For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM AGENT. Any person who is employed, either directly or indirectly, by an alarm business whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, removing or installing on any building, place or premises, any alarm system.
ALARM BUSINESS. Any person engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, removing or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, removed or installed an alarm system in or on any building, place or premises.
ALARM SYSTEM. Any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which the Police Department or Fire Department is expected to respond.
AUDIBLE ALARM. A device designed for the detection of unauthorized entry on premises and when actuated, generates an audible sound on the premises.
EXCESSIVE FALSE ALARMS.
(1) Two or more alarms in any 30-day period; and
(2) Trouble status alarms shall not be counted in determining excessive false alarms.
FALSE ALARM. An alarm signal necessitating response by the Police Department where an emergency situation does not exist.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
PROPRIETOR ALARM. An alarm which is not serviced by an alarm business.
SUBSCRIBER. A person contracting with an alarm business for the leasing, servicing or maintaining of an alarm system.
TROUBLE STATUS ALARM. An alarm signal arising from the interruption of a telephone at a point between the protected location and the police or central receiving station.
(1992 Code, § 117.16)