5.22.020: DEFINITIONS:
ALARM BUSINESS: The business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, removing, moving, installing, planning the installation or assisting in the installation of any alarm service.
ALARM SYSTEM: 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 peace officers are expected to respond.
ALARM USER: The person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization thereof of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility wherein an alarm system is maintained.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE: A device which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice message or code signal any emergency message indicating a need for emergency response.
COORDINATOR: The individual designated by the police department to issue permits and enforce the provisions of this section.
FALSE ALARM: An alarm signal eliciting a response by peace officers when a situation requiring a response by them or other emergency response unit in fact does not exist. It includes an alarm signal caused by conditions of nature which are normal for that area and subject to control by the alarm business operator or alarm user. "False alarm" does not include an alarm signal caused by extraordinarily violent conditions of nature not reasonably subject to control.
INTERCONNECT: To connect an alarm system, including an automatic dialing device, to a telephone line, either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a telephone, for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit a message upon the activation of the alarm system.
INTRUSION ALARM SYSTEM: An alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system.
LOCAL ALARM: Any noise making alarm device.
PHYSICAL DURESS SYSTEM: An alarm system signaling a robbery or other physical endangerment.
POLICE DEPARTMENT: The Taylorsville police department.
PRIMARY TRUNK LINE: A telephone line serving the Valley 911 system or other dispatch services that is designated to receive emergency calls.
VALLEY 911 AND POLICE DISPATCH: The governmental facilities used to receive emergency and general information from the public to be dispatched to the police department. (Ord. 05-14, 4-6-2005)