“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, removing, or installing on or in any building, structure, or facility, any alarm system.

“Alarm business” means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of: 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, structure, or facility.

Exemption: The provisions of this section do not include a business which engages in the manufacture or sale of any alarm system unless such business services, installs, monitors or responds to alarm systems at the protected premises.

“Alarm system” means any mechanical or electrical device which is designed or used for the detection of unauthorized entry into a building, structure or facility or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, or facility, or both; and which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when actuated and which is likely to result in a response by the Police Department. Alarm systems include, but are not limited to, direct dial telephone devices, audible alarms and proprietor alarms. Devices which are not designed or used to register alarms that are audible, visible or perceptible outside of the protected building, structure or facility are not included within this definition, nor are auxiliary devices installed by the telephone company to protect telephone company systems which might be damaged or disrupted by the use of an alarm system. An alarm system includes all of the necessary equipment designed and installed for the detection of an unauthorized entry into a single building, structure or facility or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, or facility, or both.

“Audible alarm” means a device designed for the detection of unauthorized entry on premises which generates an audible sound on the premises when it is actuated.

“False alarm” means the activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation or through the negligence of the owner or lessee or an alarm system, or their employees or agents. Such terminology does not include alarms caused by acts of God, electrical interruptions, flooding or other violent conditions, or acts of third parties caused by an illegal entry or attempted entry as determined by the responding Police Officer.

“Notice” means written notice, given by personal service upon the addressee, or given by United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the person to be notified at their last known address. Service of such notice shall be effective upon the completion of personal service, or upon the placing of the same in the custody of United States Postal Service.

“Person” means natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

“Proprietor alarm” means any alarm which is not serviced by an alarm business.

“Reporting telephone” means any intrusion detection device which, when activated, causes, either mechanically, electronically, or by any other automatic means, intrastate dialing of any telephone number and then transmits a prerecorded message.

“Subscriber” means any person who purchases, leases, contracts for or otherwise obtains an alarm system or contracts for the servicing or maintenance of an alarm system from an alarm business. (Ord. 1062 § 14, 2022; Ord. 1030 § 2(7), 2018; Ord. 603 § 1 (part), 1979)