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Sec. 3-1. Definitions.

[The following words, terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:]

Alarm system means any burglar, fire, and/or holdup alarm system referred to in this chapter.

Burglar alarm system means an alarm signaling an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system.

Burglar, fire, and holdup alarm business means any business operated by a person for a profit which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, serving or responding to a burglar, fire, or holdup alarm system, or which causes any of these activities to take place.

Central station means any premises, usually maintained by an alarm company, equipped to receive and displace signals from intruder alarm systems.

Communicator panel means the device that receives alarm signals from subscribers whose lines terminate at the police/fire dispatch point.

Direct alarm means any police/fire alarm device running directly from a specific location to the police dispatch point, connected by leased telephone lines.

Fire alarm system means an alarm system signaling a fire on the premises protected by the system.

Holdup alarm system means an alarm system signaling a robbery or attempted robbery.

Indirect alarm means any police/fire alarm device running indirectly from a specific location to the police/fire dispatch point through an alarm company's receiving location to the police/fire dispatch unit. The alarm may be connected to the police/fire dispatch point by leased telephone lines or called in by the alarm company's receiving location personnel.

Interconnect means to connect an alarm system to a voice grade telephone line, either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a standard telephone, for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit an emergency message upon the activation of the alarm system.

Local alarm (audible type) means these alarms sound audibly on the premises whether or not connected as a "direct" or "central station" alarm.

Person means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.

Subscriber means a person who contracts for or receives service or maintenance with respect to any alarm system from an alarm business.

(Ord. No. 2806, § A, 2-10-98)

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