(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 any alarm system in or on any structure within the City.
(b) "Alarm business" means any full- or part-time business by a person 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 activated alarm system and a response by the Police and/or Fire Department resulting from windstorm or other severe weather condition, power outage, utility work, or any electrical or mechanical failure not resulting from improperly installed equipment.
(d) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, (mechanical, electrical or detecting device) arranged to signal the occurrence of an unauthorized entry, burglary, fire or other activity requiring urgent attention, and to which the Police and/or Fire Department is expected to respond, either as an automatic dialing device directly connected to the Police or Fire Department, or an audible alarm inside or outside the premises.
(e) "Annual" means per the calendar year.
(f) "Audible alarm" means an alarm system that, when actuated, generates an audible sound outside the premises.
(g) "City" means the City of Willoughby, Ohio.
(h) "False alarm" means the activation of a fire, burglary and/or robbery alarm for the purpose of summoning the Police Department and/or the Fire Department at a time when no fire, burglary and/or robbery is being committed or attempted on the premises. The definition excludes alarms caused by a user on the premises acting under a sincere belief that a need exists to call the Police or Fire Department.
(i) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, or unincorporated association.
(j) "Subscriber" means the person in control of premises wherein an alarm system is maintained.
(Ord. 1989-53. Passed 3-7-89.)