(a) "Alarm agent" means any person who is employed by an alarm business, either directly or indirectly, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing on any building, place or premise any alarm system.
(b) "Alarm 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, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, place or premise.
(c) "Alarm malfunction" means an alarm system activated, resulting from windstorm or other inclement weather condition, power outage or any electrical or mechanical failure, not resulting from improperly installed equipment.
(d) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an unauthorized entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which the Police and/or Fire Department are expected to respond, either as an automatic dialing device directly connected to the City Police and/or Fire Department or as an audible alarm outside the premises.
(e) "Audible alarm" means an alarm system, which when actuated, generates an audible sound on the premises.
(f) "False alarm" means an alarm signal necessitating response by the Police and/or Fire Department where an emergency situation does not exist. The definition excludes alarms caused by the subscriber acting under a sincere belief that a need exists requiring an emergency response from the Police and/or Fire Department.
(g) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
(h) "Subscriber" means the person in control of premises wherein an alarm system is maintained.
(Ord. 2001-66. Passed 5-21-01.)