ALARM AGENT: Any person working for an alarm business.
ALARM BUSINESS: Any business operated by a person who engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, or responding to an emergency alarm system, or which causes any of these activities to take place.
ALARM USER: Any person or business on whose premises an alarm system is maintained other than alarm systems on a motor vehicle.
AUTOMATIC ALARM: An assembly of equipment arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which the police or fire department are expected to respond.
AUTOMATIC DIGITAL DIALING ALARM EQUIPMENT: An alarm system that has the capability of transmitting digital code signals to an alarm receiving board at the public safety answering point (PSAP) center. The alarm system uses existing telephone lines instead of a dedicated line.
AUTOMATIC VOICE DIALING ALARM EQUIPMENT: Refers to an alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connect or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect.
CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM: A system in which the operation of electrical protection circuits and devices are signaled automatically to, recorded in, maintained, and supervised from a place of business having trained operators in attendance at all times.
CONTRACTOR: Authorized village alarm contractor means the alarm company currently having a contract for provision and maintenance of the police and fire computerized alarm system, at Quadcom communication center.
EMERGENCY ANSWERING SERVICE: A telephone answering service providing among its services the job of receiving on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from alarm systems, and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice to the village communication center.
FALSE ALARM: The activation of an alarm system through mechanical or electronic failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his employees or agents, except that the following shall not be considered false alarms:
A. Alarms caused by the failure or malfunction of the equipment located at PSAP center.
B. Alarms occurring on a repeated basis without apparent cause within the first sixty (60) days after installation of the alarm detection system, and where continuous effort, in the sole opinion of the village alarm administrator, is being made jointly by the alarm user, the fire and inspection department, and any other concerned person to correct the malfunction expeditiously.
C. Alarms caused by an attempted or actual illegal entry, of which there is visible evidence.
D. Alarms caused by an on premises fire.
E. Alarms intentionally caused by a person acting under a reasonable belief that a need exists to call the police or fire department.
F. Alarms caused by hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, major floods, storms, or other natural disasters.
HARDWIRED ALARMS: An alarm system which has the capability of transmitting system signals to and receiving them at a remote location over dedicated lines.
MODIFIED CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM: An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits.
ON PREMISES ALARM: Alarm system that audibly announces an emergency condition at an individual or corporate establishment which may or may not be connected to any central alarm system.
PSAP: Public safety answering point.
(Ord. 14-30, 8-4-2014; amd. Ord. 2023-25, 8-21-2023)