For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings set forth herein:
1. “Alarm business” means any person engaged in the business of installing, planning the installation, assisting in planning the installation, servicing, maintaining, monitoring, repairing, replacing, moving, or removing alarm systems in the City.
2. “Alarm coordinator” means the individual designated by the Chief of Police to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
3. “Alarm system” means any mechanism, equipment, or device which is designed to detect an unauthorized entry into any building or onto any property, or to direct attention to a robbery, burglary, or other emergency in progress, and to signal the above occurrences either by a local or audible alarm or by a silent or remote alarm. The following devices shall not constitute alarm systems within the meaning of this subsection:
A. Devices that do not register alarms that are audible, visible, or perceptible outside the protected premises.
B. Devices that are not installed, operated or used for the purpose of reporting an emergency to the City of Windsor Heights.
C. Alarm devices affixed to motor vehicles.
D. Alarm devices installed on a temporary basis by the Windsor Heights Police Department.
4. “Alarm user” means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility or portion thereof wherein an alarm system is maintained.
5. “Central station” means an office to which alarm systems are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, and where guards and/or service personnel are maintained continuously to investigate signals.
6. “City of Windsor Heights” means the sworn and non-sworn personnel assigned by the City to the Windsor Heights Police Department, members of the Windsor Heights Fire Department, and the contracted Communication Center that provides radio and alarm information to these departments.
7. “Emergency” means the commission or attempted commission of a robbery, burglary or other criminal action.
8. “False alarm” means the activation of an alarm system, which results in a response by the City of Windsor Heights, where an emergency does not exist and for which no evidence or indication of criminal activity or other hazard is discovered. False alarms include negligently or accidentally activated signals; signals which are the result of faulty, malfunctioning, or improperly installed or maintained equipment; signals which are purposely activated to summon emergency personnel in non-emergency situations; and alarms for which the actual cause is not determined. False alarms also include an alarm signal caused by conditions of nature that are normal for that area. False alarm does not include an alarm signal caused by extraordinarily violent conditions of nature, which cannot be reasonably anticipated by the alarm user.
9. “Local alarm” means any noise-making alarm device and any alarm which emits a visual signal, such as a strobe light.
10. “User instructions” means written instructions which every alarm business selling, leasing, or furnishing to any user an alarm system which is installed on premises located in the City shall furnish to such user and which instructions enable the user to operate the alarm system properly.