For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM AGENT. Any person who is employed by an alarm business either directly or indirectly, whose duties include selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing on or in any building, structure, facility or grounds any alarm system.
ALARM BUSINESS. Any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity who in addition to
selling alarms systems also leases, maintains, services, repairs, alters, replaces, moves or installs any alarm system or causes to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure, facility or grounds.
ALARM SYSTEM. Any device used for the detection of an unauthorized entry or attempted entry into a building, structure, facility or grounds or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, facility or grounds, which when activated causes notification to be made directly or indirectly to the Marion Police Department or the Grant County Sheriff’s Department. For the purposes of this chapter, an alarm system shall not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a motor vehicle;
(2) An alarm designed so that the Marion Police Department or the Grant County Sheriff’s Department are not notified until after the occupants, an agent of the owner or lessee or an agent of an alarm system business has checked the alarm site and determined that the alarm was the result of criminal activity of the kind for which the alarm system was designed to give notice;
(3) An alarm which signals or alerts only the occupants of the premises protected by the alarm system;
(4) An alarm installed upon premises occupied by the United States, the State of Indiana or any political subdivision thereof.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALING DEVICE. Any device connected to an alarm system which automatically sends a prerecorded message or
coded signal to a law enforcement agency indicating the activation of the alarm system.
FALSE ALARM. An alarm eliciting a police response when the situation does not require police services. For the purposes of this chapter, this does not include alarms triggered by severe atmospheric conditions or other circumstances not reasonably under the control of the alarm user, installer or maintainer.
PERMIT HOLDER. The individual, corporation, partnership or other legal entity to whom an alarm system permit is issued.
(Ord. 30-1991, passed 11-6-1991)