. 4965, passed 7-22-1985; Am. Ord. 9169, passed 8-27-2012)