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, including an owner, corporate officer, or director, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing on any building, place, or premises, any police alarm system, central station system, or burglar alarm system.
ALARM BUSINESS. Shall include the business of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing, any police alarm system.
ALARM SYSTEM. A burglar alarm system, a central station system or a police alarm system.
ALARM USER. Any person as defined herein, using the services of a police alarm system, a central station system, or a burglar alarm system.
ANSWERING SERVICE. A telephone answering service which receives signals from any alarm system and thereafter immediately relays the message by live voice to the Communications Center of the Sheriff's Department.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE. Refers to an automated alarm system which sends a prerecorded voice message or coded signal indicating the existence of the emergency situation which the alarm system is designed to detect.
BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEM. An alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into an area protected by the system, but which system is not connected to a police alarm or central station system.
CENTRAL STATION. An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, and where guards are maintained continuously to investigate signals.
CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM. A system, in which the operation of electrical protection circuits and devices are signaled automatically to, recorded in, maintained, and supervised from, a central station having operators and security personnel on duty at all times.
DIRECT LINE. A telephone line leading directly from a central station to the Communications Center of the Wadena Sheriff's Department that is used only to report emergency signals on a person-to-person basis.
EXCESSIVE ALARMS. Ten or more false alarms signaled by any police alarm system within a calendar year.
FALSE ALARM. The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or the action(s) of the owner or lessee of an alarm system, or its employees or agents, to which a police officer has been dispatched, where an emergency situation does not exist. Such terminology does not include alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, lightning, power failure, damage to power lines, or other such severe weather conditions.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity.
POLICE ALARM SYSTEM. Any device designated for the detection of an unauthorized entry on premises or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act, or both, and, when actuated, emits a sound or transmits a signal or message, which system is connected to or monitored by the Wadena County Sheriff's Department who dispatches for the Menahga Police Department.
PRIMARY TRUNK LINE. Any telephone line leading directly into the Communications Center of the Sheriff's Department that is for the purpose of handling emergency calls on a person-to-person basis, and which is identified as such by a specific number included among the emergency numbers listed in the telephone directory issued by the telephone company(s) and covering the service area(s) within the Menahga Police Department jurisdiction.
PROPRIETARY SYSTEM. An alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory signals at a control center located within the 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 to the Sheriff's Department Communications Center, a central station, or answering service, it thereby becomes an ALARM SYSTEM as defined in this chapter.
SPECIAL TRUNK LINE. A telephone line leading directly into the Communications Center of the Sheriff's Department and having a primary purpose of handling emergency signals or messages originating, either directly or through a central location, from automatic dialing devices.
(Ord. 114, passed 3-8-04)