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 violation 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 of 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 which transmit alarms upon receipt of a stimulus from a detection apparatus or manually operated system.
ALARM SYSTEM. An assembly of equipment and devices such as a solid state unit, arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police or fire departments are expected to respond. ALARM SYSTEM does not include an alarm installed on a vehicle. This section does include alarms with an externally audible alert.
ALARM USER. Any person on whose premises an alarm system is maintained within the county, except for alarm systems on motor vehicles. Also included are those systems which employ an audible signal emitting sounds or a flashing light or beacon designed to alert or signal persons outside the premises.
CENTRAL STATION. A facility whose purpose is to monitor incoming alarm signals 24 hours a day and relay the signal information to the appropriate authorities.
COUNTY. The County of Morgan, Indiana.
DIRECT LINE. A telephone line or other line leading directly into the communications center of the County Sheriff’s Department that is for use only to report signals on a person-to-person basis.
FALSE ALARMS. The activation of an alarm system caused by improper operation, negligence of the owner or lessee or his or her employee or agent or equipment malfunction.
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.
PUBLIC TRUNKLINE. A telephone line leading into the Sheriff’s Department Communications Center for the purpose of handling emergency and administrative calls on a person-to-person basis.
SHERIFF. The duly elected Sheriff of Morgan County or his or her authorized representative.
SIGNALING DEVICE. An electrically operated instrument which automatically sends visual and/or audible signals to be registered by indicators at a monitor panel at the receiving terminal or central station.
(Ord. 1-4-7.7, passed 3-17-2003)