(a) "Alarms business" means the business 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.
(b) "Alarm system" means any mechanical or electrical device which is designed or used for the detection of an unauthorized entry into a building, structure or facility or for alerting others of the commission of any unlawful act within a building, structure or facility, or both; or for the detection of fire, 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 designated or used to register alarms that are audible, visible or perceptible outside of the protected building, structure or facility are not included with this definition.
(c) "Alarm user" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind who owns or leases an alarm system as that term is described in subsection (b) hereof.
(d) "False alarm" means 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 of his employees or agents. Such terminology does not include alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other similarly violent conditions.
(e) "Issuing Authority" in the case of burglar alarm systems means the Chief of Police, and in the case of fire alarm systems, means the Fire Chief of the City.
(Ord. 860603-49. Passed 6-3-86.)