For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM CONDITIONS. Alarms activated by unlawful violations of a user's property or other violations that the systems were designed to protect against, acts of God, other violent conditions, or by outside agencies or external forces not under the control of the owner, lessee, or his or her employee or agent.
ALARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER. Any person, firm or corporation that sells, leases or installs automatic protection devices or signaling devices.
ALARM SYSTEM. An assembly of equipment and devices, arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which the Police and/or Fire Department are expected to respond.
ALARM USER. Any person on whose premise an alarm system is maintained within the unincorporated limits of the county. Included are those systems which employ an audible signal emitting sounds or a flashing light or beacon designed to alert persons outside the premise.
COUNTY. County of Lake, Indiana.
DIRECT LINE. A telephone line leading directly into the communications center of the County Police Department that is for use only to report signals upon a person-to-person basis.
FALSE ALARM. The activation of an alarm system caused by improper operation, negligence of the owner or lessee or his or her employee or agent. An act, intentional or unintentional, of someone other than an intruder, including alarms caused by malfunction of the alarm, device alarm system or its
related equipment. The term
FALSE ALARM shall not include alarms created by malfunction of the Police Department equipment, activations caused by public utility interruptions, activations caused by a natural disaster, or activation caused by testing or repair of an alarm system or device provided that the Police Department has been notified prior to the commencement of the tests or repairs.
LOCAL ALARMS. A signaling system which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated in or on the premises within which the system is installed.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or society, but such term does not include the county or lake.
SHERIFF. The Sheriff of Lake County, or his or her authorized representative.
(Prior Code, § 96.20) (Ord. 1111B, passed 3-10-1992; Ord. 1111B-1, passed 10-12-1993)