The following definitions shall be applicable for the purposes of this Chapter:
ALARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER: Any person, firm or corporation that sells, leases or installs automatic protection devices or signaling devices which transmit alarms upon receipt of a stimulus from a detection apparatus or a manually operated system.
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 or external forces not under the control of the owner, lessee or his employee or agent.
ALARM USER: Any person on whose premises an alarm system is maintained within the Village 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.
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 Department are expected to respond.
BURGLAR ALARM: An alarm that indicates that a person or persons are unlawfully entering on the alarm user’s property, and that does not require the police to respond in the most urgent fashion. (Ord. 4415, 9-15-08)
CENTRAL STATION: A facility whose prime purpose is to monitor incoming alarm signals twenty four (24) hours a day and relay the signal information to the appropriate authorities.
DIRECT LINE: A telephone line leading directly into the communications center of the Police 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 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. (Ord. 918, 2-12-79)
PANIC/HOLD UP ALARM: An alarm that indicates that the alarm user is in imminent danger and that requires police to respond in the most urgent fashion. (Ord. 4415, 9-15-08)
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, corporation, association or society, school district, County, unit of local government as defined in the Constitution of the State of Illinois, government agency and body politic, but such term does not include the Village of Orland Park. (Ord. 1193, 7-26-82)
POLICE CHIEF: The Chief of the Police Department of the Village, or his authorized representative.
PUBLIC TRUNKLINE: A telephone line leading into the communications center of the Police Department that is for the purpose of handling emergency and administrative calls on a person-to-person basis.
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.
VILLAGE: Village of Orland Park.