As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm business" means the 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.
(b) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of a criminal activity, a fire, a medical emergency or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which Municipal emergency services are expected to respond.
(c) "Alarm user" means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure, facility, premises or sub-unit thereof, where an alarm system is maintained.
(d) "False alarm" means the activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or the negligence or improper use or abuse by the owner or lessee or occupant or person in control of any property or space intended to be protected by an alarm system. Such terminology does not include, for example, alarm signals caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other similarly violent conditions or other conditions clearly beyond the control of the user, and does not include activation of an alarm system while the system is being tested to determine whether or not the system is in proper working order, pursuant to established procedures.
(f) "Local alarms" means those alarms which activate an audible signal within the proximity of the premises only. (Ord. 2013-26. Passed 3-20-13.)