For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(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 premises 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, leased, 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, and a response by the police, 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 are expected to respond.
(e) "Audible alarm" means an alarm system that actuated, generates an audible sound on the premises.
(f) "False alarm" means an alarm signal necessitating response by the police where an emergency situation does not exist. The definition excludes alarms caused by malfunctions, testing or repairing of the system, or the user acting under a sincere belief that a need exists requiring an emergency response.
(g) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
(Ord. 2003-2-6. Passed 3-4-03.)