Whenever in this chapter the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
ALARM BUSINESS: Any business operated for profit, which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, or responding to a burglary or holdup alarm system or fire alarm, or which causes any of these activities to take place.
ALARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS: Any person, firm or corporation that sells, leases or installs signaling devices which, upon activation, either automatically or manually, will transmit an alarm.
ALARM SYSTEMS: Any signaling device which is electronically operated and which automatically sends visual and audible signals over a signal line to be registered by indicators at a monitor panel in a receiving terminal of the police department and fire department and/or alarm company's receiving location, or which sends, via telephone line to the police or fire department, a recorded message of a burglary, holdup or fire.
ALARM USER: Any person on whose premises an alarm system is maintained within the village.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE: An alarm system which automatically sends over telephone lines a prerecorded voice message indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the system is designed to detect.
DIRECT CONNECT: An alarm system which has the capability of transmitting system signals to and receiving them at an agency maintained by the police communications center.
DIRECT LINE: A telephone line leading directly from a central station to the communications center of the police department or fire department that is for use only to report emergency signals on a person to person basis.
EMERGENCY ALARM ADMINISTRATOR: An employee of the village, designated by the village manager, whose responsibility it is to coordinate the administration and documentation of alarm businesses and system performance as it relates to the effective enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
FALSE ALARM: The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his employee or agents. "False alarm" does not include alarm signals activated by violent conditions of nature, telephone line interruptions, acts of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm business installer or alarm user.
LOCAL ALARM SYSTEM: One which produces an audible signal at the premises protected.
PROPRIETARY SYSTEM: An alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory signals at a control center located within protected premises, the control center being under the supervision of the proprietor of the protected premises. If a "proprietary system" includes a signal line connected directly or by means of an automatic dialing device to a police communications center, a central station, modified central station or an answering service, it thereby becomes an "alarm system" as defined in this section.
RECEIVING AGENCY (CENTRAL STATION): An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where trained and experienced personnel are in attendance at all times to supervise the circuits and investigate signals.
SINGLE STATION SMOKE DETECTOR: An assembly incorporating the smoke detector control equipment and the alarm sounding device in one circuit operated from a power supply either in the unit or at the point of installation.
VILLAGE ALARM CONTRACTOR: The alarm company contracted by the village for the installation and maintenance of the police or fire department monitoring systems. (1965 Code § 9-15-1; amd. 2009 Code)