(a) “False alarm” means an emergency alarm activated through inadvertence, negligence, or unintentional acts to which the Village Police or Fire Department responds, including malfunction of the alarm system. The definition excludes false alarms caused by: malfunction of the indicator at the Police Station; malfunction, testing or repairing of telephone equipment or lines; malfunction, testing or repairing of the normal power supply source for alarms installed in residential subdivisions; acts of God, such as earthquake, flood, windstorm, thunder or lightning; an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence; the user acting under a sincere belief that a need exists to call the Police or Fire Departments. If doubt exists as to the cause of a false alarm, the Chief of Police shall resolve it in favor of the alarm user. NOTE: Multiple alarms received before the system can be deactivated within a reasonable period of time shall be considered a single alarm.
(b) “Alarm system” means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry, or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police, fire or rescue is expected to respond.
(Ord. 1992-70. Passed 12-14-92.)