(a) “Alarm business” means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing or monitoring any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed or monitored any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
(b) “Alarm system” means any assembly or equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police or fire emergency personnel are expected to respond.
(c) “Alarm user” means a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility where an alarm system is maintained.
(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, for example, alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other similar violent conditions.
(e) “Local alarms” means those alarms which activate an audible signal within the proximity of the premises only.
(f) “Alarm Administrator” means the employee of the Police or Fire Department of the City whose responsibility is to coordinate the administration and documentation of alarm systems performance as it relates to the effective enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 78-2011. Passed 9-8-11.)