As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm Administrator" means the Chief of Police or his designated agent.
(b) "Alarm notification" means any notification intended to summon, or that would reasonably be expected to summon, police or fire service of the City, which notification is the result of the activation or operation of an alarm system.
(c) "Alarm system" means any device or system that emits, transmits, or relays a signal intended to be used to summon, or that would reasonably be expected to summon, police or fire service of the City. "Alarm system" does not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a vehicle unless the vehicle is permanently located at a site; nor
(2) An alarm designed to alert only persons located inside a building or structure located on the premises of the alarm.
(d) "Alarm user" means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind of control of a building, structure, facility or any portion thereof, where an alarm system is located.
(e) "Direct connect alarm system" means any alarm system that is directly connected in any physical or technological manner whatsoever with any facility owned or operated by the City and which emits a direct signal to the City owned facility.
(f) "False alarm" means an activated alarm to which police and/or fire personnel respond and find no evidence of fire, smoke, burglary, vandalism, unauthorized intrusion, medical emergency, or any other valid reason for the request for police and/or fire services.
(Ord. 2006-110. Passed 9-14-06.)