§ 46-31. 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 business means any person engaged in the business of selling, leasing, monitoring, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm for any building, place or premises, or causing any alarm system to be sold, leased, monitored, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed in any building, place or premises. An alarm business shall have all licenses and permits required pursuant to this Code.

Alarm permit means a permit issued by the city allowing the operation of an alarm system within the city. Alarm permits are not transferable.

Alarm site means any building, structure, facility or premises, or portion thereof, wherein an alarm system is maintained.

Alarm system means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry, or other activity requiring urgent activity and to which the police department is expected to respond, but does not include fire alarms.

Alarm user means any person using an alarm system or occupying and controlling any premises or building, or a portion of any premises or building where an alarm system is maintained.

Automatic telephone dialing alarm system means an automatic dialing device, or an automatic telephone dialing alarm system, and includes any system which, upon being activated, automatically transmits by telephone or telephone line to the police department or police dispatcher a recorded message or code signal indicating a need for emergency response; or a system which, upon activation, connects to an answering service which transmits to the police department a need for emergency response.

False alarm means an alarm dispatch request where the responding police officer finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after completing an investigation of the alarm site. False alarms include alarms caused by user error, weather or power outages of less than two hours and/or technical or mechanical failure. Excluded are alarms caused by tornado, hurricane, fire, and telephone line trouble outside the alarm premises.

Nuisance alarm means an unwanted alarm system activation in which a sensor responds to a stimulus, but the stimulus is not a burglary or is an attempted crime which the property owner elects not to prosecute.

Person means an individual, partnership, association or corporation, or any other organization of any kind.

(Code 1979, § 24-51)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.