For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "Alarm agent" means any person who is employed by an alarm business, either directly or indirectly, whose duties include altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, selling, serving, responding to or causing others to respond to an alarm device or activation.
(b) "Alarm system" shall have the same meaning as “automatic protection device”.
(c) "Alarm user" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility where an alarm system or automatic protection device is maintained, monitored or activated within the Village, except for alarms on motor vehicles. Also included are those local alarms which employ an audible signal, emit sounds and/or flash lights designed to alert or signal persons outside of the premises of an alarm activation.
(d) "Automatic protection device" means an electrically or battery-operated instrument composed of sensory apparatus and related hardware that automatically sends by direct connection, radio signal or otherwise, an alarm signal or pre-recorded voice alarm on receipt of a stimulus from the sensory apparatus that is has detected a physical force or condition inherently characteristic of an unauthorized intrusion, hazard or other emergency and to which the Police Department is expected to respond. Also included are devices which are stimulated by direct or indirect action by the alarm user or employees which initiate an alarm.
(e) "Emergency 9-1-1 line" means a telephone line leading directly into the communication center of the Police Department communications room that is used only to report emergency messages and signals on a person-to-person basis.
(f) "False alarm" means any notice transmitted verbally, electronically or by any other means from an alarm system or automatic protection device installed upon premises within the jurisdiction of responsibility for the Police Department, which results in a response by their personnel, and for which no emergency exists. The Police Department shall be deemed to have responded, for the purposes of this definition, if any equipment leaves its present location bound for the premises from which the false alarm has been transmitted, or if any personnel receive a dispatch from the communication center or leave their present locations bound for such premises, even if such response shall be terminated or limited in any way before arrival at the premises.
(g) "Local alarm" means a signaling system which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated on or in the premises within which the system is installed.
(h) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association or society, but such term does not include the Village.
(i) "Police Chief" means the Chief of the Police Department of the Village or his or her authorized representative.
(j) "Primary trunk line" means a telephone line or lines leading into the communication center of the Police Department for the purpose of handling emergency and administrative calls on a person-to-person basis.
(Ord. 775. Passed 1-25-93; Ord. 1606. Passed 1-25-16.)