ALARM: Any mechanical or electronic device or assembly of equipment designed, intended or arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal or unpermitted entry, a fire, a need for emergency medical assistance or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which the village police department or other village employees or personnel are expected or may be reasonably anticipated to respond. Alarm shall include any fire alarms and emergency medical alarms that the village police department does respond to or assist with. Alarm shall also include any system that is either connected to an automatic notification system that contacts emergency dispatchers, or any system that, once triggered, emits notification to passersby, whether through flashing lights, the emission of sound, or other means.
ALARM COMPANY: Any firm, person, partnership, corporation or other legal entity that services, monitors or installs alarms within the corporate limits of the village.
ALARM USER: Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other legal entity of any kind which is in control of any item of tangible property, whether personal property or real property, including, but not limited to, automobiles, buildings, structures, facilities and other articles of property upon which an alarm is maintained.
FALSE ALARM: Shall describe any circumstance in which an alarm transmits a signal that is conveyed to the village through any means (including, but not limited to, a report of an activated alarm or the automated transmission of a notice to the village), or any other circumstance where an alarm is activated and any village personnel respond to said alarm, when a situation requiring such a response does not exist. False alarms also include alarms triggered by inadvertence, negligence or by an intentional act or omission of an alarm company, alarm user or other person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, false alarm shall not include:
A. Alarms caused by the installation, repair, maintenance or testing of an alarm or of electrical utility lines or other utilities servicing a premises equipped with an alarm if the village receives actual notice in advance of the activity in connection with the alarm. If alarm installation, repair, maintenance or testing is to occur on more than one date, the village must be notified on each date on which such activity is to occur, not less than one hour prior to the time at which such activity is to occur.
B. Alarms caused by an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence.
C. Alarms triggered by any reason, when the village is notified that the reported alarm is a false alarm prior to the time at which any village personnel undertake to begin a response to said alarm.
RESPONSE OR RESPOND: Any preparation or activity taken by any village personnel, including, but not limited to, the village police department, as the direct or proximate result of a report being received by the village, in any form, that an alarm has become activated within the corporate limits of the village. (Ord. 2010-07, 4-5-2010)