(a) "Alarm system" means any device designed for the detection of a fire or an unauthorized entry on premises or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act or both and when actuated, emits a sound, transmits a signal or message.
(b) "Alarm business" means any person engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, place or premises.
(c) "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.
(d) "Audible alarm" means a service designed for the detection of fire or an unauthorized entry on premises; and when actuated, generates an audible sound on the premises.
(e) "Proprietor alarm" means an alarm which is not owned or serviced by an alarm business.
(f) "False alarm" means an alarm signal necessitating response by the Police Department where an emergency situation does not exist and where the alarm signal has been caused by the fault or negligence of the subscriber and/or owner.
(g) "Subscriber" means a person contracting with an alarm business for the leasing, servicing or maintaining of an alarm system.
(h) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
(Ord. 1248-1974. Passed 5-20-74.)