For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALARM END USER. The person, firm, corporation or entity of any kind of control of any building, structure or facility who purchases, leases, contracts for or otherwise obtains an alarm system.
ALARM SYSTEM. A method of detecting and signaling the presence, entry or attempted entry or holdup into or on a protected premise. The term does not mean audible alarms from automobiles.
FALSE ALARM. Any signal, directly or indirectly from an alarm system, eliciting an urgent response by police when a situation requiring an urgent response does not, in fact, exist. The term does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm end user. The burden of proving that such alarm was not a FALSE ALARM shall be on the alarm end user.
(2011 Code, § 1.0607.2)