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, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, removing, or installing on or in any building, structure, or facility, any alarm system.
ALARM BUSINESS.
(1) The occupation 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.
(2) Exemption: the provisions of this section do not include a business which engages in the manufacture or sale of an alarm system unless that business services, installs, monitors, or responds to alarm systems.
ALARM SYSTEM. Any mechanical or electrical device which is designed or used for the detection of burglar, robbery, fire, or need for medical assistance within a building, structure, or facility or for alerting others to the commission of an unlawful act or hazard within a building, structure, or facility, or both; and
which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when actuated.
ALARM SYSTEMS include but are not limited to, direct dial telephone devices, audible alarms, and proprietor alarms. Devices which are not designed or used to register alarms that are audible, visible, or perceptible outside of the protected buildings, structure, or facility are not included within this definition, nor are auxiliary devices installed by the telephone company to protect telephone systems which might be damaged or disrupted by the use of an alarm system. An ALARM SYSTEM includes all of the necessary equipment designed and installed for the detection of burglary, robbery, fire, need for medical assistance, or other hazard in a single building, structure, or facility or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, or facility, or both.
APPELLANT. A person who perfects an appeal pursuant to this chapter.
APPLICANT. A person who files an application for a new or renewal permit as provided by this chapter.
AUDIBLE ALARM. A device designed for the detection of burglary, robbery, fire, or medical assistance on premises which generates an audible sound on the premises when it is actuated.
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR. The communications director of the city or his or her authorized representative.
DAY. Calendar day.
FALSE ALARMS. 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 his or her employees or agents. In addition, the use of an alarm to summon Police or Fire Department personnel for reasons other than those listed on alarm system permits will also be considered a FALSE ALARM. FALSE ALARMS shall not include alarms caused by electrical interruptions, floods, or other natural disasters.
PERMITTEE. Any person who shall be granted a permit as provided in this chapter and his or her agents and representatives.
PERSON. Natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
PROPRIETOR ALARM. An alarm which is not serviced by an alarm business.
REPORTING TELEPHONE. Any intrusion detection device which when activated, causes, either mechanically, electronically, or by any other automatic means, intrastate dialing of any telephone number and then transmits a prerecorded message.
SUBSCRIBER. Any person who purchases, leases, contracts for, or otherwise obtains an alarm system or contracts for the servicing or maintenance of an alarm system from an alarm business.
(1969 Code, § 15-187) (Ord. 1999-29, passed 8-23-1999)