§ 38-61. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Alarm user means any person occupying or controlling the premises of an occupancy which is protected by an automatic fire detection system.

Automatic fire detection system means any system employing heat detectors, smoke detectors, flame detectors or waterflow alarm elements for the purpose of detecting and automatically transmitting an alarm of fire.

Central station system means a system or group of systems in which the operation of circuits and devices are signaled automatically to, recorded in, maintained and supervised from an approved central station having competent and experienced observers and operators who, upon receipt of a signal, notify the fire rescue department and take such other action as is required by the fire prevention code of the city.

Central station systems contractor means a person, firm or corporation whose principal business is the furnishing and maintaining of a supervised signaling service known as a central station system.

False alarm signal means the transmission of a fire alarm signal indicating a fire emergency requiring the immediate response of a fire rescue department engine company or companies when a fire emergency does not exist and no evidence thereof is apparent to the senior fire rescue department officer arriving on the scene.

Occupancy means any building or complex of buildings which because of the nature of the occupancy or size of the building is regulated by the fire prevention code of the city.

(Code 1979, § 11-131)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.