As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm business" means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of 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 an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police, fire or rescue is expected to respond.
(c) "Alarm user" means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in possession or control of any building, structure or facility 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 of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or members of his or her family, employees or agents. Such terminology does not include, for example, alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other similar violent conditions.
(e) "Local alarms" means those alarms which activate an audible signal within the proximity of the premises only.
(f) "Alarm Administrator" means the employee of the Police Department of the Village whose responsibility is to coordinate the administration and documentation of alarm businesses and alarm systems performance as they relate to the effective enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 1987-49. Passed 11-18-87.)