In this chapter:
(a) "Alarm Administrator" means a person or persons designated by the Chief to administer, control and review alarm application, permits, and false alarm notifications.
(b) "Alarm notification" means a notification intended to summon the police or fire department, which is designated either to be initiated purposely by a person or by an alarm system that responds to a stimulus characteristics of unauthorized intrusion. At the discretion of the Alarm Administrator, multiple false alarm notifications in a 24-hour period of time may be counted as only one F.A.N.
(c) "Alarm site" means a single premise or location served by an alarm system or systems.
(d) "Alarm systems" means a device or system that emits, transmits or relays a signal intended to summon, or that would reasonably be expected to summon, police services of the city, including but not limited to local alarms. Alarm system does not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a vehicle unless the vehicle is permanently located at a site; nor
(2) An alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that does not have a local alarm.
(e) "Chief” means the chief of police or authorized representatives.
(f) "Emergency departments" as used herein are the Heath Police and Fire Departments.
(g) "False alarm notification" (F.A.N.) means an alarm notification to the police or fire department, when the responding officer or fire department finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense. Excluded from this definition are:
(1) Alarms occurring during electrical storms, hurricane, tornado, blizzards, and acts of God; or,
(2) The intermittent disruption or disruption of the telephone circuits beyond the control of the alarm company and/or alarm user; or,
(3) Electrical power disruption or failure; or,
(4) Alarms caused by a failure of the equipment at the communications center.
(h) "Local alarm" means an alarm system that emits a signal at an alarm site that is audible or visible from the exterior of a structure.
(i) "Permit holder" means the person designated in the application as required in Section 771.03(c)(l) who is responsible for responding to alarms and giving access to the site, and who is responsible for proper maintenance and operation of the alarm system.
(j) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization or similar entity.
(k) "Special trunkline" means a telephone line leading into the communications center of the police department that is for the primary purpose of receiving emergency messages that originate from automatic protection devices and are transmitted directly or through an alarm monitoring company.
(Ord. 29-2022. Passed 5-2-22.)